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Xu-Chang Zheng

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arXiv2019

A proposal on complementary determination of the electro-weak mixing angles ${\rm sin^2θ_W}$ at a super Z-factory

A proposal on determination of the effective electro-weak mixing angle ${\rm sin^2θ_{eff}^f\;(f=c,b)}$ at a super Z-factory (an $e^+e^-$ collider designed with the possible highest luminosity and running around the center mass energy $\sqrt s=m_Z$) is proposed. It is to determine how the effective mixing angles depend on the flavors, especially the flavors $c$, $b$ (with the determined effective ones, the electro-weak mixing angles ${\rm sin^2θ_W^f\;(f=c,b)}$ of Standard Model can be derived out precisely). The key point of the proposal is that at such a super Z-factory, via measuring the forward-backward ($A_{FB}$), left-right ($A_{LR}$) and combined left-right forward-backward ($A^{FB}_{LR}$) asymmetries of the produced doubly heavy-flavored hadrons (such as $B_c$, $B_c^*$ and the baryons $H_{QQ'q}$: $Ξ_{cc}$, $Ξ_{bc}$ and $Ξ_{bb}$ etc) in the relevant production processes $e^+e^-\to B_c+\cdots$ and $e^+e^-\to H_{QQ'q}+\cdots$ one may complement the final determination of the mixing angle ${\rm sin^2θ_W^f\;(f=c,b)}$ of Standard Model. The advantage of the proposed way to determine the effective electro-weak mixing angles is that the doubly heavy flavor(s) and the out-going direction of the produced doubly-heavy hadron can be experimental determined precisely, i.e. there are no such errors caused by missing identification of the heavy flavor(s) and by determining the so-called thrust axis of the produced jets, which can not be avoided in the early determination at LEP-I and SLC.

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arXiv2019

The QCD NLO fragmentation functions for $c$ or $\bar{b}$ quark to $B_c$ or $B_c^*$ meson and their application

The fragmentation functions for $c$ or $\bar{b}$ quark to $B_c$ or $B_c^*$ meson are derived up to QCD next-to-leading order (NLO). They are further computed numerically and presented in figures precisely. In order to reach a higher accuracy, we have also tried properly to apply them to estimating the $B_c$ and $B_c^*$ production at a $Z$-factory (an $e^+e^-$ collider running at the energy of the $Z$-boson pole).

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arXiv2019

The NLO fragmentation functions of heavy quarks into heavy quarkonia

In the paper, we derive the next-to-leading order (NLO) fragmentation function for a heavy quark, either charm or bottom, into a heavy quarkonium $J/Ψ$ or $Υ$. The ultra-violet divergences in the real corrections are removed through the operator renormalization, which is performed under the modified minimal subtraction scheme. We then obtain the NLO fragmentation function at an initial factorization scale, e.g. $μ_{F}=3 m_c$ for $c\to J/Ψ$ and $μ_{F}=3m_b$ for $b\to Υ$, which can be evolved to any scale via the use of Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi equation. As an initial application of those fragmentation functions, we study the $J/Ψ$ ($Υ$) production at a high luminosity $e^+e^-$ collider which runs at the energy around the $Z$ pole and could be a suitable platform for testing the fragmentation function.

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arXiv2018

Production of semi-inclusive doubly heavy baryons via top-quark decays

In the paper, we present a detailed discussion on the semi-inclusive production of doubly heavy baryons ($Ξ_{bc}$ and $Ξ_{bb}$) through top-quark decay channel, $t\rightarrow Ξ_{bQ^{\prime}}+ \bar {Q^{\prime}} + W^+ $, within the framework of non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD). In our calculations, the contributions from the intermediate diquark states, $\langle bc\rangle[^{3}S_{1}]_{\mathbf{\bar 3}/ \mathbf{6}}$, $\langle bc\rangle[^{1}S_{0}]_{\mathbf{\bar 3}/ \mathbf{6}}$, $\langle bb\rangle[^{1}S_{0}]_{\mathbf{6}}$ and $\langle bb\rangle[^{3}S_{1}]_{\mathbf{\bar 3}}$, have been taken into consideration. Main uncertainties from the heavy quark mass $(m_c,~m_b~\mbox{or}~m_t)$, the renormalization scale $μ_r$, and the nonperturbative transition probability have been estimated. For a comparison, we also analyze the production of doubly heavy baryons under the approximate fragmentation function approach. Estimated at the LHC or a High Luminosity LHC with $\mathcal{L}$ =$10^{34-36}~\rm{cm}^{-2}~\rm{s}^{-1}$, there will be about $2.25\times10^{4-6}$ events of $Ξ_{bc}$ and $9.49\times10^{2-4}$ events of $Ξ_{bb}$ produced in one operation year through top-quark decays.

