326 research outputs found
Gluon fragmentation into quarkonium at next-to-leading order using FKS subtraction
We present the calculation at next-to-leading order (NLO) in alpha_s of the
fragmentation function of a gluon into heavy quarkonium in the color-octet
spin-singlet S-wave channel. To calculate the real NLO corrections, we adapt a
subtraction scheme introduced by Frixione, Kunszt, and Signer. Ultraviolet and
infrared divergences in the real NLO corrections are calculated analytically by
evaluating the phase-space integrals of the subtraction terms using dimensional
regularization. The subtracted phase-space integrals are then evaluated in 4
space-time dimensions. The divergences in the virtual NLO corrections are also
calculated analytically. After renormalization, all the divergences cancel. The
NLO corrections significantly increase the fragmentation probability for a
gluon into the spin-singlet quarkonium states eta_c and eta_b.Comment: 52 pages, 6 figure
Parton Model Calculation of Inclusive Charm Production by a Low-energy Antiproton Beam
The cross section for inclusive charm production by a low-energy antiproton
beam is calculated using the parton model and next-to-leading order
perturbative QCD. For an antiproton beam with a momentum of 15 GeV, the charm
cross section at next-to-leading order in the QCD coupling constant changes by
more than an order of magnitude as the charm quark mass is varied from 1.3 to
1.7 GeV. The variations can be reduced by demanding that the same value of the
charm quark mass give the measured charm cross sections for fixed-target
experiments with a proton beam. The resulting estimate for the charm cross
section from a low-energy antiproton beam is large enough to allow the study of
charm meson mixing.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
Charm-pair Rescattering Mechanism for Charmonium Production in High-energy Collisions
A new mechanism for heavy quarkonium production in high-energy collisions
called the "s-channel cut" was proposed in 2005 by Lansberg, Cudell, and
Kalinovsky. We identify this mechanism physically as the production of a heavy
quark and anti-quark that are on-shell followed by their rescattering to
produce heavy quarkonium. We point out that in the NRQCD factorization
formalism this rescattering mechanism is a contribution to the color-singlet
model term at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbation theory. Its leading
contribution to the production rate can be calculated without introducing any
additional phenomenological parameters. We calculate the charm-pair
rescattering (or s-channel cut) contribution to the production of J/psi at the
Tevatron and compare it to estimates by Lansberg et al. using phenomenological
models. This contribution competes with the leading-order term in the
color-singlet model at large transverse momentum but is significantly smaller
than the next-to-leading-order term. We conclude that charm-pair rescattering
is not a dominant mechanism for charmonium production in high-energy
collisions.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figure
Using Line Shapes to Discriminate between Binding Mechanisms for the X(3872)
We construct line shapes for the X(3872) that generalize the Flatte and
zero-range line shapes that have been considered previously. These line shapes
are associated with scattering amplitudes that are exactly unitary for real
values of the interaction parameters and can be derived from a renormalizable
quantum field theory. The new line shapes can be used to discriminate between
the alternative binding mechanisms in which the X(3872) is generated either
dynamically by charm meson interactions or by a resonance near the D^{*0}
Dbar^0 threshold. If the resonance is identified with the P-wave charmonium
state chi'_{c1}, the interaction parameters can be constrained by using
charmonium phenomenology. We analyze data on the X(3872) and also data from the
Belle and Babar Collaborations on the invariant mass distribution of the charm
mesons from the decay B -> K + D^{*0} Dbar^0 up to 4000 MeV. Our analysis is
compatible with the mechanism for the X(3872) being either a fine-tuning of
charm meson interactions or the fine-tuning of the chi'_{c1} to the D^{*0}
Dbar^0 threshold. In particular, the data do not exclude a separate chi'_{c1}
resonance between the D^{*+} D^- threshold and 4000 MeV.Comment: 50 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Version published in Physical Review
Production of the X(3872) at the Tevatron and the LHC
We predict the differential cross sections for production of the X(3872) at
the Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider from both prompt QCD mechanisms and
from decays of b hadrons. The prompt cross section is calculated using the
