English
Related papers

Related papers: Study on $\eta_{c2}(\eta_{b2})$ electromagnetic de…

200 papers

We present a next-to-leading-order (NLO) analysis of the rare radiative decay $\eta_b \to J/\psi\gamma$, a flavor-changing transition between bottomonium and charmonium, within the framework of non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-17 Hao Yang , Lin Zuo , Bingwei Long

In the paper, we calculate the fragmentation functions for $c \to \eta_c$ and $b \to \eta_b$ up to next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD accuracy. The ultraviolet divergences in the real corrections are removed through operator renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Xu-Chang Zheng , Xing-Gang Wu , Xu-Dong Huang

We show that the twist-2 light-cone wave-functions of eta_c and J/\psi can be factorized with nonrelativistic QCD(NRQCD) at one-loop level, where the nonperturbative effects are represented by NRQCD matrix elements. The factorization is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. P. Ma , Z. G. Si

We discuss the partial width of the pseudoscalar charmonium state eta_c and bottomonium state eta_b into two photons. Predictions from potential models are examined and compared with experimental values for the eta_c case. Through the NRQCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicola Fabiano , Giulia Pancheri

We present an exploratory lattice study for the two-photon decay of $\eta_c$ using $N_f=2$ twisted mass lattice QCD gauge configurations generated by the European Twisted Mass Collaboration. Two different lattice spacings of $a=0.067$fm and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-07-20 Ting Chen , Ying Chen , Ming Gong , Yu-Hong Lei , Ning Li , Chuan Liu , Yu-Bin Liu , Zhaofeng Liu , Jian-Ping Ma , Wei-Feng Qiu , Zhan-Lin Wang , Jian-Bo Zhang

The two photon transition of $\bar{c}c$ quarkonia are studied within a covariant approach based on the consistent truncation scheme of the quantum chromodynamics Dyson-Schwinger equation for the quark propagator and the Bethe--Salpeter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-08 Jing Chen , Minghui Ding , Lei Chang , Yu-xin Liu

We investigate the processes $e^+e^-\to \eta_c+\gamma$ and $e^+e^-\to \chi_{cJ}+\gamma$ at B factories within the NRQCD factorization framework, computing the corresponding helicity amplitudes through $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^2)$. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-05 Cong Li , Wen-Long Sang , Hong-Fei Zhang

By employing the perturbative QCD (pQCD) factorization approach, we calculated some important next-to-leading-order(NLO) contributions to the two-body charmless hadronic decays $B^+ \to \rho^+ \eta^{(\prime)}$ and $B^0 \to \rho^0(\omega,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-07-18 Zhi-Qing Zhang , Zhen-Jun Xiao

By neglecting the relative quark momenta in the propagator term, the two-photon and two-gluon decay amplitude of heavy quarkonia states can be written as a local heavy quark field operator matrix element which could be obtained from other…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-01 T. N. Pham

In this paper, we study the non-leptonic $B_{c}\to J/\psi V$ and $B_{c}^{*}\to\eta_{c}V$~$(V=\rho\,,K^{*})$ weak decays in the framework of QCD factorization. In the evaluation, the form factors are calculated by using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 Qin Chang , Li-Li Chen , Shuai Xu

We cure the perturbative instability of the total-inclusive-photoproduction cross sections of vector $S$-wave quarkonia observed at high photon-proton-collision energies ($\sqrt{s_{\gamma p}}$) in Next-to-Leading Order (NLO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-11 Jean-Philippe Lansberg , Maxim Nefedov , Melih A. Ozcelik

We analyze the first measurement of $\eta_c$ production, performed by the LHCb Collaboration, in the nonrelativistic-QCD (NRQCD) factorization framework at next-to-leading order (NLO) in the strong-coupling constant $\alpha_s$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-11 Mathias Butenschoen , Zhi-Guo He , Bernd A. Kniehl

We analyze the polarization observables of J/psi photoproduction at next-to-leading order (NLO) within the factorization formalism of nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics (NRQCD). This is the first NLO study of heavy-quarkonium…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Mathias Butenschoen , Bernd A. Kniehl

We study the radiative leptonic $B_c\to \gamma\ell\bar\nu$ decays in the nonrelativistic QCD effective field theory, and consider a fast-moving photon. As a result the interactions with the heavy quarks can be integrated out, and thus we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-14 Wei Wang , Rui-Lin Zhu

In this note, we present the result for the QCD corrections to the decay of the Higgs boson into two photons in the large-$\beta_0$ limit of QCD, providing the first two terms in the heavy-top expansion. From our results, one can easily…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-08 D. Boito , G. das Neves , J. Piclum

The decay widths of top quark to S-wave $b\bar{c}$ and $b\bar{b}$ bound states are evaluated at the next-to-leading(NLO) accuracy in strong interaction. Numerical calculation shows that the NLO corrections to these processes are remarkable.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Peng Sun , Li-Ping Sun , Cong-Feng Qiao

We derive the imaginary part of the potential NRQCD Hamiltonian up to order 1/m^4, when the typical momentum transfer between the heavy quarks is of the order of Lambda_{QCD} or greater, and the binding energy E much smaller than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Nora Brambilla , Dolors Eiras , Antonio Pineda , Joan Soto , Antonio Vairo

The decay Delta^+ --> p gamma is studied in the 1/N_c expansion of QCD. The ratio of the helicity amplitudes is determined to be A_{3/2}/A_{1/2} = \sqrt{3} + O(1/N_c^2). Equivalently, the ratio E2/M1 of the multipole amplitudes is predicted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Jenkins , X. Ji , A. V. Manohar

The next-to-leading order QCD corrections for $\chi_{bJ}$, the p-wave bottomonium, to $J/\psi$ pair decay processes are evaluated utilizing NRQCD factorization formalism. The scale dependence of $\chi_{b2}\rightarrow J/\psi J/\psi$ process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Long-Bin Chen , Cong-Feng Qiao

The next-to-leading order (NLO) ($\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3)$) corrections for gluon fragmentation functions to a heavy quark-antiquark pair in ${^{3}\hspace{-0.6mm}P_{J}^{[1,8]}}$ states are calculated within the NRQCD factorization. We use…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Peng Zhang , Ce Meng , Yan-Qing Ma , Kuang-Ta Chao