Breakdown of Nonrelativistic QCD Factorization in Processes Involving Two Quarkonia and its Cure

Abstract

We study inclusive processes involving two heavy quarkonia in nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) and demonstrate that, in the presence of two P-wave Fock states, NRQCD factorization breaks down, leaving uncanceled infrared singularities. As phenomenologically important examples, we consider the decay →χcJ+X via bb(P3Jb[8])→cc(P3J[1])+gg and the production process e+e-→J/ψ+χcJ+X via e+e-→cc(P3J1[8])+cc(P3J[1])+g. We infer that such singularities will appear for double quarkonium hadroproduction at next-to-leading order. As a solution to this problem, we introduce to NRQCD effective field theory new types of operators whose quantum corrections absorb these singularities.