The rare exclusive decay of the Higgs boson, $ H \to J/\psi + \gamma $ , is a crucial channel for assessing the Yukawa coupling of the charm quark. In this article, we examine this process up to the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD utilizing the Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC). The PMC offers a systematic approach to eliminate renormalization scale uncertainties by resumming non-conformal $\textit{β}$ contributions into the QCD running coupling through the renormalization group equation (RGE). A PMC scale of $ Q_\star = 3.29\ {\rm{GeV}} $ is obtained, which reflects the low virtuality of the underlying QCD dynamics in the $ H \to J/\psi + \gamma $ process. Notably, this is an order of magnitude smaller than the scale estimated using the conventional method, $\textit{i.e.}$, $ \mu_r = m_H/2 $ . By removing the non-conformal $ \{\beta_i\} $ -terms from the perturbative QCD (pQCD) series, we observe that the PMC NLO QCD correction term is significantly enhanced, while the PMC NNLO QCD correction is suppressed. This indicates improved convergence of the pQCD series up to NNLO. Finally, we calculate the decay width $ \Gamma(H \to J/\psi + \gamma) = $ $ 14.183^{+0.249}_{-0.347} \pm 0.022 $ eV, where the first uncertainty arises from the factorization scale $ \mu_\Lambda \in [1, 2]\ {\rm{GeV}} $ , and the second is due to the estimation of unknown higher-order terms using the Pad $ \acute{e} $ approximant approach. The corresponding branching fraction is $ {\cal{B}}(H \to J/\psi + \gamma) = 3.485_{-0.161}^{+0.152} \times 10^{-6} $ .

China

Wen-Yuan Li

Ting Sun

Sheng-Quan Wang

Jian-Ming Shen

Hua Zhou

Xing-Gang Wu

Italy

Leonardo Di Giustino

Analysis of $\textit{H}$ → $\textit{J}$/$\textit{ψ}$ + $\textit{γ}$ up to Next-to-Next-to-Leading order QCD corrections * Supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of China (12265011, 12175025, 12347101); the Project of Guizhou Provincial Department of Science and Technology (YQK[2023]016, ZK[2023]141, CXTD[2025]030); the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation (2024JJ3004); the YueLuShan Center for Industrial Innovation (2024YCII0118), and the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province (2024NSFSC1367)

We investigate near-threshold <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>J</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>ψ</mi></math> photoproduction off the nucleon, focusing on hadronic rescattering effects induced by open-charm meson-baryon intermediate states. Beyond the conventional Pomeron-exchange mechanism, the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mover accent="true"><mi>D</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover><mn>0</mn></msup><msubsup><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi><mi>c</mi><mo>+</mo></msubsup></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mover accent="true"><mi>D</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover><mrow><mo>*</mo><mn>0</mn></mrow></msup><msubsup><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi><mi>c</mi><mo>+</mo></msubsup></math> channels are incorporated within an effective Lagrangian framework. The relevant production amplitudes are constructed at tree level from <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>t</mi></math>-, <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>s</mi></math>-, and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>u</mi></math>-channel diagrams in a gauge-invariant manner. The resulting total and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>t</mi></math>-dependent differential cross sections are compared with recent near-threshold data from the GlueX, <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi>J</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>ψ</mi><mtext>−</mtext><mn>007</mn></mrow></math>, and CLAS experiments at Jefferson Laboratory. We find that the open-charm rescattering contributions improve the description of the data, especially for the differential cross sections at large momentum transfer, and can generate cusplike enhancements near the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mover accent="true"><mi>D</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover><mn>0</mn></msup><msubsup><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi><mi>c</mi><mo>+</mo></msubsup></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mover accent="true"><mi>D</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover><mrow><mo>*</mo><mn>0</mn></mrow></msup><msubsup><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi><mi>c</mi><mo>+</mo></msubsup></math> thresholds within the present hadronic model. We further present model estimates for the associated open-charm production processes <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>γ</mi><mi>p</mi><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><msup><mover accent="true"><mi>D</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mo>*</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mn>0</mn></mrow></msup><msubsup><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi><mi>c</mi><mo>+</mo></msubsup></math>, with total cross sections of the order of a few nanobarns.

