Heavy $P$-wave quarkonium production via Higgs decays

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the production rates of heavy quarkonium states via Higgs boson decays using NRQCD, providing analytic expressions and estimating yields at the LHC, including both S-wave and P-wave states.

Contribution

It introduces an improved trace technology for analytic amplitude calculations and comprehensively analyzes heavy quarkonium production through Higgs decays within the NRQCD framework.

Findings

Predicted decay widths for various quarkonium states.

Estimated production of hundreds of thousands of quarkonium mesons per year at LHC.

Inclusion of both color-singlet and color-octet contributions.

Abstract

The production of the heavy quarkonium, i.e., $|(c\bar{b})[n]\rangle$ (or $|(b\bar{c})[n]\rangle$), $|(c\bar{c})[n]\rangle$, and $|(b\bar{b})[n]\rangle$- quarkonium [$|(Q\bar{Q'})[n]\rangle$-quarkonium for short], through Higgs $H^{0}$ boson semiexclusive decays is evaluated within the NRQCD framework, where $[n]$ stands for the production of the two color-singlet $S$-wave states, $|(Q\bar{Q'})[^1S_0]_{\textbf{1}} \rangle$ and $|(Q\bar{Q'})[^3S_1]_{\textbf{1}} \rangle$, the production of the four color-singlet $P$-wave states, i.e., $|(Q\bar{Q'})[^1P_0]_{\textbf{1}}\rangle$, $|(Q\bar{Q'})[^3P_J]_{\textbf{1}}\rangle$ (with $J =[0, 1, 2]$). Moreover, according to the velocity scaling rule of the NRQCD, the production of the two color-octet components, $|(Q\bar{Q'})g[^1S_0]_{\textbf{8}} \rangle$ and $|(Q\bar{Q'})g[^3S_1]_{\textbf{8}} \rangle$, are also taken into account. The "improved trace technology" to derive the simplified analytic expressions at the amplitude level is adopted, which shall be useful for dealing with these decay channels. If all higher heavy quarkonium states decay completely to the ground states, it should be obtained $\Gamma{(H^0\to |(c\bar{b})[^1S_0]_{\textbf{1}}\rangle)}=15.14$ KeV, $\Gamma{(H^0\to |(c\bar{c})[^1S_0]_{\textbf{1}}\rangle)}=1.547$ KeV, and $\Gamma{(H^0\to |(b\bar{b})[^1S_0]_{\textbf{1}}\rangle)}=1.311$ KeV. The production of $5.6\times10^{5}$ Bc meson, $4.7\times10^{4}$ charmonium meson, and $4.9\times10^{4}$ bottomonium meson per year in Higgs decays at the HE/HL-LHC can be obtained.