Hadronization and decay of excited heavy hadrons in Herwig 7

Masouminia, M. R.; Richardson, P.

Abstract

We revisit the hadronization and decay of excited heavy mesons and heavy baryons in Herwig 7 general-purpose event-generator, following four distinct steps: (i) Passing through the polarisation of heavy hadrons at the end of parton shower through the application of heavy quark effective theory (HQET), where the emergence of a spin-flavour symmetry allows for the determination of the polarisations of the excited heavy mesons and heavy baryons from the helicity states of the light and heavy quarks. (ii) Improving the strong and radiative decay modes of the excited heavy mesons, where in the absence of conclusive experimental data on many of the decays, one needs to rely on HQET symmetries to determine the favoured decay modes, widths and branching ratios. (iii) Re-examination of the production rates of heavy hadrons using all available experimental data sources and (iv) performing a general tune for Herwig’s free parameters to reflect the implemented changes. We compare our predictions against existing experimental data in the presence/absence of the newly implemented updates. These improvements will be available with Herwig-7.3.0 public release.

Citation

Masouminia, M. R., & Richardson, P. (2024). Hadronization and decay of excited heavy hadrons in Herwig 7. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024(7), Article 278. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282024%29278

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 6, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Jul 30, 2024
• Publication Date: 2024-07
• Deposit Date: Aug 16, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 16, 2024
• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Print ISSN: 1126-6708
• Electronic ISSN: 1029-8479
• Publisher: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2024
• Issue: 7
• Article Number: 278
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282024%29278
• Keywords: Nonperturbative Effects, Effective Field Theories of QCD, Specific QCD Phenomenology, Properties of Hadrons
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2739694