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Ultrasoft contribution to quarkonium production and annihilation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We compute the third-order correction to electromagnetic S-wave quarkonium production and annihilation rates due to the emission and absorption of an ultrasoft gluon. Our result completes the analysis of the non-relativistic quarkonium bound-state dynamics in the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order. The impact of the ultrasoft correction on the Upsilon(1S) leptonic width and the top quark-antiquark threshold production cross section is estimated.

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@article{arxiv.0706.2733,
  title  = {Ultrasoft contribution to quarkonium production and annihilation},
  author = {M. Beneke and Y. Kiyo and A. A. Penin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.2733},
  year   = {2008}
}

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10 pages