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Relativistic correction to at factories and constraint on color-octet matrix elements

arXiv:0910.3636 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.81.054036

Abstract

We calculate the relativistic correction to production in the color-singlet process at B-factories. We employ the non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization approach, where the short-distance coefficients are calculated perturbatively and the long-distance matrix elements are extracted from the decays of into and light hadrons. We find that the relativistic correction can enhance the cross section by a factor of 20-30%, comparable to the enhancement due to the radiative correction obtained earlier. Combining the relativistic correction with the QCD radiative correction, we find that the color-singlet contribution to can saturate the latest observed cross section pb by Belle, thus leaving little room to the color-octet contributions. This gives a very stringent constraint on the color-octet contribution, and may imply that the values of color-octet matrix elements are much smaller than expected earlier by using the naive velocity scaling rules or extracted from fitting experimental data with the leading-order calculations.

15 pages, 2 figures, version published in PRD

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