Heavy-flavor multimodal fragmentation to $S$-wave pentacharms at next-generation hadron colliders

Abstract

We investigate the leading-power fragmentation of fully charmed pentaquark states ($S$-wave $|c\bar{c}ccc⟩$ pentacharms) at hadron colliders. We introduce a new set of multimodal collinear fragmentation functions, named PQ5Q1.0. They rely on an enhanced calculation of the initial-scale input for the constituent heavy-quark fragmentation channel, making them well suited to describe the short-distance emission of either a compact multicharm state or a dicharm-charm-dicharm configuration. To explore phenomenological implications, we use the (sym)JETHAD multimodular interface to study NLL/NLO${}^{+}$ semi-inclusive production rates for pentacharm-plus-jet systems at the forthcoming HL-LHC and the future FCC. Our analysis represents a further step toward bridging the domains of hadronic structure, precision QCD, and exotic matter.

49 pages, 9 figures, 245 references, published in Eur. Phys. J. C. One novel set of multimodal (direct multicharm and diquark-like initial-scale inputs) "PentaQuarks with 5 heavy Quarks" (PQ5Q1.0) NLO collinear fragmentation functions released in LHAPDF format and publicly available from https://github.com/FGCeliberto/Collinear_FFs/

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