DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: The Energy-Energy Correlation in the back-to-back limit at N3LO and N3LL'

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
 [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [2]
  1. Max Planck Inst. fuer Physik, Munich (Germany); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

We present the analytic formula for the Energy-Energy Correlation (EEC) in electron-positron annihilation computed in perturbative QCD to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO) in the back-to-back limit. In particular, we consider the EEC arising from the annihilation of an electron-positron pair into a virtual photon as well as a Higgs boson and their subsequent inclusive decay into hadrons. Our computation is based on a factorization theorem of the EEC formulated within Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) for the back-to-back limit. We obtain the last missing ingredient for our computation — the jet function — from a recent calculation of the transverse-momentum dependent fragmentation function (TMDFF) at N3LO. We combine the newly obtained N3LO jet function with the well known hard and soft function to predict the EEC in the back-to-back limit. The leading transcendental contribution of our analytic formula agrees with previously obtained results in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We obtain the N = 2 Mellin moment of the bulk region of the EEC using momentum sum rules. Finally, we obtain the first resummation of the EEC in the back-to-back limit at N3LL' accuracy, resulting in a factor of ~ 4 reduction of uncertainties in the peak region compared to N3LL predictions.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; SC0011090
OSTI ID:
1819452
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 2021; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer NatureCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (128)