South Korea

S. Sakinah

Sang-Ho Kim

H.M. Choi

Rescattering effects in near-threshold <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>J</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>ψ</mi></math> photoproduction

By analyzing <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>2712.4</mn><mo>±</mo><mn>14.3</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>×</mo><msup><mn>10</mn><mn>6</mn></msup><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>ψ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>3686</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math> events collected with the BESIII detector operating at the BEPCII collider, the decays <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>χ</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>J</mi></mrow></msub><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi>p</mi><msup><mi>K</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><mover accent="true"><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover><mi>η</mi><mo>+</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">c</mi><mo>.</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">c</mi></math>. (<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>J</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0</mn></math>, 1, 2) are observed for the first time, with statistical significances exceeding <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mn>5</mn><mi>σ</mi></math> for all three <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>χ</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>J</mi></mrow></msub></math> states. The measured branching fractions are <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="script">B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><msub><mi>χ</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mn>0</mn></mrow></msub><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi>p</mi><msup><mi>K</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><mover accent="true"><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover><mi>η</mi><mo>+</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">c</mi><mo>.</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">c</mi><mo>.</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>=</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>5.3</mn><mo>±</mo><mn>0.7</mn><mo>±</mo><mn>0.5</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>×</mo><msup><mn>10</mn><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>5</mn></mrow></msup></math>, <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="script">B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><msub><mi>χ</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi>p</mi><msup><mi>K</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><mover accent="true"><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover><mi>η</mi><mo>+</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">c</mi><mo>.</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">c</mi><mo>.</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>=</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>9.8</mn><mo>±</mo><mn>0.6</mn><mo>±</mo><mn>0.6</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>×</mo><msup><mn>10</mn><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>5</mn></mrow></msup></math>, and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="script">B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><msub><mi>χ</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi>p</mi><msup><mi>K</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><mover accent="true"><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover><mi>η</mi><mo>+</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">c</mi><mo>.</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">c</mi><mo>.</mo><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>=</mo><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>9.3</mn><mo>±</mo><mn>0.6</mn><mo>±</mo><mn>0.6</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>×</mo><msup><mn>10</mn><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>5</mn></mrow></msup></math>, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. Structures consistent with the known hyperon resonances <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>1520</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mover accent="true"><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>1690</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math> are seen in the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>p</mi><msup><mi>K</mi><mo>−</mo></msup></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mover accent="true"><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover><mi>η</mi></math> invariant mass spectra, respectively. The reported branching fractions include both resonant and nonresonant contributions. These results provide new experimental information on hadronic decays of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>P</mi></math>-wave charmonium states and contribute to the understanding of baryon production and hadronization dynamics in the nonperturbative QCD regime.

