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Spin correlations and velocity-scaling in color-octet NRQCD matrix elements
We compute spin-dependent decay matrix elements for S-wave charmonium and
bottomonium in lattice nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics (NRQCD).
Particular emphasis is placed upon the color-octet matrix elements, since the
corresponding production matrix elements are expected to appear in the dominant
contributions to the production cross sections at large transverse momenta. We
use three slightly different versions of the heavy-quark lattice Green's
functions in order to minimize the contributions that scale as powers of the
ultraviolet cutoff. The lattice matrix elements that we calculate obey the
hierarchy that is suggested by the velocity-scaling rules of NRQCD.Comment: 25 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, further discussion of effective
lattice cutoffs and uncertainties, additional minor revisions, version to be
published in Phys. Rev.
Lattice Calculation of Quarkonium Decay Matrix Elements
We calculate the NRQCD matrix elements for the decays of the lowest-lying S-
and P-wave states of charmonium and bottomonium in quenched lattice QCD. We
also compute the one-loop relations between the lattice and continuum matrix
elements.Comment: 10 pages, LaTeX. Talk presented at the Quarkonium Physics Workshop,
University of Illinois, Chicago, June 13-15, 199
Improved determination of color-singlet nonrelativistic QCD matrix elements for S-wave charmonium
We present a new computation of S-wave color-singlet nonrelativistic QCD
matrix elements for the J/psi and the eta_c. We compute the matrix elements of
leading order in the heavy-quark velocity v and the matrix elements of relative
order v^2. Our computation is based on the electromagnetic decay rates of the
J/psi and the eta_c and on a potential model that employs the Cornell
potential. We include relativistic corrections to the electromagnetic decay
rates, resumming a class of corrections to all orders in v, and find that they
significantly increase the values of the matrix elements of leading order in v.
This increase could have important implications for theoretical predictions for
a number of quarkonium decay and production processes. The values that we find
for the matrix elements of relative order v^2 are somewhat smaller than the
values that one obtains from estimates that are based on the velocity-scaling
rules of nonrelativistic QCD.Comment: 31 pages, minor corrections, version published in Phys. Rev.
The Color-Octet intrinsic charm in and decays
Color-octet mechanism for the decay B\to \eta^\prime X is proposed to explain
the large branching ratio of Br(B\to \eta^\prime X)\sim 1\times 10^{-3}
recently announced by CLEO. We argue that the inclusive \eta^\prime production
in B decays may dominantly come from the Cabbibo favored b\to (\bar c c)_8s
process where \bar c c pair is in a color-octet configuration, and followed by
the nonperturbative transition (\bar c c)_8\to \eta^\prime X. The color-octet
intrinsic charm component in the higher Fock states of \eta^\prime is crucial
and is induced by the strong coupling of \eta^\prime to gluons via QCD axial
anomaly.Comment: 9 pages, RevTex, 1 PS figur
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A lattice formulation of chiral gauge theories
We present a method for implementing gauge theories of chiral fermions on the lattice. Discussed topics include: the lattice as a UV regulator, a chiral QED model, modification of the fermion determinant, large gauge-field momenta, and a non-perturbative problem
Photoproduction of h_c
Using the NRQCD factorization formalism, we calculate the total cross section
for the photoproduction of h_c mesons. We include color-octet and color-singlet
mechanisms as well as next-to-leading order perturbative QCD corrections. The
theoretical prediction depends on two nonperturbative matrix elements that are
not well determined from existing data on charmonium production. For reasonable
values of these matrix elements, the cross section is large enough that the h_c
may be observable at the E831 experiment and at the HERA experiments.Comment: Revtex file 8 pages, 1 figure. Macros needed: epsf,floats,rotate
Minor typos changed, and reference added. Version to be published in
Phys.Rev.
Universality of soft and collinear factors in hard-scattering factorization
Universality in QCD factorization of parton densities, fragmentation
functions, and soft factors is endangered by the process dependence of the
directions of Wilson lines in their definitions. We find a choice of directions
that is consistent with factorization and that gives universality between
e^+e^- annihilation, semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering, and the
Drell-Yan process. Universality is only modified by a time-reversal
transformation of the soft function and parton densities between Drell-Yan and
the other processes, whose only effect is the known reversal of sign for T-odd
parton densities like the Sivers function. The modifications of the definitions
needed to remove rapidity divergences with light-like Wilson lines do not
affect the results.Comment: 4 pages. Extra references. Text and references as in published
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