Higher-order Sudakov resummation in coupled gauge theories journal March 2020
Subleading power rapidity divergences and power corrections for qT journal April 2019
The full four-loop cusp anomalous dimension in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 super Yang-Mills and QCD journal April 2020
Transverse energy-energy correlations: A test of perturbative QCD for the proton-antiproton collider journal July 1984
The three-loop QCD β-function and anomalous dimensions journal April 1993
Event shapes in N=4 super-Yang–Mills theory journal July 2014
A subtraction scheme for computing QCD jet cross sections at NNLO: regularization of real-virtual emission journal January 2007
Collinear limit of the energy-energy correlator journal July 2019
Quark and gluon form factors to three loops text January 2009
Adler Function, Sum Rules and Crewther Relation of Order O(alpha_s^4): the Singlet Case text January 2012
From correlation functions to event shapes text January 2013
QCD evolution of (un)polarized gluon TMDPDFs and the Higgs $q_T$-distribution text January 2015
A Subleading Operator Basis and Matching for $gg \to H$ text January 2017
Matter dependence of the four-loop cusp anomalous dimension text January 2019
Power corrections to event shapes and factorization text January 1999
Second order logarithmic corrections to the Drell-Yan cross-section journal December 1988
Two-jet cross section ine + e − annihilation journal December 1987
The principle of maximal transcendentality and the four-loop collinear anomalous dimension journal January 2018
e+e− angularity distributions at NNLL′ accuracy journal January 2019
Energy correlations in the end-point region journal January 2020
Transverse parton distribution and fragmentation functions at NNLO: the gluon case journal January 2020
The light-ray OPE and conformal colliders journal January 2021
Resummation of transverse momentum distributions in distribution space journal February 2017
Fermionic Glauber operators and quark reggeization journal February 2018
Four-loop quark form factor with quartic fundamental colour factor journal February 2019
From correlation functions to event shapes in QCD journal February 2021
Rapidity renormalized TMD soft and beam functions at two loops journal March 2016
Four-loop photon quark form factor and cusp anomalous dimension in the large-N c limit of QCD journal March 2017
Joint two-dimensional resummation in qT and 0-jettiness at NNLL journal March 2019
Higher-order Sudakov resummation in coupled gauge theories journal March 2020
Analytic results for massless three-loop form factors journal April 2010
Higgs production with a central jet veto at NNLL+NNLO journal April 2011
Comparing and counting logs in direct and effective methods of QCD resummation journal April 2014
Subleading power rapidity divergences and power corrections for qT journal April 2019
The full four-loop cusp anomalous dimension in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 super Yang-Mills and QCD journal April 2020
A formalism for the systematic treatment of rapidity logarithms in Quantum Field Theory journal May 2012
Higgs-boson production at small transverse momentum journal May 2013
Resummation improved rapidity spectrum for gluon fusion Higgs production journal May 2017
Matter dependence of the four-loop QCD cusp anomalous dimension: from small angles to all angles journal May 2019
Calculation of the quark and gluon form factors to three loops in QCD journal June 2010
Analytic next-to-leading order calculation of energy-energy correlation in gluon-initiated Higgs decays journal June 2019
Unpolarized quark and gluon TMD PDFs and FFs at N3LO journal June 2021
QCD evolution of (un)polarized gluon TMDPDFs and the Higgs qT -distribution journal July 2015
A subleading operator basis and matching for gg → H journal July 2017
Subleading power resummation of rapidity logarithms: the energy-energy correlator in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SYM journal July 2020
On Higgs decays to hadrons and the R-ratio at N4LO journal August 2017
Simplicity from recoil: the three-loop soft function and factorization for the energy-energy correlation journal August 2018
The quark beam function at NNLL journal September 2010
Towards quasi-transverse momentum dependent PDFs computable on the lattice journal September 2019
Transverse momentum dependent PDFs at N3LO journal September 2020
Collinear expansion for color singlet cross sections journal September 2020
Higher-spin correlators journal October 2013
Four-loop non-singlet splitting functions in the planar limit and beyond journal October 2017
Transverse parton distribution and fragmentation functions at NNLO: the quark case journal October 2019
A complete basis of helicity operators for subleading factorization journal November 2017
Transverse-energy-energy correlations in deep inelastic scattering journal November 2020
On the transverse spread of QCD jets journal January 1979
The gell-mann-low function of QCD in the three-loop approximation journal June 1980
Summing soft emission in QCD journal April 1982
Single logarithm effects in electron-positron annihilation journal April 1983
Transverse energy-energy correlations: A test of perturbative QCD for the proton-antiproton collider journal July 1984
The three-loop QCD β-function and anomalous dimensions journal April 1993
Back-to-back jets in QCD journal December 1981
Back-to-back jets: Fourier transform from b to kT journal April 1982
Renormalization of the Wilson loops beyond the leading order journal January 1987
The calculation of the second order soft and virtual contributions to the Drell-Yan cross section journal June 1989
Virtual corrections to gg→H to two loops in the heavy top limit journal October 2000
Invariant operators in collinear effective theory journal September 2001
The four-loop β-function in quantum chromodynamics journal May 1997
Power corrections to event shapes and factorization journal August 1999
The three-loop splitting functions in QCD: the non-singlet case journal June 2004
The three-loop splitting functions in QCD: the singlet case journal July 2004
The back-to-back region in energy–energy correlation journal January 2005
The four-loop QCD β-function and anomalous dimensions journal March 2005
Event shapes in N=4 super-Yang–Mills theory journal July 2014
From correlation functions to event shapes journal July 2014
An exponential regulator for rapidity divergences journal November 2020
Two-loop quark and gluon form factors in dimensional regularisation journal September 2005
Three-loop results for quark and gluon form factors journal October 2005
Adler function, sum rules and Crewther relation of order O(αs4): The singlet case journal July 2012
Foundations of Perturbative QCD book May 2011
The quark form factor at higher orders journal August 2005
A subtraction scheme for computing QCD jet cross sections at NNLO: regularization of real-virtual emission journal January 2007
A subtraction scheme for computing QCD jet cross sections at NNLO: regularization of doubly-real emissions journal January 2007
Conformal collider physics: energy and charge correlations journal May 2008
A precise determination of α s from LEP thrust data using effective field theory journal July 2008
Universal structure of subleading infrared poles in gauge theory amplitudes journal August 2008
Analytic integration of real-virtual counterterms in NNLO jet cross sections I journal September 2008
Analytic continuation and reciprocity relation for collinear splitting in QCD * journal April 2021
Collinear limit of the energy-energy correlator journal July 2019
Energy-energy correlation in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory at next-to-next-to-leading order journal August 2019
Transverse-momentum-dependent factorization for lattice observables journal April 2020
Collins-Soper kernel for TMD evolution from lattice QCD journal July 2020
Rethinking jets with energy correlators: Tracks, resummation, and analytic continuation journal September 2020
Energy-energy correlators in deep inelastic scattering journal May 2021
Summing Sudakov logarithms in B → X s γ in effective field theory journal December 2000
An effective field theory for collinear and soft gluons: Heavy to light decays journal May 2001
Soft-collinear factorization in effective field theory journal February 2002
Iteration of planar amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at three loops and beyond journal October 2005
Thrust at N 3 LL with power corrections and a precision global fit for α s ( m Z ) journal April 2011
Jet p T resummation in Higgs production at NNLL ′ + NNLO journal March 2014
Precise determination of α s from the C -parameter distribution journal May 2015
Gluon jet function at three loops in QCD journal November 2018
Determining the nonperturbative Collins-Soper kernel from lattice QCD journal February 2019
Quark and Gluon Form Factors to Three Loops journal May 2009
Complete O ( α s 4 ) QCD Corrections to Hadronic Z Decays journal May 2012
Energy-Energy Correlations in N = 4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory journal February 2014
Three-Jet Production in Electron-Positron Collisions at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Accuracy journal October 2016
Bootstrapping Rapidity Anomalous Dimensions for Transverse-Momentum Resummation journal January 2017
Correspondence between Soft and Rapidity Anomalous Dimensions journal February 2017
Analytical Computation of Energy-Energy Correlation at Next-to-Leading Order in QCD journal March 2018
Three-Loop Quark Jet Function journal August 2018
Matter Dependence of the Four-Loop Cusp Anomalous Dimension journal May 2019
Precision QCD Event Shapes at Hadron Colliders: The Transverse Energy-Energy Correlator in the Back-to-Back Limit journal August 2019
Quark Transverse Parton Distribution at the Next-to-Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order journal March 2020
Cusp and Collinear Anomalous Dimensions in Four-Loop QCD from Form Factors journal April 2020
Lattice QCD Calculations of Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Soft Function through Large-Momentum Effective Theory journal November 2020
Self-Contained Definition of the Collins-Soper Kernel journal November 2020
Quantum Interference in Jet Substructure from Spinning Gluons journal March 2021
Energy Correlations in Electron-Positron Annihilation: Testing Quantum Chromodynamics journal December 1978
Universality of Soft and Collinear Factors in Hard-Scattering Factorization journal December 2004
Drell–Yan production at small q T , transverse parton distributions and the collinear anomaly journal June 2011
Energy–energy correlation in electron–positron annihilation at NNLL + NNLO accuracy journal November 2017
Precise determination of $$\alpha _{S}(M_Z)$$ α S ( M Z ) from a global fit of energy–energy correlation to NNLO+NNLL predictions journal June 2018
Transverse energy–energy correlations of jets in the electron–proton deep inelastic scattering at HERA journal November 2020
A toolbox for $$q_{T}$$ and 0-jettiness subtractions at $$\hbox {N}^3\hbox {LO}$$ journal February 2021
Harmonic Polylogarithms journal February 2000
The large $N$ limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity journal January 1998

Similar Records

TMD fragmentation functions at N3LO
Journal Article · 2021 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) · OSTI ID:1819723

The transverse momentum distribution of hadrons within jets
Journal Article · 2017 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) · OSTI ID:1420109

Transverse momentum dependent PDFs at N3LO
Journal Article · 2020 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) · OSTI ID:1711418