Soft function for exclusive N-jet production at hadron colliders
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Jouttenus, Teppo Tapani; Tackmann, Frank; Waalewijn, Wouter J.; Stewart, Iain W
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The N-jettiness event shape divides phase space into N+2 regions, each containing one jet or beam. Using a geometric measure, these regions correspond to jets with circular boundaries. We give a factorization theorem for the cross section fully differential in the mass of each jet, and compute the corresponding soft function at next-to-leading order (NLO). The ultraviolet divergences are analytically extracted by exploiting hemispheres for interactions between each pair of hard partons, leaving only convergent integrals that are sensitive to the precise boundaries. This hemisphere decomposition can also be applied to other N-jet soft functions, including other observables. For N-jettiness, the final result for the soft function involves stable one-dimensional numerical integrals, and all ingredients are now available to extend NLO cross sections to resummed predictions at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic order.
Date issued
2011-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Jouttenus, Teppo et al. “Soft Function for Exclusive N-jet Production at Hadron Colliders.” Physical Review D 83.11 (2011) : n. pag. © 2011 American Physical Society
Version: Final published version
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1550-7998
1550-2368