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NNLO beam functions for angularity distributions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-09-23 v1

Abstract

The popular class of angularity event shapes provides a wealth of information on the hadronic final-state distribution in collider events. While initially proposed for e+ee^+ e^- collisions, angularities have more recently attracted considerable interest as a jet substructure observable at hadron colliders. Moreover, angularities can be measured as a global event shape in deep inelastic electron-nucleon scattering (DIS), and the respective factorisation theorem contains a beam function that parametrises the collinear initial-state radiation. In the present work, we compute the quark and gluon beam functions for seven different angularities to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong-coupling expansion. Our calculation is based on an automated framework that was previously developed for SCET-2 observables, and which we transfer in the current work to the generic SCET-1 case. Our results are relevant for resumming DIS angularity distributions at NNLL' accuracy.

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@article{arxiv.2409.13348,
  title  = {NNLO beam functions for angularity distributions},
  author = {Guido Bell and Kevin Brune and Goutam Das and Marcel Wald},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.13348},
  year   = {2024}
}

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19 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, 14 ancillary files

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