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Gluon fragmentation into ${^{3}\hspace{-0.6mm}P_{J}^{[1,8]}}$ quark pair and test of NRQCD factorization at two-loop level

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-11-11 v1

Abstract

The next-to-leading order (NLO) (O(αs3)\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3)) corrections for gluon fragmentation functions to a heavy quark-antiquark pair in 3PJ[1,8]{^{3}\hspace{-0.6mm}P_{J}^{[1,8]}} states are calculated within the NRQCD factorization. We use integration-by-parts reduction and differential equations to semi-analytically calculate fragmentation functions in full-QCD, and find that infrared divergences can be absorbed by the NRQCD long distance matrix elements. Thus, the NRQCD factorization conjecture is verified at two-loop level via a physical process, which is free of artificial ultraviolet divergences. Through matching procedure, infrared-safe short distance coefficients and O(αs2)\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^2) perturbative NRQCD matrix elements O3PJ[1,8](3S1[8])NLO\langle{\mathcal O}^{{^{3}\hspace{-0.6mm}P_{J}^{[1,8]}}}({^{3}\hspace{-0.6mm}S_{1}^{[8]}})\rangle_{\mathrm{NLO}} are obtained simultaneously. The NLO short distance coefficients are found to have significant corrections comparing with the LO ones.

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@article{arxiv.2011.04905,
  title  = {Gluon fragmentation into ${^{3}\hspace{-0.6mm}P_{J}^{[1,8]}}$ quark pair and test of NRQCD factorization at two-loop level},
  author = {Peng Zhang and Ce Meng and Yan-Qing Ma and Kuang-Ta Chao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.04905},
  year   = {2020}
}

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19 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1810.07656