We discuss the constraints induced by the algebra of the Poincare generators on non-relativistic effective field theories. In the first part we derive some relations among the matching coefficients of the HQET (and NRQCD), which have been formerly obtained by use of reparametrization invariance. In the second part we obtain new constraints on the matching coefficients of pNRQCD.
The approach of nonrelativistic QCD(NRQCD) factorization was proposed to study inclusive production of a quarkonium. It is widely used and successful. However, a recent study of gluon fragmentation into a quarkonium at two-loop level shows that the factorization is broken. It is suggested that the color-octet NRQCD matrix elements should be modified by adding a gauge link to restore the factorization. The modified matrix elements may have extra soft-divergences at one-loop level which the unmodified can not have, and this can lead to a violation of the universality of these matrix elements. In this letter, we examine in detail the NRQCD factorization for inclusive quarkonium production in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation at one-loop level. Our results show that the factorization can be made without the modification of NRQCD matrix elements and it can also be made for relativistic corrections. It turns out that the suggested gauge link will not lead to nonzero contributions to color-octet NRQCD matrix elements at one-loop level and at any order of $v$. Therefore the universality holds at least at one-loop level.
We present a quenched lattice calculation for the lowest lying $b bar b g$-hybrid states in the framework of NRQCD using the leading order Hamiltonian up to ${cal O}(mv^2)$. We demonstrate the existence of a nearly degenerate rotational band of states with an excitation energy approximately 1.6 GeV above the $Upsilon$ ground state. This lies around the $B bar B_J^*$-threshold but well above the $B bar B$-threshold. Therefore a heavy hybrid signal may well be detected if the centre-of-mass energy in B-factories is raised a few hundred MeV to coincide with other resonances above the 4S state. Our prediction is consistent with most phenomenological models and lattice calculations carried out in the static limit.
We study the transition of a heavy quark pair from octet to singlet color configurations at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in heavy quarkonium production. We show that the infrared singularities in this process are consistent with NRQCD factorization to all orders in the heavy quark relative velocity v. This factorization requires the gauge-completed matrix elements that we introduced previously to prove NNLO factorization to order v ^2.
We discuss factorization in heavy quarkonium production in high energy collisions using NRQCD. Infrared divergences at NNLO are not matched by conventional NRQCD matrix elements. However, we show that gauge invariance and factorization require that conventional NRQCD production matrix elements be modified to include Wilson lines or non-abelian gauge links. With this modification NRQCD factorization for heavy quarkonium production is restored at NNLO.
We discuss heavy quarkonium production through parton fragmentation, including a review of arguments for the factorization of high-p_T particles into fragmentation functions for hadronic initial states. We investigate the further factorization of fragmentation functions in the NRQCD formalism, and argue that this requires a modification of NRQCD octet production matrix elements to include nonabelian phases, which makes them gauge invariant. We describe the calculation of uncanceled infrared divergences in fragmentation functions that must be factorized at NNLO, and verify that they are absorbed into the new, gauge invariant matrix elements.