M. Ablikim

Russia

M.N. Achasov

Sweden

P. Adlarson

X.C. Ai

C.S. Akondi

Germany

R. Aliberti

A. Amoroso

Q. An

Y.H. An

M.S. Anderson

Y. Bai

JINR

O. Bakina

H.R. Bao

X.L. Bao

M. Barbagiovanni

Poland

V. Batozskaya

Mongolia

K. Begzsuren

N. Berger

M. Berlowski

M.B. Bertani

D. Bettoni

F. Bianchi

E. Bianco

A. Bortone

I. Boyko

United States

R.A. Briere

A. Brueggemann

D. Cabiati

H. Cai

M.H. Cai

X. Cai

A. Calcaterra

G.F. Cao

N. Cao

Türkiye

S.A. Cetin

X.Y. Chai

J.F. Chang

T.T. Chang

G.R. Che

Y.Z. Che

C.H. Chen

Chao Chen

G. Chen

H.S. Chen

H.Y. Chen

M.L. Chen

S.J. Chen

S.M. Chen

T. Chen

W. Chen

X.R. Chen

X.T. Chen

X.Y. Chen

Y.B. Chen

Y.Q. Chen

Z.K. Chen

J. Cheng

L.N. Cheng

S.K. Choi

X. Chu

G. Cibinetto

F. Cossio

United Kingdom

J. Cottee-Meldrum

H.L. Dai

J.P. Dai

X.C. Dai

A. Dbeyssi

R.E. de Boer

D. Dedovich

C.Q. Deng

Z.Y. Deng

A. Denig

I. Denisenko

M. Destefanis

F. De Mori

E. Di Fiore

X.X. Ding

Y. Ding

Y.X. Ding

J. Dong

L.Y. Dong

M.Y. Dong

X. Dong

Z.J. Dong

M.C. Du

S.X. Du

Shaoxu Du

X.L. Du

Y.Q. Du

Y.Y. Duan

Z.H. Duan

P. Egorov

G.F. Fan

J.J. Fan

K.X. Fan

Y.H. Fan

J. Fang

Jin Fang

S.S. Fang

W.X. Fang

Observation of the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>χ</mi><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>J</mi></mrow></msub></math> decays into <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>p</mi><msup><mi>K</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><mover accent="true"><mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover><mi>η</mi><mo>+</mo><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">c</mi><mo>.</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">c</mi><mo>.</mo></mrow></math>

The <math altimg='si27.svg'><mrow><mi>j</mi><mo linebreak='goodbreak'>&#8722;</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></math> anomaly is associated with the atypical ordering of the <math altimg='si28.svg'><mrow><mn>7</mn><mo linebreak='goodbreak'>/</mo><msup><mn>2</mn><mo>+</mo></msup></mrow></math> and <math altimg='si29.svg'><mrow><mn>9</mn><mo linebreak='goodbreak'>/</mo><msup><mn>2</mn><mo>+</mo></msup></mrow></math> states, arising from the <math altimg='si30.svg'><mrow><mi>&#960;</mi><msubsup><mi>g</mi><mrow><mn>9</mn><mo>/</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow><mrow><mo>&#8722;</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></msubsup></mrow></math> multiplet. According to the shell model, <italic>M</italic>1 transitions between the states of the same- <italic>j</italic> multiplet are forbidden. Yet, such transitions are observed in odd-A Ag nuclei. Therefore, it is of upmost interest to study <italic>M</italic>1 transitions strengths. However, the only silver nucleus, where lifetime data exists to date is 101Ag, but this nucleus does not exhibit the anomalous trend, observed in the heavier Ag nuclei. Indeed, the lightest Ag nucleus, where the <math altimg='si27.svg'><mrow><mi>j</mi><mo linebreak='goodbreak'>&#8722;</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></math> anomaly occurs is 103Ag. Therefore, 103Ag is in the focus of the present article, where new lifetime data is acquired via RDDS measurements. Reduced electromagnetic transition probabilities are evaluated and compared to Empiric and Large-Scale Shell-Model calculations.

Bulgaria

S. Lalkovski

Ir.B. Vasilev

D. Ivanova

S. Kisyov

G. Stoev

India

B. Maheshwari

France

P. Van Isacker

Romania

R. Lica

C. Mihai

A. Turturica

L. Atanasova

R. Borcea

M. Boromiza

S. Calinescu

C. Clisu Stan

C. Costache

A. Gandhi

R. Marginean

N. Marginean

C. Müller-Gatermann

A. Olacel

N.L. Petrov

L. Stan

E.A. Stefanova

I. Stiru

S. Toma

G. Turturica

S. Ujeniuc

O. Yordanov

Onset of the <math altimg='si27.svg'><mrow><mi>j</mi><mo linebreak='goodbreak'>&#8722;</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></math> anomaly in 103Ag

Large numbers of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>J</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>ψ</mi></math> mesons can be resonantly produced at BESIII and STCF at the center-of-mass energy <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msqrt><mi>s</mi></msqrt><mo>=</mo><mn>3.097</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>GeV</mi></math>. Such <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>J</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>ψ</mi></math> mesons may undergo rare decays into an axionlike particle (ALP) <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>a</mi></math> and a dark photon <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mi>γ</mi><mo>′</mo></msup></math> through the dark axion portal. We investigate the exclusion reach of the existing BESIII dataset and the projected sensitivity of STCF, focusing on the monophoton signature. We perform Monte Carlo simulations of the signal and estimate both the irreducible <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>J</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>ψ</mi><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi>γ</mi><mi>ν</mi><mover accent="true"><mi>ν</mi><mo stretchy="false">¯</mo></mover></math> background and the continuum and resonant three-photon reducible backgrounds. Detector-induced migration of three-photon events into the mono-photon signal region is parametrized by the event-level leakage probability <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi>ε</mi><mrow><mn>3</mn><mi>γ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>leak</mi></mrow></msubsup><mo>=</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><msup><mn>10</mn><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>6</mn></mrow></msup><mo>,</mo><msup><mn>10</mn><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>4</mn></mrow></msup><mo>,</mo><msup><mn>10</mn><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></msup></math>. In the zero- and sufficiently small-leakage benchmarks, the existing BESIII dataset could probe previously unexplored parameter space, while STCF can further improve the coupling reach. Increasing leakage probabilities progressively weaken these projections, highlighting the importance of detector-level three-photon rejection in realizing the projected reach.

