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The soft drop groomed jet radius at NLL

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-01-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We present results for the soft drop groomed jet radius RgR_g at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. The radius of a groomed jet which corresponds to the angle between the two branches passing the soft drop criterion is one of the characteristic observables relevant for the precise understanding of groomed jet substructure. We establish a factorization formalism that allows for the resummation of all relevant large logarithms, which is based on demonstrating the all order equivalence to a jet veto in the region between the boundaries of the groomed and ungroomed jet. Non-global logarithms including clustering effects due to the Cambridge/Aachen algorithm are resummed to all orders using a suitable Monte Carlo algorithm. We perform numerical calculations and find a very good agreement with Pythia 8 simulations. We provide theoretical predictions for the LHC and RHIC.

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@article{arxiv.1908.01783,
  title  = {The soft drop groomed jet radius at NLL},
  author = {Zhong-Bo Kang and Kyle Lee and Xiaohui Liu and Duff Neill and Felix Ringer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.01783},
  year   = {2021}
}

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32 pages, 8 figures

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