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NNLOCAL: Fully Local Subtractions for Precision Predictions in Hadron Collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-03-02 v1

Abstract

This work extends the CoLoRFulNNLO subtraction method to address soft and collinear divergences in the computation of higher-order corrections for hadronic collisions. By utilizing universal local counterterms which can be integrated analytically over the unresolved phase space, we achieve numerically stable, fully-differential predictions. Our publicly available NNLOCAL code serves as a proof-of-concept implementation, validated by calculating the NNLO cross-section for Higgs boson production in gluon-gluon fusion with no light quarks.

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@article{arxiv.2602.24257,
  title  = {NNLOCAL: Fully Local Subtractions for Precision Predictions in Hadron Collisions},
  author = {Vittorio Del Duca and Claude Duhr and Levente Fekésházy and Flavio Guadagni and Pooja Mukherjee and Gábor Somogyi and Francesco Tramontano and Sam Van Thurenhout},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.24257},
  year   = {2026}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings for RADCOR2025