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We present a new method to compute the soft function for the $N$-Jettiness variable for arbitrary $N$ at high perturbative orders in QCD. It is based on the observation that the most singular part of the soft function, the dipole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Luca Buonocore , Maximilian Delto , Kirill Melnikov , Pier Francesco Monni , Andrey Pikelner , Gherardo Vita

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

In collider physics, jet algorithms are a ubiquitous tool for clustering particles into discrete jet objects. Event shapes offer an alternative way to characterize jets, and one can define a jet multiplicity event shape, which can take on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Daniele Bertolini , Jesse Thaler , Jonathan R. Walsh

We consider dijet production in $e^+e^-$ collisions and in $H\to b{\bar b}$ decays at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD. A new non-local subtraction scheme is applied, for the first time, to obtain the fully…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-04 Luca Buonocore , Massimiliano Grazzini , Flavio Guadagni , Jürg Haag , Stefan Kallweit , Luca Rottoli

The inclusive production of jets in the central region of rapidity is studied in $k_T$-factorization at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD perturbation theory. Calculations are performed in the Regge limit making use of the NLO BFKL…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 J. Bartels , A. Sabio Vera , F. Schwennsen

Jet shapes are weighted sums over the four-momenta of the constituents of a jet and reveal details of its internal structure, potentially allowing discrimination of its partonic origin. In this work we make predictions for quark and gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-06 Stephen D. Ellis , Andrew Hornig , Christopher Lee , Christopher K. Vermilion , Jonathan R. Walsh

We present a novel subtraction method to remove the soft and collinear divergences at next-to-leading order for processes involving an arbitrary number of fragmentation functions, where this method acts directly in the hadronic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 M. S. Zidi , J. Ph. Guillet , I. Schienbein , H. Zaraket

Computations of higher-order QCD corrections for processes with exclusive final states require a subtraction method for real-radiation contributions. We present the first-ever generalisation of a subtraction method for third-order (N3LO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 J. Currie , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , A. Huss , J. Niehues , A. Vogt

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

I review progress related to the calculation of QCD jet cross sections at the NLO accuracy. After a short introduction into the theory of NLO calculations, I discuss two recent developments: the calculation of two- and three-jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Zoltan Trocsanyi

Jet calculus offers a unique mathematical technique to bridge the area of QCD resummation with Monte Carlo parton showers. With the ultimate goal of constructing next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) parton showers we study, using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-24 Melissa van Beekveld , Mrinal Dasgupta , Basem Kamal El-Menoufi , Jack Helliwell , Pier Francesco Monni

We introduce a method to compute one-loop soft functions for exclusive $N$-jet processes at hadron colliders, allowing for different definitions of the algorithm that determines the jet regions and of the measurements in those regions. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-10 Daniele Bertolini , Daniel Kolodrubetz , Duff Neill , Piotr Pietrulewicz , Iain W. Stewart , Frank J. Tackmann , Wouter J. Waalewijn

QCD color coherence phenomena, like angular ordering, can be studied by looking at jet fragmentation. As the jet is fragmenting, it is expected to go through two different phases. First, there is QCD branching that is calculable in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jussi Viinikainen

At high values of the pair invariant mass the differential cross section for top-quark pair production at hadron colliders factorizes into soft, hard, and fragmentation functions. In this paper we calculate the next-to-next-to-leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrea Ferroglia , Ben D. Pecjak , Li Lin Yang

Multi-jet rates at hadron colliders provide a unique possibility for probing Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions. By comparing theory predictions with collider data, one can directly test perturbative QCD,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-30 Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov , Rene Poncelet

We present a general subtraction method for computing radiative corrections to QCD jet cross sections at next-to-next-to-leading order accuracy. The steps needed to set up this subtraction scheme are the same as those used in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Zoltan Trocsanyi , Gabor Somogyi

We present the calculation of next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) QCD corrections to hadron multiplicities in light-quark jets at lepton colliders, employing the ``projection-to-Born" (P2B) method implemented in the FMNLO program. Taking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-29 Bin Zhou , Jun Gao

We finish the definition of a subtraction scheme for computing NNLO corrections to QCD jet cross sections. In particular, we perform the integration of the soft-type contributions to the doubly unresolved counterterms via the method of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-12 Gabor Somogyi

The transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) soft function for non-relativistic heavy quark pair production at hadron colliders is analytically computed at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling expansion. We present the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Hua-Sheng Shao , Guoxing Wang

We present a subtraction method utilizing the N-jettiness observable, Tau_N, to perform QCD calculations for arbitrary processes at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). Our method employs soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) to determine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-29 Jonathan Gaunt , Maximilian Stahlhofen , Frank J. Tackmann , Jonathan R. Walsh