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Two-loop form factors for $P$-wave quarkonium production and decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-06-10 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present the analytical results for the two-loop form factors needed for χQ,J\chi_{Q,J} production and decay. We consider the two-loop corrections to the process γγ3PJ[1]\gamma \gamma \leftrightarrow {^3 P_J^{[1]}}, that has been known only numerically before, and the processes gg3PJ[1]gg \leftrightarrow {^3 P_J^{[1]}}, γg3PJ[8]\gamma g \leftrightarrow {^3 P_J^{[8]}} and gg3PJ[8]gg \leftrightarrow {^3 P_J^{[8]}}, which have not been computed before. We observe that the NRQCD pole structure of the two-loop amplitude in the gggg channel is more involved for the spin-triplet PP-wave case than for the pseudo-scalar SS-wave case. It involves in addition to the standard Coulomb singularity also a new singularity whose cancellation requires the inclusion of the gg3S1[8]gg \leftrightarrow {^3S_1^{[8]}} form factor. We give the high precision numerical results for the hard functions that can be used to compute χQ,J\chi_{Q,J} production and decay up to NNLO accuracy.

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@article{arxiv.2501.04188,
  title  = {Two-loop form factors for $P$-wave quarkonium production and decay},
  author = {Melih A. Ozcelik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04188},
  year   = {2025}
}

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68 pages, 2 figures, v2: version published in JHEP