Joint Two-Dimensional Resummation in $q_T$ and $0$-Jettiness at NNLL
Abstract
We consider Drell-Yan production with the simultaneous measurement of the -boson transverse momentum and -jettiness . Since both observables resolve the initial-state QCD radiation, the double-differential cross section in and contains Sudakov double logarithms of both and , where is the dilepton invariant mass. We simultaneously resum the logarithms in and to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic order (NNLL) matched to next-to-leading fixed order (NLO). Our results provide the first genuinely two-dimensional analytic Sudakov resummation for initial-state radiation. Integrating the resummed double-differential spectrum with an appropriate scale choice over either or recovers the corresponding single-differential resummation for the remaining variable. We discuss in detail the required effective field theory setups and their combination using two-dimensional resummation profile scales. We also introduce a new method to perform the resummation where the underlying resummation is carried out in impact-parameter space, but is consistently turned off depending on the momentum-space target value for . Our methods apply at any order and for any color-singlet production process, such that our results can be systematically extended when the relevant perturbative ingredients become available.
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@article{arxiv.1901.03331,
title = {Joint Two-Dimensional Resummation in $q_T$ and $0$-Jettiness at NNLL},
author = {Gillian Lustermans and Johannes K. L. Michel and Frank J. Tackmann and Wouter J. Waalewijn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.03331},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
43 pages + 10 pages in appendices, 20 figures; v2: journal version; references added, panel with fixed-order result added to figure 15; v3: fixed a typo (incorrect sign) in eq. (B.19)