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Analytical results for the C-angularity soft function at NNLO

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-12-30 v1

Abstract

We compute the soft function at NLO and NNLO for a one-parameter family of event shapes we call C-angularity. This family contains C-parameter as a specific choice of the parameter, in close analogy with how conventional angularity contains thrust as a special case. By construction, C-angularity and angularity coincide in the collinear limit such that the anomalous dimensions are equal. However, unlike angularity, C-angularity is a continuously differentiable function of the final state momenta, which makes the analytic calculation of the C-angularity soft function simpler. We obtain analytical results for the C-angularity soft function and anomalous dimension as an expansion in the C-angularity parameter aa, to third and fourth order in aa respectively. These expansions yield results that are accurate at the few per mille level for 1a<1-1\le a < 1.

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@article{arxiv.2512.23398,
  title  = {Analytical results for the C-angularity soft function at NNLO},
  author = {Alexander Bennett and Emmet P. Byrne and Jonathan R. Gaunt and Elsa C. Lang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.23398},
  year   = {2025}
}

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19 pages, 4 figures

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