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Antenna subtraction for jet production observables in full colour at NNLO

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-10-26 v1

Abstract

We describe the details of the calculation of the full colour NNLO QCD corrections to jet production observables at the LHC with antenna subtraction. All relevant matrix elements for the process ppjjpp \to jj at NNLO in full colour are colour-decomposed and given in a NcN_c and nfn_f expansion, making identification of leading and subleading colour contributions transparent. The colour-ordered antenna subtraction method has previously successfully been used to construct the NNLO subtraction terms for processes with up to five partons or in the leading colour approximation. However, it is challenged by the more involved subleading colour structure of the squared matrix elements in processes with six or more partons. Here, we describe the methods needed to successfully construct the NNLO subtraction terms for the subleading colour contributions to dijet production within the antenna subtraction formalism.

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@article{arxiv.2208.02115,
  title  = {Antenna subtraction for jet production observables in full colour at NNLO},
  author = {X. Chen and T. Gehrmann and E. W. N. Glover and J. Mo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.02115},
  year   = {2022}
}

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65 pages, 2 figures