Threshold resummation at N^3LL accuracy and soft-virtual cross sections at N^3LO

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.09.012zbMATH Open1326.81267arXiv1405.4827OpenAlexW2012554480WikidataQ59314989 ScholiaQ59314989MaRDI QIDQ895330FDOQ895330

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

Publication date: 2 December 2015

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. We show that the recent computation of the soft-virtual corrections to Higgs boson production at N${}^3$LO [1] together with the universality structure of soft-gluon emission can be exploited to extract the general expression of the hard-virtual coefficient that contributes to threshold resummation at N${}^3$LL accuracy. The hard-virtual coefficient is directly related to the process-dependent virtual amplitude through a universal (process-independent) factorization formula that we explicitly evaluate up to three-loop order. As an application, we present the explicit expression of the soft-virtual N${}^3$LO corrections for the production of an arbitrary colourless system. In the case of the Drell-Yan process, we confirm the recent result of Ref.[2].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4827

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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