$Z$ boson radiative decays to a $S$-wave quarkonium at NNLO and NLL accuracy

Abstract

Within the framework of nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization formalism, we compute QCD next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections to the helicity amplitudes as well as the decay width of $Z\to H+\gamma$, where $H$ can be ${\eta }_Q(Q=c,b),J/\psi$, or ${\rm Y}$. In addition, we resum the next-to-leading logarithms (NLL) of $m_Z^2/m_Q^2$ to all orders of ${\alpha }_s$ for the leading-twist helicity amplitude by employing the light-cone factorization approach. It is worth mentioning that we obtain the analytic expressions of the truncated NLL at ${\alpha }_s^2$. We find that the $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s)$ corrections are around 10\% for ${\eta }_c$ and ${\rm Y}$ productions, however insignificant for $J/\psi$ and ${\eta }_b$ productions. The $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s^2)$ corrections are moderate for charmonium production, while very small for bottomonium production. Moreover, it is found that the NLL resummation can considerably alter the NRQCD prediction, especially for $J/\psi$ production. Combining the NRQCD and light-cone computation, we make phenomenological predictions on the decay widths and branching fractions. In addition, we investigate the dependence of the theoretical results on the heavy quark mass, and find the branching fraction of $Z\to H+\gamma$ monotonically decreases as $m_Q$ increases.

21 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. correct typos, add the comparison with LC models, match the published version in PRD. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2208.10118

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