Direct photon production with effective field theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2010)040zbMATH Open1270.81215arXiv0911.0681MaRDI QIDQ360840FDOQ360840

Authors: T. Becher, Matthew D. Schwartz 

Publication date: 27 August 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The production of hard photons in hadronic collisions is studied using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET). This is the first application of SCET to a physical, observable cross section involving energetic partons in more than two directions. A factorization formula is derived which involves a non-trivial interplay of the angular dependence in the hard and soft functions, both quark and gluon jet functions, and multiple partonic channels. The relevant hard, jet and soft functions are computed to one loop and their anomalous dimensions are determined to three loops. The final resummed inclusive direct photon distribution is valid to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic order (NNLL), one order beyond previous work. The result is improved by including non-logarithmic terms and photon isolation cuts through matching, and compared to Tevatron data and to fixed order results at the Tevatron and the LHC. The resummed cross section has a significantly smaller theoretical uncertainty than the next-to-leading fixed-order result, particularly at high transverse momentum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0681

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupQCDhadronic collidersjets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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