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Quarkonium Parton Shower in Herwig 7

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-08-11 v1

Abstract

We present the implementation of a fully automated quarkonium parton shower in Herwig 7, based on non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorisation with spin-colour projections. The framework systematically incorporates colour-singlet and colour-octet production mechanisms, gluon fragmentation, and diquark production processes. Perturbative short-distance coefficients are combined with non-perturbative NRQCD matrix elements to simulate heavy-quark bound state formation. Splitting functions for SS-, PP- and DD-wave states are explicitly derived and integrated into the angular-ordered shower evolution. The implementation preserves spin correlations and polarisation effects while accurately accounting for feed-down contributions. Results demonstrate improved agreement with the existing LHC data. This quarkonium parton shower will become publicly available with the release of Herwig-7.4.0.

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@article{arxiv.2508.06307,
  title  = {Quarkonium Parton Shower in Herwig 7},
  author = {M. R. Masouminia and P. Richardson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.06307},
  year   = {2025}
}

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39 pages, 12 figures and 5 tables

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