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The past several years have witnessed important developments in the QCD theory of jet production and jet substructure in hadronic collisions. In the framework of soft-collinear effective theory, semi-inclusive jet functions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Hai Tao Li , Ivan Vitev

We introduce a new jet algorithm called XCone, for eXclusive Cone, which is based on minimizing the event shape N-jettiness. Because N-jettiness partitions every event into N jet regions and a beam region, XCone is an exclusive jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-20 Iain W. Stewart , Frank J. Tackmann , Jesse Thaler , Christopher K. Vermilion , Thomas F. Wilkason

The two-prong structure related to the leading subjets inside a reconstructed jet opens new avenues toward precision constraints on the in-medium modification of parton showers. In this talk, we present the first resummed calculation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-11 Hai Tao Li , Ivan Vitev

The soft function relevant for the production of an electroweak boson (photon, W, Z or H) with large transverse momentum at a hadron collider is computed at next-to-next-to-leading order. This is the first two-loop computation of a soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Thomas Becher , Guido Bell , Stefanie Marti

Jet substructure quantities are measured using jets groomed with the soft-drop grooming procedure in dijet events from 32.9 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions collected with the ATLAS detector at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV. These observables are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-03-25 ATLAS Collaboration

The transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) soft function for a generic hadroproduction process involving massive colored particles is analytically calculated at the one-loop level, extended to higher orders in the dimensional regulator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-04 Hua-Sheng Shao , Guoxing Wang

We demonstrate the consistency at the next-to-leading-logarithmic (NLL) level of a factorization theorem based on Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) for jet shapes in e+e- collisions. We consider measuring jet observables in exclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-25 Stephen D. Ellis , Andrew Hornig , Christopher Lee , Christopher K. Vermilion , Jonathan R. Walsh

We extend our algorithm for automating the calculation of two-loop dijet soft functions to observables that do not obey the non-Abelian exponentiation theorem, i.e. to those that require an independent calculation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-21 Guido Bell , Rudi Rahn , Jim Talbert

QCD factorization approach in the field-theoretic description of the semi-inclusive hadronic processes in the large Bjorken $x$ approximation implies extraction of the three-dimensional parton distribution functions as a convolution of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-24 I. O. Cherednikov

Jets constructed via clustering algorithms (e.g., anti-$k_T$, soft-drop) have been proposed for many precision measurements, such as the strong coupling $\alpha_s$ and the nucleon intrinsic dynamics. However, the theoretical accuracy is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-15 Hao-yu Liu , Xiaohui Liu , Sven-Olaf Moch

We analyze the effects of jet algorithms on each factorized part of the dijet cross sections in $e^+ e^-$ scattering using the soft-collinear effective theory. The jet function and the soft function with a cone-type jet algorithm and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-19 Junegone Chay , Chul Kim , Inchol Kim

We provide a quantum field theory based description of the nonperturbative effects from hadronization for soft drop groomed jet mass distributions using the soft-collinear effective theory and the coherent branching formalism. There are two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-04 André H. Hoang , Sonny Mantry , Aditya Pathak , Iain W. Stewart

We present the high-precision result for the zero-jettiness soft function at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO) in perturbative QCD. At this perturbative order, the soft function is the last missing ingredient required for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-19 Daniel Baranowski , Maximilian Delto , Kirill Melnikov , Andrey Pikelner , Chen-Yu Wang

We calculate the three-loop soft function for the production of an electroweak boson (Higgs, $\gamma$, $W^\pm$, $Z$) with large transverse momentum at a hadron collider. It is the first time a soft function for a three-parton process is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-23 Ze Long Liu , Maximilian Stahlhofen

We compute the soft-drop jet-mass distribution from $pp$ collisions to NNLL accuracy while including nonperturbative corrections through a field-theory based formalism. Using these calculations, we assess the theoretical uncertainties on an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 Holmfridur S. Hannesdottir , Aditya Pathak , Matthew D. Schwartz , Iain W. Stewart

Vacuum and medium modified fragmentation functions are used to study the properties of hadrons produced in hard interactions, in $p$-$p$ and $A$-$A$ collisions, respectively. We study the modification of reconstructed jets and high…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-14 Chathuranga Sirimanna , Shanshan Cao , Abhijit Majumder

The extraction of transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMDs) in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) is complicated by the presence of both initial- and final-state nonperturbative physics. We recently proposed measuring…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-10 Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes , Ignazio Scimemi , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Lorenzo Zoppi

We calculate the one-loop corrections to the soft anomalous dimension matrices for the production of a top-antitop quark pair in association with a jet at hadron colliders. This is a step forward towards implementing a procedure for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-12 Bakar Chargeishvili , Maria Vittoria Garzelli , Sven-Olaf Moch

We extend our framework for the automated calculation of dijet soft functions to observables that do not obey the non-Abelian exponentiation theorem, like jet-veto or grooming soft functions that are sensitive to clustering effects of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-16 Guido Bell , Rudi Rahn , Jim Talbert

The $N$-jettiness observable $\mathcal{T}_N$ provides a way of describing the leading singular behavior of the $N$-jet cross section in the $\tau =\mathcal{T}_N/Q \to 0$ limit, where $Q$ is a hard interaction scale. We consider subleading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Ian Moult , Lorena Rothen , Iain W. Stewart , Frank J. Tackmann , Hua Xing Zhu