Soft evolution of multi-jet final states
Abstract
We present a new framework for computing resummed and matched distributions in processes with many hard QCD jets. The intricate color structure of soft gluon emission at large angles renders resummed calculations highly non-trivial in this case. We automate all ingredients necessary for the color evolution of the soft function at next-to-leading-logarithmic accuracy, namely the selection of the color bases and the projections of color operators and Born amplitudes onto those bases. Explicit results for all QCD processes with up to 2 → 5 partons are given. We also devise a new tree-level matching scheme for resummed calculations which exploits a quasi-local subtraction based on the Catani-Seymour dipole formalism. We implement both resummation and matching in the Sherpa event generator. As a proof of concept, we compute the resummed and matched transverse-thrust distribution for hadronic collisions.
- Authors:
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- Gottingen Univ. (Germany)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- MIT (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1185177
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-16143
Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479; TRN: US1500520
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2015; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; HEPPH
Citation Formats
Gerwick, Erik, Schumann, Steffen, Höche, Stefan, and Marzani, Simone. Soft evolution of multi-jet final states. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2015)106.
Gerwick, Erik, Schumann, Steffen, Höche, Stefan, & Marzani, Simone. Soft evolution of multi-jet final states. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2015)106
Gerwick, Erik, Schumann, Steffen, Höche, Stefan, and Marzani, Simone. Mon .
"Soft evolution of multi-jet final states". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2015)106. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1185177.
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title = {Soft evolution of multi-jet final states},
author = {Gerwick, Erik and Schumann, Steffen and Höche, Stefan and Marzani, Simone},
abstractNote = {We present a new framework for computing resummed and matched distributions in processes with many hard QCD jets. The intricate color structure of soft gluon emission at large angles renders resummed calculations highly non-trivial in this case. We automate all ingredients necessary for the color evolution of the soft function at next-to-leading-logarithmic accuracy, namely the selection of the color bases and the projections of color operators and Born amplitudes onto those bases. Explicit results for all QCD processes with up to 2 → 5 partons are given. We also devise a new tree-level matching scheme for resummed calculations which exploits a quasi-local subtraction based on the Catani-Seymour dipole formalism. We implement both resummation and matching in the Sherpa event generator. As a proof of concept, we compute the resummed and matched transverse-thrust distribution for hadronic collisions.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP02(2015)106},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 2,
volume = 2015,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 EST 2015}
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