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Precision $e^+e^-$ Hemisphere Masses in the Dijet Region with Power Corrections

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-09-12 v2

Abstract

We derive high-precision results for the e+ee^+e^- heavy jet mass (HJM) dσ/dρd \sigma/d \rho and dihemisphere mass (DHM) d2σ/(ds1ds2)d^2\sigma/(d s_1 d s_2) distributions, for s1s2s_1\sim s_2, in the dijet region. New results include: i) the N3^3LL resummation for HJM of large logarithms lnn(ρ)\ln^n(\rho) at small ρ\rho including the exact two-loop non-global hemisphere soft function, the 4-loop cusp anomalous dimension and the 3-loop hard and jet functions, ii) N3^3LL results for DHM with resummation of logarithms ln(s1,2/Q2)\ln(s_{1,2}/Q^2) when there is no large separation between s1s_1 and s2s_2, iii) profile functions for HJM to give results simultaneously valid in the peak and tail regions, iv) a complete two-dimensional basis of non-perturbative functions which can be used for double differential observables, that are needed for both HJM and DHM in the peak region, and v) an implementation of renormalon subtractions for large-angle soft radiation to O(αs3){\cal O}(\alpha_s^3) together with a resummation of the additional large ln(Qρ/ΛQCD)\ln(Q\rho/\Lambda_{QCD}) logarithms. Here QQ is the e+ee^+e^- center-of-mass energy. Our resummation results are combined with known fixed-order O(αs3){\cal O}(\alpha_s^3) results and we discuss the convergence and remaining perturbative uncertainty in the cross section. We also prove that, at order 1/Q1/Q, the first moment of the HJM distribution involves an additional non-perturbative parameter compared to the power correction that shifts the tail of the spectrum (where 1ρΛQCD/Q1\gg \rho\gg \Lambda_{QCD}/Q). This differs from thrust where a single non-perturbative parameter at order 1/Q1/Q describes both the first moment and the tail, and it disfavors models of power corrections employing a single non-perturbative parameter, such as the low-scale effective coupling model. In this paper we focus only on the dijet region, not the far-tail distribution for ρ0.2\rho \gtrsim 0.2.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2506.09130,
  title  = {Precision $e^+e^-$ Hemisphere Masses in the Dijet Region with Power Corrections},
  author = {Andre H. Hoang and Vicent Mateu and Matthew D. Schwartz and Iain W. Stewart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.09130},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

49 pages, 12 figures, published version

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