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arXiv2017

The NLO QCD corrections to $B_c$($B_c^*$) production around $Z$ pole at an $e^+e^-$ collider

Production of the $B_c$ and $B_c^*$ mesons at $Z$-factory (an $e^+e^-$ collider running at energies around $Z$ pole) is calculated up-to the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections. The results show that the dependence of the total cross sections on the renormalization scale $μ$ is reduced by the corrections, and the NLO corrections enhance the production cross section by $52\%$($33\%$) when the renormalization scale is taken at $μ=2m_b$. For experimental observations of the $B_c$ and $B_c^*$ mesons, the differential cross sections for the production are also analyzed up-to the NLO accuracy.

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arXiv2015

Production of doubly heavy-flavored hadrons at $e^+e^-$ colliders

Production of the doubly heavy-flavored hadrons ($B_c$ meson, doubly heavy baryons $Ξ_{cc}$, $Ξ_{bc}$, $Ξ_{bb}$, their excited states and antiparticles of them as well) at $e^+e^-$ colliders is investigated under two different approaches: $LO$ (leading order QCD complete calculation) and $LL$ (leading logarithm fragmentation calculation). The results for the production obtained by the approaches $LO$ and $LL$, including the angle distributions of the produced hadrons with unpolarized and polarized incoming beams, the behaviors on the energy fraction of the produced doubly heavy hadron and comparisons between the two approaches' results, are presented in terms of tables and figures. Thus characteristics of the production and uncertainties of the approaches are shown precisely, and it is concluded that only if the colliders run at the eneries around $Z$-pole (which may be called as $Z$-factories) and additionally the luminosity of the colliders is as high as possible then to study the doubly heavy hadrons thoroughly is accessible.

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arXiv2014

An analysis of $H \to γγ$ up to three-loop QCD corrections

The principle of maximum conformality (PMC) provides a convenient way for setting the optimal renormalization scales for high-energy processes, which can eliminate the conventional renormalization scale error via an order-by-order manner. At present, we make a detailed PMC analysis on the Higgs decay $H\rightarrow γγ$ up to three-loop QCD corrections. As an important point of deriving reliable PMC estimation, it is noted that only those $\{β_i\}$-terms that rightly determine the running behavior of coupling constant via the renormalization group equation should be absorbed into the coupling constant, and those $\{β_i\}$-terms that pertain to the quark mass renormalization and etc. should be kept as a separate. To avoid confusion of separating and absorbing different types of $\{β_i\}$-terms into the coupling constant, we first transform the decay width in terms of top quark $\overline{\rm MS}$ mass into that of on-shell mass and then apply the PMC scale setting. After applying PMC scale setting, the final estimation is conformal and is scheme-independent and scale-independent. Up to three-loop QCD corrections, we obtain a PMC scale $μ^{\rm PMC}_{r}=242.3$ GeV $\sim 2M_H$, which is optimal and highly independent of any choice of initial scale. Thus, we obtain a more accurate scale-independent prediction by taking the Higgs mass as the same as that of ATLAS and CMS measurements, i.e., $Γ(H\rightarrow γγ)|_{\rm ATLAS}=9.504^{+0.226}_{-0.252}$ keV and $Γ(H\rightarrow γγ)|_{\rm CMS}=9.568^{+0.195}_{-0.191}$ keV, where the error is caused by the measured Higgs mass, i.e. the Higgs mass $M_{H}$ is taken as $125.5\pm0.2^{+0.5}_{-0.6}$ GeV for ATLAS and $125.7\pm0.3\pm0.3$ GeV for CMS, respectively.

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arXiv2014

Hadronic decays of the spin-singlet heavy quarkomium under the principle of maximum conformality

