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Comment on Resummation of Mass Distribution for Jets Initiated by Massive Quarks

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-01-16 v2

Abstract

We compute in the heavy quark effective theory the soft coefficient D_2 entering the resummation of next-to-next-to-leading threshold logarithms for jets initiated by a quark with a small mass compared to the hard scale of the process. We find complete agreement with a previous computation in full QCD. Contrary to our previous guess, this coefficient turns out to be different from that one entering heavy flavor decay or heavy flavor fragmentation.

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@article{arxiv.0804.3922,
  title  = {Comment on Resummation of Mass Distribution for Jets Initiated by Massive Quarks},
  author = {Ugo Aglietti and Leonardo Di Giustino and Giancarlo Ferrera and Luca Trentadue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3922},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, no figures; minor changes, references added, version accepted in Phys.Lett. B