Zeren Simon Wang

Dazhuang He

Yu Zhang

Probing the dark axion portal via <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>J</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>ψ</mi></math> decays at BESIII and STCF

M-theory geometric engineering on manifolds of special holonomy yields a rich class of novel field theories. In this paper, we construct new 3d 𝒩 = 2 and 𝒩 = 4 gauge theories, realized as mass-deformations of theories with 16 supercharges, within this framework. These arise from non-compact 8d geometries given by fibrations of ℝ /Γ over Bieberbach 4-manifolds. The existence of consistent Spin(7)-structures on the 8d spaces requires the rotational holonomy of the Bieberbach spaces to act on the Sp(1)-structure of the fibers. Furthermore, we analyze Higgsing the 7d 𝒩 = 1 ADE gauge theories induced by the action of a permutation group on the centres of the corresponding ℝ /Γ spaces. We show that this operation admits a natural interpretation in terms of nilpotent, upper-triangular, Higgsing, although it breaks supersymmetry. Supersymmetry is restored by fibering the singular geometry over a compact internal space, whose structure group is chosen to coincide with the permutation group to implement the nilpotent Higgsing. We refer to such backgrounds as T-geometries, where “T” denotes the triangular nature of the nilpotent Higgsing. Within this framework, we investigate the nilpotent Higgsing of the 3d 𝒩 = 2 and 4d 𝒩 = 1 theories, where the rotational holonomy groups of the Bieberbach spaces realize the permutation groups. We demonstrate that the Higgs branch moduli are encoded by specific elements of the Slodowy slices associated with nilpotent elements. Moreover, we demonstrate that additional elements of the same slice give rise to non-chiral charged matter under the unbroken gauge algebra. We establish that both the Higgs branch moduli and the charged matter are massless and admit a natural interpretation as localized matter.

Marwan Najjar

M-theory and T-geometry: Higgs branch moduli and charged matter

We search for the reaction channel <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi>η</mi><mi>η</mi><mi>J</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>ψ</mi></math> in a data sample with center-of-mass energies from 4.226 to 4.950 GeV that was collected by the BESIII detector operating at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPCII). The data analysis is performed with two different reconstruction methods, exclusive and semi-inclusive, enabling a comparison and combination of the results. Only at a few energy points is a nonzero cross section observed with a statistical significance of more than <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mn>3</mn><mi>σ</mi></math> using one of the methods. Therefore, the corresponding upper limits of the cross section at the 90% confidence level are determined. The energy-dependent results show clear deviations from the line shape expected from three-body phase space alone. Since the statistical significance for almost all center-of-mass energies is low, the upper limits for the reaction channel <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi>η</mi><mi>η</mi><mi>J</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>ψ</mi></math> also serve as limits for the existence of a possible isospin partner to the charmonium-like isospin triplet <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>Z</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">c</mi></msub><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>3900</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math> which decays to <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>J</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>ψ</mi><mi>η</mi></math>.

Y. Ban

M. Bertani

S.L. Chen

Z. Chen

Z.J. Chen

J.J. Cui

I. Denysenko

B. Ding

Y.Q. Fang

R. Farinelli

L. Fava

F. Feldbauer

G. Felici

C.Q. Feng

J.H. Feng

L. Feng

Q.X. Feng

Search for the reaction channel <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi>η</mi><mi>η</mi><mi>J</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>ψ</mi></math> and the isospin partner of the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>Z</mi><mi>c</mi></msub><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>3900</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math> at center-of-mass energies <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msqrt><mi>s</mi></msqrt><mo>=</mo><mn>4.226</mn><mtext> </mtext><mi>−</mi><mtext> </mtext><mn>4.950</mn><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><mi>GeV</mi></math>

