Higher-order relativistic corrections to gluon fragmentation into spin-triplet S-wave quarkonium

Aug, 2012
41 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 11 (2012) 020,
  • JHEP 07 (2023) 170 (erratum)
  • Published: Jul 21, 2023
e-Print:
Report number:
  • ANL-HEP-PR-12-65,
  • ANL-HEP-PR-12-65

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We compute the relative-order-v^4 contribution to gluon fragmentation into quarkonium in the 3S1 color-singlet channel, using the nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization approach. The QCD fragmentation process contains infrared divergences that produce single and double poles in epsilon in 4-2epsilon dimensions. We devise subtractions that isolate the pole contributions, which ultimately are absorbed into long-distance NRQCD matrix elements in the NRQCD matching procedure. The matching procedure involves two-loop renormalizations of the NRQCD operators. The subtractions are integrated over the phase space analytically in 4-2epsilon dimensions, and the remainder is integrated over the phase-space numerically. We find that the order-v^4 contribution is enhanced relative to the order-v^0 contribution. However, the order-v^4 contribution is not important numerically at the current level of precision of quarkonium-hadroproduction phenomenology. We also estimate the contribution to hadroproduction from gluon fragmentation into quarkonium in the 3PJ color-octet channel and find that it is significant in comparison to the complete next-to-leading-order-in-alpha_s contribution in that channel.
Note:
  • 41 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, minor corrections, version published in JHEP. Eq. (6.3) corrected. Incorporates erratum JHEP 07 (2023) 170 to JHEP 11 (2012) 020
  • quarkonium
  • fragmentation
  • NRQCD
  • relativistic corrections
  • quantum chromodynamics: nonrelativistic
  • gluon: fragmentation
  • correction: relativistic
  • regularization: dimensional
  • quarkonium: hadroproduction
  • phase space