Automatic generation of quarkonium amplitudes in NRQCD

Dec, 2007
17 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 02 (2008) 102
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CP3-07-31

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present a simple method to automatically evaluate arbitrary tree-level amplitudes involving the production or decay of a heavy quark pair QQbar in a generic {2S+1}L_J^[1,8] state, i.e., the short distance coefficients appearing in the NRQCD factorization formalism. Our approach is based on extracting the relevant contributions from the open heavy quark-antiquark amplitudes through an expansion with respect to the quark-antiquark relative momentum and the application of suitable color and spin projectors. To illustrate the capabilities of the method and its implementation in MadGraph a few applications to quarkonium collider phenomenology are presented.
Note:
  • 17 pages, 7 figures
  • QCD
  • Hadronic Colliders
  • quantum chromodynamics: nonrelativistic
  • quarkonium: heavy
  • amplitude analysis
  • tree approximation
  • quantum chromodynamics: factorization
  • photon photon: interaction
  • J/psi(3100): photoproduction
  • electron positron: annihilation