Four-dimensional formulation of the sector-improved residue subtraction scheme

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.11.006zbMATH Open1326.81237arXiv1408.2500OpenAlexW1983313622MaRDI QIDQ895396FDOQ895396

D. Heymes, Michał Czakon

Publication date: 2 December 2015

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

Abstract: Four years ago, one of us introduced a novel subtraction scheme for the evaluation of double-real radiation contributions to cross sections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD. This approach, named SecToR Improved Phase sPacE for Real radiation (STRIPPER), has already found several non-trivial applications. In particular, it has allowed for the determination of NNLO corrections to hadronic top-quark pair production, fully differential top-quark decays, inclusive semileptonic charmless b-quark decays, associated Higgs boson and jet production in gluon fusion, muon decay spin asymmetry, and t-channel single-top production. Common to these calculations was the use of conventional dimensional regularization (CDR). In this publication, we present a complete formulation of the subtraction scheme for arbitrary processes with any number of colored partons in the final state, and up to two partons in the initial state. Furthermore, we modify the integrated subtraction terms of the double-real radiation to enable the introduction of the 't Hooft-Veltman version of dimensional regularization (HV), in which resolved states are four-dimensional. We demonstrate the correctness of our approach on the example of top-quark pair production in the gluon fusion channel.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.2500

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zbMATH Keywords

't Hooft-Veltman version of dimensional regularization

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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