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$q_T$-slicing with multiple jets
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Modern collider phenomenology requires unprecedented precision for the theoretical predictions, for which slicing techniques provide an essential tool at next-to-next-to-leading order in the strong coupling. The most popular slicing variable is based on the transverse momentum $q_T$ of a color-singlet final state, but its generalization to final states with jets is known to be very difficult. Here we propose two generalizations of $q_T$ that can be used for jet processes, providing proof of concept with an NLO slicing for $pp \to 2$ jets and presenting factorization formulae that pave the way for extending our approach to NNLO. One of these extensions only applies to planar Born processes, such as $pp \to 2$ jets, but offers a dramatic simplification of the soft function. We also discuss how our approach can directly be extended to obtain predictions for the fragmentation of hadrons. This presents a promising path for high-precision QCD calculations with multi-jet final states.<br />Comment: 4 pages + supplemental material, 4 figures
- Subjects :
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2412.05358
- Document Type :
- Working Paper