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On the high-energy instability of quarkonium production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-09-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The perturbative instability of NLO collinear factorisation (CF) computations of pTp_T-integrated cross sections of heavy quarkonium production at high hadronic or photon-hadron collision energy is discussed. We resolve this problem via the matching of NLO CF computation with the resummation of higher-order corrections αsnlnn1(s^/M2)\propto \alpha_s^n \ln^{n-1}(\hat{s}/M^2) at high partonic center of mass energies s^M2\hat{s}\gg M^2. The resummation is performed in the Doubly-Logarithmic Approximation(DLA) of High-Energy Factorisation(HEF) formalism. We also report the results of the first computation of one-loop corrections to impact-factors involving heavy quark-antiquark pair in the intermediate states considered in the Non-Relativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorisation formalism for quarkonium production: QQˉ[1S0[8]]Q\bar{Q}\left[{}^1S_0^{[8]} \right] and QQˉ[1S0[1]]Q\bar{Q}\left[{}^1S_0^{[1]} \right]. These results are necessary for the extension of our resummation formalism beyond DLA.

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@article{arxiv.2309.09608,
  title  = {On the high-energy instability of quarkonium production},
  author = {Maxim Nefedov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.09608},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Contribution to the proceedings of 26th International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD23), 10-14 july 2023, Montpellier - FR; 7 pages, 5 figures