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The real-virtual antenna functions for $S \to Q\bar{Q} X$ at NNLO QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-22 v1

Abstract

We determine, in the antenna subtraction framework for handling infrared divergences in higher order QCD calculations, the real-virtual antenna functions for processes involving the production of a pair of massive quarks by an uncolored initial state at NNLO QCD. The integrated leading and subleading color real-virtual antenna functions are computed analytically in terms of (cyclotomic) harmonic polylogarithms. As a by-product and check we compute RQ=σ(e+eγQQˉX)/σ(e+eγμ+μ)R_Q=\sigma(e^+e^-\to \gamma^*\to Q\bar{Q}X)/\sigma(e^+e^-\to \gamma^*\to\mu^+\mu^-) and compare with existing results. Our result for RQR_Q is exact to order αs2\alpha_s^2.

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@article{arxiv.1409.3124,
  title  = {The real-virtual antenna functions for $S \to Q\bar{Q} X$ at NNLO QCD},
  author = {Oliver Dekkers and Werner Bernreuther},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.3124},
  year   = {2015}
}

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