We investigate DC transport in a top-down construction of thermal QGP-like theories using a holographic $$ \mathcal{M} $$ -theoretic background, incorporating quartic curvature corrections. The DC and Hall conductivities are computed from the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action of the corresponding type-IIA probe $\textit{D}$6 flavor branes via the reality condition method proposed in [1, 2]. We further analyze pair-production contributions in the presence and absence of an external magnetic field and work out regimes where thermal pair production dominates over charge carrier transport. These findings extend earlier AdS/CFT results to non-conformal, higher-derivative settings relevant to thermal QGP-like theories.

Shivam Kushwah

Charge transport in magnetized holographic $$ \mathcal{M} $$ -QGP

Within the NRQCD factorization framework, we investigate the color-singlet contribution to $$ {e}^{+}{e}^{-}\to J/\psi +{X}_{\mathrm{non}\ c\overline{c}} $$ at B factories, computing the 𝒪($\textit{α}$ ), 𝒪($\textit{v}$ ), and 𝒪($\textit{α}$ $\textit{v}$ ) corrections to both the unpolarized cross section and the $\textit{J}$/$\textit{ψ}$ angular distribution. The 𝒪($\textit{α}$ $\textit{v}$ ) correction is obtained for the first time, and the validity of NRQCD factorization at this order is explicitly verified. Using the differential equation method, the short-distance coefficients are obtained as asymptotic expansions in $$ r={m}_c/\sqrt{s} $$ up to $\textit{r}$ , which reproduce exact results with high precision at B factory energies, achieving relative errors around 10 for the cross section and around 10 for the angular distribution. Notably, with the same input parameters, our 𝒪($\textit{α}$ ) and 𝒪($\textit{v}$ ) corrections are consistent with those reported in the literature. Phenomenologically, the 𝒪($\textit{α}$ ) correction (with $$ {\mu}_R=\sqrt{s}/2 $$ ) reaches about 50% of the leading-order cross section, while the 𝒪($\textit{v}$ ) and 𝒪($\textit{α}$ $\textit{v}$ ) corrections are accidentally small. After including feeddown contributions from $\textit{ψ}$(2$\textit{S}$), the predicted cross section $$ {0.523}_{-0.197}^{+0.285} $$ pb agrees with the Belle measurement within uncertainties. However, the predicted angular distribution parameter $$ {0.120}_{-0.036}^{+0.041} $$ deviates from the experimental value 5.71 ± 2.51 by more than 2$\textit{σ}$, calling for further experimental and theoretical investigations.

Cong Li

Hao-Yang Liu

Xu-Dong Huang

Wen-Long Sang

Semi-analytical results for $$ {e}^{+}{e}^{-}\to J/\psi +{X}_{\mathrm{non}\ c\overline{c}} $$ up to 𝒪($\textit{α}$ $\textit{s}$ $\textit{v}$ 2) at B factories

Currently, the kinetic mass is defined in terms of the pole mass and operators at order $$1/{m}_{Q}^{2}$$ , which are known to N LO accuracy in $\textit{α}$ . At the same time, the Heavy Quark Expansion (HQE) for inclusive semileptonic decays is known up to and including terms of order $$1/{m}_{Q}^{5}$$ . Therefore, it is desirable to extend the definition of the kinetic mass to higher orders in 1/$\textit{m}$ . The original kinetic mass is based on the hadron-mass formula in Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET). However, the HQE is formulated in terms of matrix elements defined in full QCD to avoid the appearance of non-local matrix elements. To match this, we develop a definition of the kinetic mass rooted in full QCD. Starting from the hadron-mass formula derived from the energy-momentum tensor of full QCD, we define a relation between a general mass and the pole mass. Using a simple cut-off scheme, we compute a generalized kinetic mass at one loop to all powers of 1/$\textit{m}$ , which reproduces the well-known results for the kinetic mass up to $$1/{m}_{Q}^{2}$$ . Our approach opens the road to a consistent use of the kinetic mass at higher-orders in the heavy quark expansion.

Thomas Mannel

Extending the kinetic mass to higher orders in 1$\textit{/m}$ $\textit{Q}$