Universality of transverse-momentum resummation and hard factors at the NNLO

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.02.011zbMATH Open1284.81281arXiv1311.1654OpenAlexW1987917917WikidataQ59314991 ScholiaQ59314991MaRDI QIDQ2443535FDOQ2443535

Authors: Stefano Catani, Leandro Cieri, Daniel de Florian, Giancarlo Ferrera, Massimiliano Grazzini 

Publication date: 7 April 2014

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of colourless high-mass systems in hadron collisions. The logarithmically-enhanced contributions at small transverse momentum are treated to all perturbative orders by a universal resummation formula that depends on a single process-dependent hard factor. We show that the hard factor is directly related to the all-order virtual amplitude of the corresponding partonic process. The direct relation is universal (process independent), and it is expressed by an all-order factorization formula that we explicitly evaluate up to the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. Once the NNLO scattering amplitude is available, the corresponding hard factor is directly determined: it controls NNLO contributions in resummed calculations at full next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, and it can be used in applications of the q_T subtraction formalism to perform fully-exclusive perturbative calculations up to NNLO. The universality structure of the hard factor and its explicit NNLO form are also extended to the related formalism of threshold resummation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1654

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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