English

Joint Two-Dimensional Resummation in $q_T$ and $0$-Jettiness at NNLL

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-10-08 v3

Abstract

We consider Drell-Yan production ppZ/γ+pp \to Z/\gamma^* \to \ell^+\ell^- with the simultaneous measurement of the ZZ-boson transverse momentum qTq_T and 00-jettiness T0\mathcal{T}_0. Since both observables resolve the initial-state QCD radiation, the double-differential cross section in qTq_T and T0\mathcal{T}_0 contains Sudakov double logarithms of both qT/Qq_T/Q and T0/Q\mathcal{T}_0/Q, where QmZQ \sim m_Z is the dilepton invariant mass. We simultaneously resum the logarithms in qTq_T and T0\mathcal{T}_0 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 T0\mathcal{T}_0 or qTq_T 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 qTq_T 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 qTq_T. 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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Cite

@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)