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HELAC-Onia: an automatic matrix element generator for heavy quarkonium physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-08-28 v3

Abstract

By the virtues of the Dyson-Schwinger equations, we upgrade the published code \mtt{HELAC} to be capable to calculate the heavy quarkonium helicity amplitudes in the framework of NRQCD factorization, which we dub \mtt{HELAC-Onia}. We rewrote the original \mtt{HELAC} to make the new program be able to calculate helicity amplitudes of multi P-wave quarkonium states production at hadron colliders and electron-positron colliders by including new P-wave off-shell currents. Therefore, besides the high efficiencies in computation of multi-leg processes within the Standard Model, \mtt{HELAC-Onia} is also sufficiently numerical stable in dealing with P-wave quarkonia (e.g. hc,b,χc,bh_{c,b},\chi_{c,b}) and P-wave color-octet intermediate states. To the best of our knowledge, it is a first general-purpose automatic quarkonium matrix elements generator based on recursion relations on the market.

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@article{arxiv.1212.5293,
  title  = {HELAC-Onia: an automatic matrix element generator for heavy quarkonium physics},
  author = {Hua-Sheng Shao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.5293},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Published version. 24 pages,1 figure, 7 tables, HELAC-Onia is available from http://helac-phegas.web.cern.ch/helac-phegas

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