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The Quark Jet Function for $k_T$-like Variables in NNLO QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-08-28 v1

Abstract

The precise description of jet processes requires observables capable of efficiently capturing the dynamics of the energy flow in hadronic final states. We consider a class of tranverse-momentum like resolution variables that smoothly describe the n+1n+1 to nn jet transition in multi-jet processes. We discuss a general method for the computation of the corresponding quark jet function at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. Rapidity divergences are regulated by using a time-like auxiliary vector. We present explicit results for a variant of y23y_{23} in the EE-scheme and in the WTA scheme.

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@article{arxiv.2508.19226,
  title  = {The Quark Jet Function for $k_T$-like Variables in NNLO QCD},
  author = {Luca Buonocore and Massimiliano Grazzini and Flavio Guadagni and Jürg Haag and Luca Rottoli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.19226},
  year   = {2025}
}

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