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Title: Heavy Quarks, QCD, and Effective Field Theory

Abstract

The research supported by this OJI award is in the area of heavy quark and quarkonium production, especially the application Soft-Collinear E ective Theory (SCET) to the hadronic production of quarkonia. SCET is an e ffective theory which allows one to derive factorization theorems and perform all order resummations for QCD processes. Factorization theorems allow one to separate the various scales entering a QCD process, and in particular, separate perturbative scales from nonperturbative scales. The perturbative physics can then be calculated using QCD perturbation theory. Universal functions with precise fi eld theoretic de nitions describe the nonperturbative physics. In addition, higher order perturbative QCD corrections that are enhanced by large logarithms can be resummed using the renormalization group equations of SCET. The applies SCET to the physics of heavy quarks, heavy quarkonium, and similar particles.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1052829
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/41376-1
DOE Contract Number:  
FG02-05ER41376
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; Heavy Quarks, Quarkonium, Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, Effective Field Theories

Citation Formats

Mehen, Thomas. Heavy Quarks, QCD, and Effective Field Theory. United States: N. p., 2012. Web. doi:10.2172/1052829.
Mehen, Thomas. Heavy Quarks, QCD, and Effective Field Theory. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1052829
Mehen, Thomas. 2012. "Heavy Quarks, QCD, and Effective Field Theory". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1052829. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1052829.
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title = {Heavy Quarks, QCD, and Effective Field Theory},
author = {Mehen, Thomas},
abstractNote = {The research supported by this OJI award is in the area of heavy quark and quarkonium production, especially the application Soft-Collinear E ective Theory (SCET) to the hadronic production of quarkonia. SCET is an e ffective theory which allows one to derive factorization theorems and perform all order resummations for QCD processes. Factorization theorems allow one to separate the various scales entering a QCD process, and in particular, separate perturbative scales from nonperturbative scales. The perturbative physics can then be calculated using QCD perturbation theory. Universal functions with precise fi eld theoretic de nitions describe the nonperturbative physics. In addition, higher order perturbative QCD corrections that are enhanced by large logarithms can be resummed using the renormalization group equations of SCET. The applies SCET to the physics of heavy quarks, heavy quarkonium, and similar particles.},
doi = {10.2172/1052829},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 09 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Tue Oct 09 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
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