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Hadronic decays of the spin-singlet heavy quarkomium under the principle of maximum conformality

The principle of maximum conformality (PMC) provides a way to eliminate the conventional renormalization scale ambiguity in a systematic way. By applying the PMC scale setting, all non-conformal terms in perturbative series are summed into the running coupling, and one obtains a unique, scale-fixed prediction at any finite order. In the paper, we make a detailed PMC analysis for the spin-singlet heavy quarkoniums decay (into light hadrons) at the next-to-leading order. After applying the PMC scale setting, the decay widths for all those cases are almost independent of the initial renormalization scales. The PMC scales for $η_c$ and $h_c$ decays are below $1$ GeV, in order to achieve a confidential pQCD estimation, we adopt several low-energy running coupling models to do the estimation. By taking the MPT model, we obtain: $Γ(η_{c} \to LH)=25.09^{+5.52}_{-4.28}$ MeV, $Γ(η_{b} \to LH)=14.34^{+0.92}_{-0.84}$ MeV, $Γ(h_{c} \to LH)=0.54^{+0.06}_{-0.04}$ MeV and $Γ(h_{b} \to LH)=39.89^{+0.28}_{-0.46}$ KeV, where the errors are calculated by taking $m_{c}\in[1.40\rm GeV,1.60\rm GeV]$ and $m_{b}\in[4.50\rm GeV,4.70\rm GeV]$. These decay widths agree with the principle of minimum sensitivity estimations, in which the decay widths of $η_{c,b}$ are also consistent with the measured ones.