Azimuthal asymmetries in QCD hard scattering: infrared safe but divergent

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)017MaRDI QIDQ683103zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefano Catani, Massimiliano Grazzini, Hayk Sargsyan

Publication date 5 February 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08468

zbMATH Keywords

resummationperturbative QCDhard scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) (n)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U10)

Abstract: We consider high-mass systems of two or more particles that are produced by QCD hard scattering in hadronic collisions. We examine the azimuthal correlations between the system and one of its particles. We point out that the perturbative QCD computation of such azimuthal correlations and asymmetries can lead to divergent results at fixed perturbative orders. The fixed-order divergences affect basic (and infrared safe) quantities such as the total cross section at fixed (and arbitrary) values of the azimuthal-correlation angle $varphi$. Examples of processes with fixed-order divergences are heavy-quark pair production, associated production of vector bosons and jets, dijet and diboson production. A noticeable exception is the production of high-mass lepton pairs through the Drell--Yan mechanism of quark-antiquark annihilation. However, even in the Drell--Yan process, fixed-order divergences arise in the computation of QED radiative corrections. We specify general conditions that produce the divergences by discussing their physical origin in fixed-order computations. We show lowest-order illustrative results for $cos(nvarphi)$ asymmetries (with $n=1,2,4,6$) in top-quark pair production and associated production of a vector boson and a jet at the LHC. The divergences are removed by a proper all-order resummation procedure of the perturbative contributions. Resummation leads to azimuthal asymmetries that are finite and computable. We present first quantitative results of such a resummed computation for the $cos(2varphi)$ asymmetry in top-quark pair production at the LHC.

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