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Next-to-leading Order Calculation of the Color-Octet 3S1 Gluon Fragmentation Function for Heavy Quarkonium

Eric Braaten, Jungil Lee

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0004228

Abstract

The short-distance coefficients for the color-octet 3S1 term in the fragmentation function for a gluon to split into heavy quarkonium states is calculated to order alphas2. The gauge-invariant definition of the fragmentation function by Collins and Soper is employed. Ultraviolet divergences are removed using the MS-bar renormalization procedure. The longitudinal term in the fragmentation function agrees with a previous calculation by Beneke and Rothstein. The next-to-leading order correction to the transverse term disagrees with a previous calculation.

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