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Title: Direct Photon Production at Next-to–Next-to-Leading Order

Abstract

Here, we present the first calculation of direct photon production at next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) accuracy in QCD. For this process, although the final state cuts mandate only the presence of a single electroweak boson, the underlying kinematics resembles that of a generic vector boson plus jet topology. In order to regulate the infrared singularities present at this order we use the $$N$$-jettiness slicing procedure, applied for the first time to a final state that at Born level includes colored partons but no required jet. We compare our predictions to ATLAS 8 TeV data and find that the inclusion of the NNLO terms in the perturbative expansion, supplemented by electroweak corrections, provides an excellent description of the data with greatly reduced theoretical uncertainties.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  2. Univ. of Durham, Durham (United Kingdom)
  3. The State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1345624
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1361002
Report Number(s):
IPPP-16-115; FERMILAB-PUB-16-585-T; arXiv:1612.04333
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; 1503171
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 118; Journal Issue: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Campbell, John M., Ellis, R. Keith, and Williams, Ciaran. Direct Photon Production at Next-to–Next-to-Leading Order. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.222001.
Campbell, John M., Ellis, R. Keith, & Williams, Ciaran. Direct Photon Production at Next-to–Next-to-Leading Order. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.222001
Campbell, John M., Ellis, R. Keith, and Williams, Ciaran. Wed . "Direct Photon Production at Next-to–Next-to-Leading Order". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.222001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1345624.
@article{osti_1345624,
title = {Direct Photon Production at Next-to–Next-to-Leading Order},
author = {Campbell, John M. and Ellis, R. Keith and Williams, Ciaran},
abstractNote = {Here, we present the first calculation of direct photon production at next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) accuracy in QCD. For this process, although the final state cuts mandate only the presence of a single electroweak boson, the underlying kinematics resembles that of a generic vector boson plus jet topology. In order to regulate the infrared singularities present at this order we use the $N$-jettiness slicing procedure, applied for the first time to a final state that at Born level includes colored partons but no required jet. We compare our predictions to ATLAS 8 TeV data and find that the inclusion of the NNLO terms in the perturbative expansion, supplemented by electroweak corrections, provides an excellent description of the data with greatly reduced theoretical uncertainties.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.222001},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 22,
volume = 118,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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