Non-Relativistic Quantum Chromodynamics in Parton Showers
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2023-12-11 v1
Abstract
Measurements of quarkonia isolation in jets at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been shown to disagree with fixed-order non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics (NRQCD) calculations, even at higher orders. Calculations using the fragmenting jet function formalism are able to better describe data but cannot provide full event-level predictions. In this work we provide an alternative model via NRQCD production of quarkonia in a timelike parton shower. We include this model in the Pythia 8 event generator and validate our parton-shower implementation against analytic forms of the relevant fragmentation functions. Finally, we make inclusive predictions of quarkonia production for the decay of the standard-model Higgs boson.
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@article{arxiv.2312.05203,
title = {Non-Relativistic Quantum Chromodynamics in Parton Showers},
author = {Naomi Cooke and Philip Ilten and Leif Lönnblad and Stephen Mrenna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.05203},
year = {2023}
}