Resumming the color-octet contribution to e+ e- -> J/psi + X

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2003-06-17

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0306139v1

Phys.Rev.D68:094011,2003

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

27 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.68.094011

Recent observations of the spectrum of J/psi produced in e+ e- collisions at the Upsilon(4S) resonance are in conflict with fixed-order calculations using the Non-Relativistic QCD (NRQCD) effective field theory. One problem is that leading order color-octet mechanisms predict an enhancement of the cross section for J/psi with maximal energy that is not observed in the data. However, in this region of phase space large perturbative corrections (Sudakov logarithms) as well as enhanced nonperturbative effects are important. In this paper we use the newly developed Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) to systematically include these effects. We find that these corrections significantly broaden the color-octet contribution to the J/psi spectrum. Our calculation employs a one-stage renormalization group evolution rather than the two-stage evolution used in previous SCET calculations. We give a simple argument for why the two methods yield identical results to lowest order in the SCET power counting.

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