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The Diphoton $q_T$ spectrum at N$^3$LL$^\prime$+NNLO

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-12-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present a qTq_T-resummed calculation of diphoton production at order N3^3LL^\prime+NNLO. To reach the primed level of accuracy we have implemented the recently published three-loop O(αs3)\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3) virtual corrections in the qqˉq\bar{q} channel and the three-loop transverse momentum dependent beam functions and combined them with the existing infrastructure of CuTe-MCFM, a code performing resummation at order N3^3LL. While the primed predictions are parametrically not more accurate, one typically observes from lower orders and other processes that they are the dominant effect of the next order. We include in both the qqˉq\bar{q} and loop-induced gggg channel the hard contributions consistently together at order αs3\alpha_s^3 and find that the resummed qqˉq\bar{q} channel without matching stabilizes indeed. Due to large matching corrections and large contributions and uncertainties from the gggg channel, the overall improvements are small though. We furthermore study the effect of hybrid-cone photon isolation and hard-scale choice on our fully matched results to describe the ATLAS 8 TeV data and find that the hybrid-cone isolation destroys agreement at small qTq_T.

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@article{arxiv.2107.12478,
  title  = {The Diphoton $q_T$ spectrum at N$^3$LL$^\prime$+NNLO},
  author = {Tobias Neumann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.12478},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

11 pages, 6 figures; v2: matches version published in EPJC