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Heavy quarkonium production and polarization

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-03-12 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present a perturbative QCD factorization formalism for the production of heavy quarkonia of large transverse momentum pTp_T at collider energies, which includes both the leading power (LP) and next-to-leading power (NLP) contributions to the cross section in the mQ2/pT2m_Q^2/p_T^2 expansion for heavy quark mass mQm_Q. We estimate fragmentation functions in the non-relativistic QCD formalism, and reproduce the bulk of the large enhancement found in explicit NLO calculations in the color singlet model. Heavy quarkonia produced from NLP channels prefer longitudinal polarization.

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@article{arxiv.1109.1520,
  title  = {Heavy quarkonium production and polarization},
  author = {Zhong-Bo Kang and Jian-Wei Qiu and George Sterman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.1520},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

latex, 11 pages, 4 figures