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Soft Contributions Stabilize NNLO QCD Corrections to Quarkonium Production and Decay

Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to quarkonium production and decay are known to exhibit perturbative instabilities within non-relativistic QCD. We identify the origin of this problem and propose a simple remedy. Applying our approach to $S$-wave color-singlet quarkonium processes, we achieve substantially improved perturbative convergence and agreement with experimental data.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7166722381
Cites: 67
Cited by: 2
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