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The NNLO quark beam function for jet-veto resummation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-02-01 v2

Abstract

We consider the quark beam function that describes collinear initial-state radiation that is constrained by a veto on reconstructed jets. As the veto is imposed on the transverse momenta of the jets, the beam function is subject to rapidity divergences, and we use the collinear-anomaly framework to extract the perturbative matching kernels to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong-coupling expansion. Our calculation is based on a novel framework that automates the computation of beam functions in Mellin space and it provides the ingredients to extend jet-veto resummations for quark-initiated processes to NNLL' accuracy.

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@article{arxiv.2207.05578,
  title  = {The NNLO quark beam function for jet-veto resummation},
  author = {Guido Bell and Kevin Brune and Goutam Das and Marcel Wald},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.05578},
  year   = {2023}
}

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18 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, 8 ancillary files, Journal version

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