NRQCD factorization formula. Simplifying assumptions are used to reduce the
nonperturbative parameters to a single NRQCD matrix element that is determined
from an estimate of the prompt cross section at the Tevatron. For X(3872) with
transverse momenta greater than about 4 GeV, the predicted cross section is
insensitive to the simplifying assumptions. We also discuss critically a recent
analysis that concluded that the prompt production rate at the Tevatron is too
large by orders of magnitude for the X(3872) to be a weakly-bound charm-meson
molecule. We point out that if charm-meson rescattering is properly taken into
account, the upper bound is increased by orders of magnitude and is compatible
with the observed production rate at the Tevatron.Comment: 29 pages, 5 figure
Automation of the matrix element reweighting method
Matrix element reweighting is a powerful experimental technique widely
employed to maximize the amount of information that can be extracted from a
collider data set. We present a procedure that allows to automatically evaluate
the weights for any process of interest in the standard model and beyond. Given
the initial, intermediate and final state particles, and the transfer functions
for the final physics objects, such as leptons, jets, missing transverse
energy, our algorithm creates a phase-space mapping designed to efficiently
perform the integration of the squared matrix element and the transfer
functions. The implementation builds up on MadGraph, it is completely
automatized and publicly available. A few sample applications are presented
that show the capabilities of the code and illustrate the possibilities for new
studies that such an approach opens up.Comment: 41 pages, 21 figure
Automatic spin-entangled decays of heavy resonances in Monte Carlo simulations
We present a general method that allows one to decay narrow resonances in Les
Houches Monte Carlo events in an efficient and accurate way. The procedure
preserves both spin correlation and finite width effects to a very good
accuracy, and is therefore particularly suited for the decay of resonances in
production events generated at next-to-leading-order accuracy. The method is
implemented as a generic tool in the MadGraph framework, giving access to a
very large set of possible applications. We illustrate the validity of the
method and the code by applying it to the case of single top and top quark pair
production, and show its capabilities on the case of top quark pair production
in association with a Higgs boson.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures, published versio
Unravelling via the matrix element method
Associated production of the Higgs boson with a top-antitop pair is a key
channel to gather further information on the nature of the newly discovered
boson at the LHC. Experimentally, however, its observation is very challenging
due to the combination of small rates, difficult multi-jet final states and
overwhelming backgrounds. In the Standard Model the largest number of events is
expected when h->bb, giving rise to a WWbbbb signature, deluged in tt+jets. A
promising strategy to improve the sensitivity is to maximally exploit the
theoretical information on the signal and background processes by means of the
matrix element method. We show how, despite the complexity of the final state,
the method can be efficiently applied to discriminate the signal against
combinatorial and tt+jets backgrounds. Remarkably, we find that a moderate
integrated luminosity in the next LHC run will be enough to make the signature
involving both W's decaying leptonically as sensitive as the single-lepton one.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
J/psi production at sqrt(s)=1.96 and 7 TeV: Color-Singlet Model, NNLO* and polarisation
We study J/psi production in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 and 7 TeV using
the Colour-Singlet Model (CSM), including next-to-leading order (NLO)
corrections and dominant alphaS^5 contributions (NNLO*). We find that the CSM
reproduces the existing data if the upper range of the NNLO* is near the actual
--but presently unknown-- NNLO. The direct yield polarisation for the NLO and
NNLO* is increasingly longitudinal in the helicity frame when P_T gets larger.
Contrary to what is sometimes claimed in the literature, the prompt J/psi yield
polarisation in the CSM is compatible with the experimental data from the CDF
collaboration, when one combines the direct yield with a data-driven range for
the polarisation of J/psi from chi(c).Comment: Contributed to the 22nd International Conference On
Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2011), Annecy,
France, May 23 - 28, 2011. 4 pages, 4 figures, uses iopams.sty, iopart12.clo,
iopart.cls (included
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