Spin-dependent fragmentation functions of Gluon splitting into heavy quarkonia considering three different scenarios

TL;DR

This paper analytically calculates gluon fragmentation functions into heavy quarkonia considering three scenarios, revealing that gluons are most likely to produce spin-triplet states, which aids understanding of QCD dynamics.

Contribution

It introduces three different scenarios for calculating gluon fragmentation functions into heavy quarkonia, providing new analytical results within perturbative QCD.

Findings

Gluon fragmentation into spin-triplet states is most probable.

Fragmentation functions are computed analytically for three scenarios.

Results enhance understanding of heavy quarkonium production mechanisms.

Abstract

Heavy quarkonium production is a powerful implement to study the strong interaction dynamics and QCD theory. Fragmentation is the dominant production mechanism for heavy quarkonia with large transverse momentum. With the large heavy quark mass, the relative motion of the heavy quark pair inside a heavy quarkonium is effectively nonrelativistic and it is also well-known that their fragmentation functions can be calculated in the perturbative QCD framework. Here, we analytically calculate the process-independent fragmentation functions for a gluon to split into the spin-singlet and -triplet $S$-wave heavy quarkonia using three different scenarios. We will show that the fragmentation probability of the gluon into the spin-triplet bound-state is the biggest one.