Transverse-momentum resummation for heavy-quark hadroproduction

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.11.019zbMATH Open1326.81268arXiv1408.4564OpenAlexW1979853076MaRDI QIDQ895415FDOQ895415

Stefano Catani, Alessandro Torre, Massimiliano Grazzini

Publication date: 2 December 2015

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

Abstract: We consider the production of a pair of heavy quarks ($$) in hadronic collisions. When the transverse momentum $q_T$ of the heavy-quark pair is much smaller than its invariant mass, the QCD perturbative expansion is affected by large logarithmic terms that must be resummed to all-orders. This behavior is well known from the simpler case of hadroproduction of colourless high-mass systems, such as vector or Higgs boson(s). In the case of $$ production, the final-state heavy quarks carry colour charge and are responsible for additional soft radiation (through direct emission and interferences with initial-state radiation) that complicates the evaluation of the logarithmically-enhanced terms in the small-$q_T$ region. We present the all-order resummation structure of the logarithmic contributions, which includes colour flow evolution factors due to soft wide-angle radiation. Resummation is performed at the completely differential level with respect to the kinematical variables of the produced heavy quarks. Soft-parton radiation produces azimuthal correlations that are fully taken into account by the resummation formalism. These azimuthal correlations are entangled with those that are produced by initial-state collinear radiation. We present explicit analytical results up to next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4564

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zbMATH Keywords

all-order resummation structure

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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