paper

Gluon fragmentation into quark pair and test of NRQCD factorization at two-loop level

arXiv:2011.04905

Abstract

The next-to-leading order (NLO) () corrections for gluon fragmentation functions to a heavy quark-antiquark pair in states are calculated within the NRQCD factorization. We use integration-by-parts reduction and differential equations to semi-analytically calculate fragmentation functions in full-QCD, and find that infrared divergences can be absorbed by the NRQCD long distance matrix elements. Thus, the NRQCD factorization conjecture is verified at two-loop level via a physical process, which is free of artificial ultraviolet divergences. Through matching procedure, infrared-safe short distance coefficients and perturbative NRQCD matrix elements are obtained simultaneously. The NLO short distance coefficients are found to have significant corrections comparing with the LO ones.

arXiv comment19 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1810.07656

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