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Comprehensive studies of $\Upsilon$ inclusive production in $Z$ boson decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-07-14 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we present a comprehensive study of Υ\Upsilon inclusive production in ZZ boson decay, including the first complete next-to-leading-order calculations of the color-octet (CO) contributions. With the inclusion of the newly-calculated remarkable QCD corrections, the CO processes exhibit crucially phenomenological influence on the existing predictions built on the color-singlet mechanism. We also include the exhaustive evaluations of the feed-down contributions, which remained ignored in the literature, and find them to be considerable. Summing up all the contributions, the BZΥ(nS)+X\mathcal{B}_{Z \to \Upsilon(nS)+X} still notably undershoot the data released by the L3 Collaboration.

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@article{arxiv.2104.08711,
  title  = {Comprehensive studies of $\Upsilon$ inclusive production in $Z$ boson decay},
  author = {Zhan Sun and Hong Fei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08711},
  year   = {2021}
}

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17 pages, 6 figures, and 4 tables; accepted for publication in JHEP