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We discuss consistent power counting for integrating soft and collinear degrees of freedom over arbitrary regions of phase space in the soft-collinear effective theory (SCET), and illustrate our results at one loop with several jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-16 William Man-Yin Cheung , Michael Luke , Saba Zuberi

The complete two-loop expression for the jet function J(p^2,mu) of soft-collinear effective theory is presented, including non-logarithmic terms. Combined with our previous calculation of the soft function S(omega,mu), this result provides…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Becher , Matthias Neubert

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

We compute the ${\cal O}(\alpha^2\alpha_s^2)$ perturbative corrections to inclusive jet production in electron-nucleon collisions. This process is of particular interest to the physics program of a future Electron Ion Collider (EIC). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-28 Gabriel Abelof , Radja Boughezal , Xiaohui Liu , Frank Petriello

A complete next-to-leading order QCD calculation of deep inelastic electron-photon scattering including direct and resolved real photon components is presented. Soft and collinear singularities are extracted using the phase space slicing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Pötter

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

Event shape observables have been widely used for precision QCD studies at various lepton and hadron colliders. We present the most accurate calculation of the transverse-energy-energy correlation event shape variable in deep-inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Hai Tao Li , Ivan Vitev , Yu Jiao Zhu

We present a detailed derivation of the power corrections to the factorization theorem for the 0-jettiness event shape variable $\mathcal{T}$. Our calculation is performed directly in QCD without using the formalism of effective field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Radja Boughezal , Andrea Isgrò , Frank Petriello

We use the recently proposed jettiness-subtraction scheme to provide the complete calculation of Higgs boson production in association with a jet in hadronic collisions through next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. This method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-11 Radja Boughezal , Christfried Focke , Walter Giele , Xiaohui Liu , Frank Petriello

Inelastic QED processes, the cross sections of which do not drop with increasing energy, play an important role at high-energy colliders. Such reactions have the form of two-jet processes with the exchange of a virtual photon in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 C. Carimalo , A. Schiller , V. G. Serbo

The production of jets in low $Q^2$ $ep$ scattering (photoproduction) and in low $Q^2$ $e^+e^-$ scattering ($\gamma\gamma$ scattering) allows for testing perturbative QCD and for measuring the proton and photon structure functions. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Michael Klasen , Thorsten Kleinwort , Gustav Kramer

We present the complete next-to-leading order calculation of isolated prompt photon production in association with a jet in deep-inelastic scattering. The calculation involves, direct, resolved and fragmentation contributions. It is shown…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Aurenche , M. Fontannaz

Non-global QCD observables are characterised by a sensitivity to the full angular distribution of soft radiation emitted coherently in hard scattering processes. This complexity poses a challenge to their all-order resummation, that was…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-13 Andrea Banfi , Frédéric A. Dreyer , Pier Francesco Monni

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

LHC measurements involve cuts on several observables, but resummed calculations are mostly restricted to single variables. We show how the resummation of a class of double-differential measurements can be achieved through an extension of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Massimiliano Procura , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Lisa Zeune

High energy scattering processes involving jets generically involve matrix elements of light- like Wilson lines, known as soft functions. These describe the structure of soft contributions to observables and encode color and kinematic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-06 Andrew Hornig , Christopher Lee , Iain W. Stewart , Jonathan R. Walsh , Saba Zuberi

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-28 Luca Buonocore , Massimiliano Grazzini , Flavio Guadagni , Jürg Haag , Luca Rottoli

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

We perform a systematic and comprehensive analysis of sub-leading colour corrections in perturbative QCD processes involving multiple soft gluon emissions. This necessitates going beyond the standard parton shower paradigm in order to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-22 Jeffrey R. Forshaw , Simon Plätzer , Fernando Torre González

I describe how to calculate cross sections for hard-scattering processes in high energy collisions at next to leading order in QCD. I consider infrared-safe quantities and I assume that the scattering amplitudes are known in analytic form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Kunszt