TQ4Q2.0 Fragmentation Functions for Fully Heavy Tetraquark Production

Abstract

We investigate the fragmentation dynamics underlying the production of fully heavy tetraquarks by means of the TQ4Q2.0 collinear FF set, covering scalar ($0^{++}$), axial-vector ($1^{+-}$), and tensor ($2^{++}$) configurations. The fragmentation inputs are determined within NRQCD factorization for the complete set of relevant partonic channels and are subsequently evolved across heavy-flavor thresholds through the HF-NRevo scheme. Perturbative uncertainties associated with fragmentation-scale variations are consistently propagated together with nonperturbative effects encoded in color-composite long-distance matrix elements. Attention is devoted to the axial-vector sector, whose fragmentation pattern makes it especially sensitive to intrinsic-charm contributions at LHC and FCC energies. TQ4Q2.0 therefore provides an uncertainty-aware framework for exploring fully heavy tetraquark production over a broad kinematic range and for connecting exotic-hadron spectroscopy with the partonic structure of the proton.