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Gluon Fragmentation into Heavy Quarkonium

arXiv:hep-ph/9303205 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.1673

Abstract

The dominant production mechanism for heavy quark-antiquark bound states in very high energy processes is fragmentation, the splitting of a high energy parton into a quarkonium state and other partons. We show that the fragmentation functions describing these processes can be calculated using perturbative QCD. We calculate the fragmentation functions for a gluon to split into S-wave quarkonium states to leading order in the QCD coupling constant. The leading logarithms of , where is the factorization scale and is the heavy quark mass, are summed up using Altarelli-Parisi evolution equations.

LateX 11 pages (3 figures available upon request). NUHEP-TH-92-23

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