We study the matching of the next-to-leading logarithmic approximation (NLLA) onto the fixed next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculation for event shape distributions in electron-positron annihilation. The resulting theoretical predictions combine all precision QCD knowledge on the distributions, and are theoretically reliable over an extended kinematical range. Compared to previously available matched NLLA+NLO and fixed order NNLO results, we observe that the effects of the combined NLLA+NNLO are small in the three-jet region, relevant for precision physics.
@article{arxiv.0803.0695,
title = {Matching NLLA+NNLO for event shape distributions},
author = {T. Gehrmann and G. Luisoni and H. Stenzel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.0695},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
14 pages, 18 figures; typos corrected, published version