Heavy Pair Production Currents with General Quantum Numbers in Dimensionally Regularized NRQCD

Abstract

We discuss the form and construction of general color singlet heavy particle-antiparticle pair production currents for arbitrary quantum numbers, and issues related to evanescent spin operators and scheme-dependences in nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) in n=3-2epsilon dimensions. The anomalous dimensions of the leading interpolating currents for heavy quark and colored scalar pairs in arbitrary (2S+1)L_J angular-spin states are determined at next-to-leading order in the nonrelativistic power counting.

39 pages, 2 tables, 10 figures; typos corrected, published version