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We present the calculation of the two-loop soft function for the transverse momentum distribution of the leading jet produced in association with any colour-singlet system (e.g.~a Higgs or a $Z$ boson). This constitutes a central ingredient…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 Samuel Abreu , Jonathan R. Gaunt , Pier Francesco Monni , Robert Szafron

We compute the N-jettiness soft function in hadronic collisions to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong-coupling expansion. Our calculation is based on an extension of the SoftSERVE framework to soft functions that involve an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-08 Guido Bell , Bahman Dehnadi , Tobias Mohrmann , Rudi Rahn

High-order perturbative calculations for thermodynamic quantities in QCD are complicated by the physics of dynamical screening that affects the soft, long-wavelength modes of the system. Here, we provide details for the evaluation of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-17 Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Risto Paatelainen , Saga Säppi , Aleksi Vuorinen

The soft theorem states that scattering amplitude in gauge theory with a soft gauge-boson emission can be factorized into a hard scattering amplitude and a soft factor. In this paper, we present calculations of the soft factor for processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-25 Wen Chen , Ming-xing Luo , Tong-Zhi Yang , Hua Xing Zhu

We present the first calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order threshold soft function for top quark pair production at hadron colliders, with full velocity dependence of the massive top quarks. Our results are fully analytic, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 Guoxing Wang , Xiaofeng Xu , Li Lin Yang , Hua Xing Zhu

We calculate the $\mathcal O(\alpha_s^2)$ corrections to the primary massive quark jet functions in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET). They are an important ingredient in factorized predictions for inclusive jet mass cross sections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-16 André H. Hoang , Christopher Lepenik , Maximilian Stahlhofen

We consider the radiation of two or more soft partons in QCD hard-scattering at one-loop order. The corresponding scattering amplitude is singular, and the singular behaviour is controlled by a process-independent soft current. Using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-16 Stefano Catani , Leandro Cieri

We calculate the $N$-jettiness soft function for $tW$ production up to next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD, which is an important ingredient of the $N$-jettiness subtraction method for predicting the differential cross sections of massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Hai Tao Li , Jian Wang

The semi-inclusive decay processes of a top quark into a charged pseudo-scalar meson and a jet are studied within the framework of QCD factorization. The leading power of the decay matrix elements can be factorized into heavy-to-light quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-02 Long-Shun Lu , Lei-Yi Li , Cai-Dian Lü

We compute three-loop corrections of $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_{s}^3)$ to form factors with one massive and one massless quark coupling to an external vector, axialvector, scalar, pseudoscalar, or tensor current. We obtain analytic results for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Matteo Fael , Tobias Huber , Fabian Lange , Jakob Müller , Kay Schönwald , Matthias Steinhauser

There has been recent interest in understanding the all loop structure of the subleading power soft and collinear limits, with the goal of achieving a systematic resummation of subleading power infrared logarithms. Most of this work has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Ian Moult , Iain W. Stewart , Gherardo Vita , Hua Xing Zhu

We calculate the two-loop soft function for $pp \to jj$, $e^+e^- \to 4j$ or $e p \to 3j$ when the $N$-jettiness observable is measured. The result presented here makes up the necessary piece for realizing the full next-to-next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Shan Jin , Xiaohui Liu

The N-jettiness event shape divides phase space into N+2 regions, each containing one jet or beam. Using a geometric measure these regions correspond to jets with circular boundaries. We give a factorization theorem for the cross section…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-21 Teppo T. Jouttenus , Iain W. Stewart , Frank J. Tackmann , Wouter J. Waalewijn

Heavy quark fragmenting jet functions describe the fragmentation of a parton into a jet containing a heavy quark, carrying a fraction of the jet momentum. They are two-scale objects, sensitive to the heavy quark mass, $m_Q$, and to a jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Christian W. Bauer , Emanuele Mereghetti

We derive the leading-power singular terms at three loops for both $q_T$ and 0-jettiness, $\cal{T}_0$, for generic color-singlet processes. Our results provide the complete set of differential subtraction terms for $q_T$ and $\cal{T}_0$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-18 Georgios Billis , Markus A. Ebert , Johannes K. L. Michel , Frank J. Tackmann

We present a computation of the global soft function for single-inclusive hadronic jet production at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling constant involving four light-like Wilson lines. Our soft function belongs to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Yaroslav Balytskyi , Jianbo Gao

We compute the two-loop soft function for the associated production of a top quark and a $W$ boson near the threshold, where the invariant mass of the $tW$ system approaches the collider energy. We employ the reverse unitarity technique and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Jia-Le Ding , Hai Tao Li , Jian Wang

The light cone method provides a convenient non-perturbative tool to study the heavy-to-light form factors. We construct a light cone quark model utilizing the soft collinear effective theory. In the leading order of effective theory, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Cai-Dian Lu , Wei Wang , Zheng-Tao Wei

Recently, we have presented the result for the zero-jettiness soft function at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO) in perturbative QCD [arXiv:2409.11042], without providing technical details of the calculation. The goal of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-19 Daniel Baranowski , Maximilian Delto , Kirill Melnikov , Andrey Pikelner , Chen-Yu Wang

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