2007/07/31 by Daekyoung Kang, Taewon Kim, Jungil Lee +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.76.114018
published as Phys.Rev.D76:114018,2007 · 27 pages, 5 figures, minor corrections. version published in Phys. Rev. D
arxiv created 2007/12/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Based on the NRQCD factorization formalism, we calculate the inclusive charm production rate in Upsilon(nS) decay at leading order in the strong coupling constant alphas and the relative velocity v of the b quark in the quarkonium rest frame. The branching fractions for Upsilon(nS) to charm for n=1, 2, and 3 are all around 7-9%. About 60% of the branching fraction into charm is from annihilation of the color-singlet bb-bar pair into gamma^* -> cc-bar. Most of the remaining branching fraction is from annihilation of the color-singlet bb-bar pair decaying into cc-bar gg. We also compute the momentum distributions of the charm quark and charmed hadrons in the decays. The virtual-photon contribution to the charm quark momentum distribution is concentrated at the end point while the cc-bar gg contribution is broad. The momentum distributions for charmed hadrons are obtained by convolving the charm-quark momentum distribution with charm fragmentation functions. This makes the momentum distributions for charmed hadrons softer than that for the charm quark. This effect is particularly significant in the virtual-photon contribution.