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A subtraction scheme for computing QCD jet cross sections at NNLO: integrating the iterated singly-unresolved subtraction terms

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-05-10 v2

Abstract

We perform the integration of all iterated singly-unresolved subtraction terms, as defined in ref. [1], over the two-particle factorized phase space. We also sum over the unresolved parton flavours. The final result can be written as a convolution (in colour space) of the Born cross section and an insertion operator. We spell out the insertion operator in terms of 24 basic integrals that are defined explicitly. We compute the coefficients of the Laurent-expansion of these integrals in two different ways, with the method of Mellin-Barnes representations and sector decomposition. Finally, we present the Laurent-expansion of the full insertion operator for the specific examples of electron-positron annihilation into two and three jets.

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@article{arxiv.1011.1909,
  title  = {A subtraction scheme for computing QCD jet cross sections at NNLO: integrating the iterated singly-unresolved subtraction terms},
  author = {Paolo Bolzoni and Gabor Somogyi and Zoltan Trocsanyi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.1909},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

83 pages, one reference added, typos corrected, agrees with published version

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