The method of regions and next-to-soft corrections in Drell-Yan production

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DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.02.008zbMATH Open1345.81120arXiv1410.6406OpenAlexW2118936355MaRDI QIDQ315934FDOQ315934


Authors: Chris D. White, D. Bonocore, E. Laenen, L. Magnea, Leonardo Vernazza Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 26 September 2016

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

Abstract: We perform a case study of the behavior of gluon radiation beyond the soft approximation, using as an example the Drell-Yan production cross section at NNLO. We draw a careful distinction between the eikonal expansion, which is in powers of the soft gluon energies, and the expansion in powers of the threshold variable 1z, which involves important hard-collinear effects. Focusing on the contribution to the NNLO Drell-Yan K-factor arising from real-virtual interference, we use the method of regions to classify all relevant contributions up to next-to-leading power in the threshold expansion. With this method, we reproduce the exact two-loop result to the required accuracy, including z-independent non-logarithmic contributions, and we precisely identify the origin of the soft-collinear interference which breaks simple soft-gluon factorization at next-to-eikonal level. Our results pave the way for the development of a general factorisation formula for next-to-leading-power threshold logarithms, and clarify the nature of loop corrections to a set of recently proposed next-to-soft theorems.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6406




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