Tagging the initial-state gluon
Abstract
We study the production of an electroweak boson in association with jets, in processes where the jet with the highest transverse momentum is identified as quark-initiated. The quark/gluon tagging procedure is realised by a cut on a jet angularity and it is therefore theoretically well-defined and exhibits infrared and collinear safety. In this context, exploiting resummed perturbation theory, we are able to provide theoretical predictions for transverse momentum distributions at a well-defined and, in principle, systematically improvable accuracy. In particular, tagging the leading jet as quark-initiated allows us to enhance the initial-state gluon contribution. Thus, these novel transverse momentum distributions are potentially interesting observables to probe the gluonic degrees of freedom of the colliding protons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2108.10024,
title = {Tagging the initial-state gluon},
author = {Simone Caletti and Oleh Fedkevych and Simone Marzani and Daniel Reichelt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.10024},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures, version accepted by EPJ C