Fragmentation functions for a quark into a spin-singlet quarkonium: Different flavor case

Abstract

In the paper, we calculate the fragmentation functions for a quark to fragment into a spin-singlet quarkonium, where the flavor of the initial quark is different from that of the constituent quark in the quarkonium. The ultraviolet divergences in the phase space integral are removed through the operator renormalization under the modified minimal subtraction scheme. The fragmentation function $D_{q \to η_Q}(z,μ_F)$ is expressed as a two-dimensional integral. Numerical results for the fragmentation functions of a light quark or a bottom quark to fragment into the $η_c$ are presented. As an application of those fragmentation functions, we study the processes $Z \to η_c+q\bar{q}g(q=u,d,s)$ and $Z \to η_c+b\bar{b}g$ under the fragmentation and the direct nonrelativistic QCD approaches.