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We apply a color glass condensate+nonrelativistic QCD (CGC+NRQCD) framework to compute J/ψ production in deuteron-nucleus collisions at RHIC and proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC. Our results match smoothly at high p⊥ to a next-to-leading order perturbative QCD+NRQCD computation. Excellent agreement is obtained for p⊥ spectra at the RHIC and LHC for central and forward rapidities, as well as for the normalized ratio RpA of these results to spectra in proton-proton collisions. In particular, we observe that the RpA data are strongly bounded by our computations of the same for each of the individual NRQCD channels; this result provides strong evidence that our description is robust against uncertainties in initial conditions and hadronization mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We calculate the O(αs³) short-distance, QCD collinear-factorized coefficient functions for all partonic channels that include the production of a heavy quark pair at short distances. This provides the first power correction to the collinear-factorized inclusive hadronic production of heavy quarkonia at large transverse momentum, pT, including the full leading-order perturbative contributions to the production of heavy quark pairs in all color and spin states employed in NRQCD treatments of this process. We discuss the role of the first power correction in the production rates and the polarizations of heavy quarkonia in high-energy hadronic collisions. The consistency of QCD collinear factorization and nonrelativistic QCD factorization applied to heavy quarkonium production is also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a perturbative QCD factorization formalism for inclusive production of heavy quarkonia of large transverse momentum, pT at collider energies, including both leading power (LP) and next-to-leading power (NLP) behavior in pT. We demonstrate that both LP and NLP contributions can be factorized in terms of perturbatively calculable short-distance partonic coefficient functions and universal nonperturbative fragmentation functions, and derive the evolution equations that are implied by the factorization. We identify projection operators for all channels of the factorized LP and NLP infrared safe short-distance partonic hard parts, and corresponding operator definitions of fragmentation functions. For the NLP, we focus on the contributions involving the production of a heavy quark pair, a necessary condition for producing a heavy quarkonium. We evaluate the first nontrivial order of evolution kernels for all relevant fragmentation functions, and discuss the role of NLP contributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With nonrelativistic QCD factorization, we calculate the &ggr;(1S) prompt production at hadron colliders at next-to-leading order in &agr;s. In addition to the color-singlet contribution, color-octet channels (especially the P-wave channel) up to O(&ngr;4) are all considered. Aside from direct production, the feed-down contributions from higher excited S-wave and P-wave b&bmacr; states to &ggr;(15) production are also included. We use the potential model estimates as input for color-singlet long-distance matrix elements (LDMEs). While for color-octet contributions, we find they can be approximately described by three LDMEs: 〈…(3S[8]>1)&rlang;, 〈…(1S[8]>0)&rlang; and 〈…(3S[8]>0)&rlang;. By fitting the Tevatron data we can determine some hnear combinations of these LDMEs, and then use them to predict &ggr;(1S) production at the LHC. Our predictions are consistent with the new experimental data of CMS and LHCb. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parton distribution functions (PDFs) are nonperturbative quantities describing the relation between a hadron and the quarks and gluons within it. We propose to extract PDFs from QCD global analysis of "data" generated by lattice QCD calculations of good "lattice cross sections," which are basically single-hadron matrix elements that are lattice QCD calculable and perturbative QCD factorizable into the PDFs. To demonstrate the existence of good "lattice cross sections," we take quasiquark distribution introduced by Ji [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 262002 (2013)] as a case study to show that it could be factorized into the PDFs to all orders in perturbation theory if it can be multiplicatively renormalized. We calculate the factorized coefficients at the next-to-leading order in αs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Quasiparton distribution functions have received a lot of attention in both the perturbative QCD and lattice QCD communities in recent years because they not only carry good information on the parton distribution functions but also could be evaluated by lattice QCD simulations. However, unlike the parton distribution functions, the quasiparton distribution functions have perturbative ultraviolet power divergences because they are not defined by twist-2 operators. In this paper, we identify all sources of ultraviolet divergences for the quasiparton distribution functions in coordinate space and demonstrate that power divergences as well as all logarithmic divergences can be renormalized multiplicatively to all orders in QCD perturbation theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the QCD sum rules approach, we study the newly discovered doubly heavy baryon Ξcc++. We analytically calculate the next-to-leading-order (NLO) contribution to the perturbative part of the JP = 1/2+ baryon current with two identical heavy quarks, and then reanalyze the mass of Ξcc++ at the NLO level. We find that the NLO correction significantly improves both scheme dependence and scale dependence, whereas it is hard to control these theoretical uncertainties at leading order. With the NLO contribution, the baryon mass is estimated to be mΞcc++ = 3.66-0.10+0.08 GeV, which is consistent with the LHCb measurement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]