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One-loop impact factors for heavy quarkonium production: $S$-wave case

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-10-25 v3

Abstract

With the aim to extend the study of inclusive heavy quarkonium production at forward rapidities with the resummation of high partonic center-of-momentum-energy logarithms beyond Leading Logarithmic Approximation (LLA), the explicit analytic results for one-loop corrections to the following impact factors had been obtained: γRQQˉ[1S0[8]]\gamma R \to Q\bar{Q}\left[^1S_0^{[8]} \right], gRQQˉ[1S0[1]]g R \to Q\bar{Q}\left[^1S_0^{[1]} \right], gRQQˉ[1S0[8]]gR\to Q\bar{Q}\left[ ^1S_0^{[8]} \right] and gRQQˉ[3S1[8]]gR\to Q\bar{Q}\left[ ^3S_1^{[8]}\right], with RR being the Reggeized gluon and QQ is the heavy quark. The computation is done in the framework of Lipatov's gauge-invariant EFT for Multi-Regge processes in QCD with the tilted-Wilson-line regularisation for rapidity divergences. As expected, only single-logarithmic rapidity divergence proportional to the one-loop Regge trajectory of a gluon remains in the final result for impact-factors. Numerical comparison with Regge limits (s/(t)1s/(-t) \gg 1) of one-loop QCD amplitudes, described in the paper, provides a strong cross-check of obtained results. The relations of obtained results with other regularisation schemes for rapidity divergences used in low-xx physics, such as BFKL scheme, High-Energy Factorisation (HEF) scheme and shockwave scheme, are given.

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@article{arxiv.2408.06234,
  title  = {One-loop impact factors for heavy quarkonium production: $S$-wave case},
  author = {Maxim Nefedov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.06234},
  year   = {2024}
}

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42 pages, 11 figures, auxiliary files with results are in the directory "results" in the sources of the paper; Fig. 1 and 11 added, submitted to JHEP