Further studies on the exclusive productions of $J/\psi+\chi_{cJ}$ ($J=0,1,2$) via $e^+e^-$ annihilation at the $B$ factories

TL;DR

This paper performs a comprehensive NLO analysis of $J/ar{psi}+ar{chi}_{cJ}$ production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at B factories, highlighting the significance of interference effects and higher-order QCD corrections.

Contribution

It introduces the first QCD corrections to interference terms at $ ext{O}( ext{alpha}^3 ext{alpha}_s^2)$, showing their large impact on the production cross sections.

Findings

Interference effects are comparable to NLO QCD corrections, especially for $ar{chi}_{c1}$ and $ar{chi}_{c2}$.

Higher-order $ ext{O}( ext{alpha}^3 ext{alpha}_s^2)$ corrections can significantly counteract lower-order interference contributions.

The interference effect percentage increases rapidly with collision energy, notably for $ar{chi}_{c1}$.

Abstract

By including the interference effect between the QCD and the QED diagrams, we carry out a complete analysis on the exclusive productions of $e^+e^- \to J/\psi+\chi_{cJ}$ ($J=0,1,2$) at the $B$ factories with $\sqrt{s}=10.6$ GeV at the next-to-leading-order (NLO) level in $\alpha_s$, within the nonrelativistic QCD framework. It is found that the $\mathcal O (\alpha^3\alpha_s)$-order terms that represent the tree-level interference are comparable with the usual NLO QCD corrections, especially for the $\chi_{c1}$ and $\chi_{c2}$ cases. To explore the effect of the higher-order terms, namely $\mathcal O (\alpha^3\alpha_s^2)$, we perform the QCD corrections to these $\mathcal O (\alpha^3\alpha_s)$-order terms for the first time, which are found to be able to significantly influence the $\mathcal O (\alpha^3\alpha_s)$-order results. In particular, in the case of $\chi_{c1}$ and $\chi_{c2}$, the newly calculated $\mathcal O (\alpha^3\alpha_s^2)$-order terms can to a large extent counteract the $\mathcal O (\alpha^3\alpha_s)$ contributions, evidently indicating the indispensability of the corrections. In addition, we find that, as the collision energy rises, the percentage of the interference effect in the total cross section will increase rapidly, especially for the $\chi_{c1}$ case.