Bound-state production in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO

5 May 2026, 14:50
20m
Sala GIOVE A, Ground Floor (Hotel Carlton)

Sala GIOVE A, Ground Floor

Hotel Carlton

Talk WG4 QCD with Heavy Flavors and Hadronic Final States WG4 QCD with Heavy flavours and Hadronic Final States

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Alice Colpani Serri (Warsaw University of Technology (WUT))

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In this talk, I present the first implementation in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO for bound-state production, including quarkonium, leptonium, and $B_c$ mesons within Non-Relativistic QCD and Non-Relativistic QED. I focus on the extension of MadGraph5_aMC@NLO to quarkonium states, the simplest bound states in QCD, and describe the capabilities of the new framework for inclusive and associated S-wave quarkonium production in a wide variety of experimental environments at Leading Order (LO). I present a comprehensive benchmarking of the LO implementation in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO against Helac-Onia, demonstrating excellent agreement and validating the approach. I further illustrate the expanded functionality of the tool, enabling phenomenological studies that complement and extend the current state of the art. These developments provide the community with a unified, automated, and efficient framework for bound-state production in QED and QCD, and establish a solid foundation for our future next-to-leading-order extensions.

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