The principle of maximum conformality (PMC) provides a way to eliminate the conventional renormalization scale ambiguity in a systematic way. By applying the PMC scale setting, all non-conformal terms in perturbative series are summed into the running coupling, and one obtains a unique, scale-fixed prediction at any finite order. In the paper, we make a detailed PMC analysis for the spin-singlet heavy quarkoniums decay (into light hadrons) at the next-to-leading order. After applying the PMC scale setting, the decay widths for all those cases are almost independent of the initial renormalization scales. The PMC scales for $η_c$ and $h_c$ decays are below $1$ GeV, in order to achieve a confidential pQCD estimation, we adopt several low-energy running coupling models to do the estimation. By taking the MPT model, we obtain: $Γ(η_{c} \to LH)=25.09^{+5.52}_{-4.28}$ MeV, $Γ(η_{b} \to LH)=14.34^{+0.92}_{-0.84}$ MeV, $Γ(h_{c} \to LH)=0.54^{+0.06}_{-0.04}$ MeV and $Γ(h_{b} \to LH)=39.89^{+0.28}_{-0.46}$ KeV, where the errors are calculated by taking $m_{c}\in[1.40\rm GeV,1.60\rm GeV]$ and $m_{b}\in[4.50\rm GeV,4.70\rm GeV]$. These decay widths agree with the principle of minimum sensitivity estimations, in which the decay widths of $η_{c,b}$ are also consistent with the measured ones.

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arXiv2014

The Higgs boson inclusive decay channels $H \to b\bar{b}$ and $H \to gg$ up to four-loop level

The principle of maximum conformality (PMC) has been suggested to eliminate the renormalization scheme and renormalization scale uncertainties, which are unavoidable for the conventional scale setting and are usually important errors for theoretical estimations. In this paper, by applying PMC scale setting, we analyze two important inclusive Standard Model Higgs decay channels, $H\rightarrow b\bar{b}$ and $H\rightarrow gg$, up to four-loop and three-loop levels accordingly. After PMC scale setting, it is found that the conventional scale uncertainty for these two channels can be eliminated to a high degree. There is small residual initial scale dependence for the Higgs decay widths due to unknown higher-order $\{β_i\}$-terms. Up to four-loop level, we obtain $Γ(H\rightarrow b\bar{b}) = 2.389\pm0.073 \pm0.041$ MeV and up to three-loop level, we obtain $Γ(H\rightarrow gg) = 0.373\pm0.030$ MeV, where the first error is caused by varying $M_H=126\pm4$ GeV and the second error for $H\to b\bar{b}$ is caused by varying the $\overline{\rm MS}$-running mass $m_b(m_b)=4.18\pm0.03$ GeV. Taking $H\to b\bar{b}$ as an example, we present a comparison of three BLM-based scale setting approaches, e.g. the PMC-I approach based on the PMC-BLM correspondence, the $R_δ$-scheme and the seBLM approach, all of which are designed to provide effective ways to identify non-conformal $\{β_i\}$-series at each perturbative order. At four-loop level, all those approaches lead to good pQCD convergence, they have almost the same pQCD series, and their predictions are almost independent on the initial renormalization scale. In this sense, those approaches are equivalent to each other.

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arXiv2013

Next-to-leading order QCD corrections for the charmonium production via the channel $e^+ e^- \to H(|c\bar{c}\rangle) + γ$ round the $Z^0$ peak

In our previous work [2], it has been found that sizable charmonium events via the channel $e^+e^- \to γ^*/Z^0 \to H(|c\bar{c}\rangle) +γ$ can be produced at the suggested super $Z$ factory, where $H(|c\bar{c}\rangle)$ represents the dominant color-singlet $S$-wave and $P$-wave charmonium states $J/ψ$, $η_c$, $h_c$ and $χ_{cJ}$ ($J=0, 1, 2$), respectively. As an important step forward, in the present paper, we present a next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD analysis within the framework of nonrelativistic QCD. In different to the case of $B$ factory in which the single charmonium production is dominated by the channel via a virtual photon, at the super $Z$ factory, its cross-section is dominated by the channel via a $Z^0$ boson. Estimations up to NLO level are done at both the $B$ factory and the super $Z$ factory experimental conditions. We observe that the NLO distributions have the same shapes as those of LO distributions, but their differences are sizable. This indicates that a NLO calculation is necessary and important to achieve a more accurate estimation. Due to $Z^0$ boson resonance effect, at the super $Z$ factory with a high luminosity up to $10^{36}{\rm cm}^{-2}{\rm s}^{-1}$, when summing all the color-singlet states' contribution together, one may observe about $8.0\times10^{4}$ charmonium events via the channel $e^+e^-\to Z^0 \to H(|c\bar{c}\rangle)+γ$ in one operation year. Then, such super $Z$ factory could provide another useful platform to study the charmonium properties, even for the higher charmonium states.

