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N-jettiness beam functions at N3LO

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-10-28 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present the first complete calculation for the quark and gluon NN-jettiness (TN\Tau_N) beam functions at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3^3LO) in perturbative QCD. Our calculation is based on an expansion of the differential Higgs boson and Drell-Yan production cross sections about their collinear limit. This method allows us to employ cutting edge techniques for the computation of cross sections to extract the universal building blocks in question. The class of functions appearing in the matching coefficents for all channels includes iterated integrals with non-rational kernels, thus going beyond the one of harmonic polylogarithms. Our results are a key step in extending the TN\Tau_N subtraction methods to N3^3LO, and to resum TN\Tau_N distributions at N3^3LL^\prime accuracy both for quark as well as for gluon initiated processes.

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@article{arxiv.2006.03056,
  title  = {N-jettiness beam functions at N3LO},
  author = {Markus Ebert and Bernhard Mistlberger and Gherardo Vita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.03056},
  year   = {2020}
}

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