Factorization in exclusive quarkonium production
Abstract
We present factorization theorems for two exclusive heavy-quarkonium production processes: production of two quarkonia in e^+e^- annihilation and production of a quarkonium and a light meson in B-meson decays. We describe the general proofs of factorization and supplement them with explicit one-loop analyses, which illustrate some of the features of the soft-gluon cancellations. We find that violations of factorization are generally suppressed relative to the factorized contributions by a factor v^2m_c/Q for each S-wave charmonium and a factor m_c/Q for each L-wave charmonium with L>0. Here, v is the velocity of the heavy quark or antiquark in the quarkonium rest frame, Q=sqrt{s} for e^+e^- annihilation, Q=m_B for B-meson decays, sqrt{s} is the e^+e^- center-of-momentum energy, m_c is the charm-quark mass, and m_B is the B-meson mass. There are modifications to the suppression factors if quantum-number restrictions apply for the specific process.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1003.0061,
title = {Factorization in exclusive quarkonium production},
author = {Geoffrey T. Bodwin and Xavier Garcia i Tormo and Jungil Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.0061},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
69 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables. v2: Version published in Physical Review D