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arXiv2013

Reanalysis of the BFKL Pomeron at the next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy

We apply the principle of maximum conformality (PMC) to the Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov (BFKL) Pomeron intercept at the next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy. The PMC eliminates the conventional renormalization scale ambiguity by absorbing the non-conformal $\{β_i\}$-terms into the running coupling, and a more accurate pQCD estimation can be obtained. After PMC scale setting, the QCD perturbative convergence can be greatly improved due to the elimination of renormalon terms in pQCD series, and the BFKL Pomeron intercept has a weak dependence on the virtuality of the reggeized gluon. For example, by taking the Fried-Yennie gauge, we obtain $ω_{\rm MOM}^{\rm PMC}(Q^{2},0)\in [0.149,0.176]$ for $Q^2\in[1,100]\;{\rm GeV}^2$. This is a good property to apply to the high-energy phenomenology. Further more, to compare with the data, it is found that the physical ${\rm MOM}$-scheme is more reliable than the $\overline{\rm MS}$-scheme. The ${\rm MOM}$-scheme is gauge dependent, which can also be greatly suppressed after PMC scale setting. We discuss the MOM-scheme gauge dependence for the Pomeron intercept by adopting three gauges, i.e. the Landau gauge, the Feynman gauge and the Fried-Yennie gauge, and we obtain $ω_{\rm MOM}^{\rm PMC}(Q^{2}=15\;{\rm GeV}^2,0) = 0.166^{+0.010}_{-0.017}$; i.e. about $10\%$ gauge dependence is observed. We apply the BFKL Pomeron intercept to the photon-photon collision process, and compare the theoretical predictions with the data from the OPAL and L3 experiments.

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arXiv2013

$J/ψ+χ_{cJ}$ Production at the $B$ Factories under the Principle of Maximum Conformality

Under the conventional scale setting, the renormalization scale uncertainty usually constitutes a systematic error for a fixed-order perturbative QCD estimation. The recently suggested principle of maximum conformality (PMC) provides a principle to eliminate such scale ambiguity in a step-by-step way. Using the PMC, all non-conformal terms in perturbative expansion series are summed into the running coupling, and one obtains a unique, scale-fixed, scheme-independent prediction at any finite order. In the paper, we make a detailed PMC analysis for both the polarized and the unpolarized cross sections for the double charmonium production process, $e^{+} + e^{-} \to J/ ψ(ψ') + χ_{cJ}$ with $(J=0,1,2)$. The running behavior for the coupling constant, governed by the PMC scales, are determined exactly for the specific processes. We compare our predictions with the measurements at the $B$ factories, BABAR and Belle, and the theoretical estimations obtained in the literature. Because the non-conformal terms are different for various polarized and unpolarized cross sections, the PMC scales of these cross sections are different in principle. It is found that all the PMC scales are almost independent of the initial choice of renormalization scale. Thus, the large renormalization scale uncertainty usually adopted in the literature up to $sim40%$ at the NLO level, obtained from the conventional scale setting, for both the polarized and the unpolarized cross sections are greatly suppressed. It is found that the charmonium production is dominated by J=0 channel. After PMC scale setting, we obtain $σ(J/ψ+χ_{c0}) = 12.25^{+3.70}_{-3.13}$ fb and $σ(ψ'+χ_{c0}) =5.23^{+1.56}_{-1.32}$ fb,......

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arXiv2012

Doubly Heavy Baryon Production at A High Luminosity $e^+ e^-$ Collider

Within the framework of nonrelativistic QCD, we make a detailed discussion on the doubly heavy baryon production through the $e^+ e^-$ annihilation channel, $e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrowγ/Z^0 \rightarrow Ξ_{QQ^{\prime}} +\bar{Q} +\bar{Q^{\prime}}$, at a high luminosity $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider. Here $Q^{(\prime)}$ stands for the heavy $b$ or $c$ quark. In addition to the channel through the usually considered diquark state $(QQ^{\prime})[^3S_1]_{\bf\bar{3}}$, contributions from the channels through other same important diquark states such as $(QQ^{\prime})[^1S_0]_{\bf 6}$ have also been discussed. Uncertainties for the total cross sections are predicted by taking $m_c=1.80\pm0.30$ GeV and $m_b=5.10\pm0.40$ GeV. At a super $Z$-factory running around the $Z^0$ mass and with a high luminosity up to ${\cal L} \propto 10^{34}\sim 10^{36}{\rm cm}^{-2} {\rm s}^{-1}$, we estimate that about $1.1\times10^{5 \sim 7}$ $Ξ_{cc}$ events, $2.6\times10^{5 \sim 7}$ $Ξ_{bc}$ events and $1.2\times 10^{4 \sim 6}$ $Ξ_{bb}$ events can be generated in one operation year. Such a $Z$-factory, thus, will provide a good platform for studying the doubly heavy baryons in comparable to the CERN large hadronic collider.

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