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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

We calculate the soft function for the global event variable 1-jettiness at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD. We focus specifically on the non-Abelian contribution, which, unlike the Abelian part, is not determined by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-18 John M. Campbell , R. Keith Ellis , Roberto Mondini , Ciaran Williams

The $N$-jettiness subtraction has proven to be an efficient method to perform differential QCD next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculations in the last few years. One important ingredient of this method is the NNLO soft function. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-03 Hai Tao Li , Jian Wang

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

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 present a general framework for the calculation of soft functions for SCET_I observables through next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling constant. As an example of our formalism we show how it can be used to obtain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Radja Boughezal , Xiaohui Liu , Frank Petriello

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

We present a method to calculate the soft function in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory to NLO for N-jet events, defined with respect to arbitrarily complicated observables and algorithms, using a subtraction-based method. We show that at one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-25 Christian W. Bauer , Nicholas Daniel Dunn , Andrew Hornig

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

We present a systematic framework for the calculation of soft functions that are defined in terms of $N\geq2$ light-like Wilson lines. The formalism represents an extension of a method that we developed earlier for the calculation of dijet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-23 Guido Bell , Bahman Dehnadi , Tobias Mohrmann , Rudi Rahn

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 derive a compact representation of the renormalized $N$-jettiness soft function that is free of infrared and collinear divergences through next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. The number of hard partons $N$ is a parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-06 Prem Agarwal , Kirill Melnikov , Ivan Pedron

The N-jettiness event shape divides phase space into N+2 regions, each containing one jet or beam. These jet regions are insensitive to the distribution of soft radiation and, with a geometric measure for N-jettiness, have circular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Teppo T. Jouttenus , Iain W. Stewart , Frank J. Tackmann , Wouter J. Waalewijn

We compute the 1-jettiness soft function for the decay of a heavy quark into a light quark jet plus colorless particles at three-loop order in soft-collinear effective theory. The 1-jettiness measurement fixes the total small light-cone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-17 Robin Brüser , Ze Long Liu , Maximilian Stahlhofen

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

We present an efficient way to calculate the effect of soft QCD radiation at one loop, which is needed for predictions at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. We use rapidity coordinates and isolate the divergences in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Tomas Kasemets , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Lisa Zeune

We discuss peculiarities that arise in the computation of real-emission contributions to observables that contain Heaviside functions. A prominent example of such a case is the zero-jettiness soft function in SCET, whose calculation at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Daniel Baranowski , Maximilian Delto , Kirill Melnikov , Chen-Yu Wang

We present the calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) zero-jettiness beam and soft functions, up to the second order in the expansion in the dimensional regularization parameter $\epsilon$. These higher order terms are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Daniel Baranowski

Modern collider phenomenology requires unprecedented precision for the theoretical predictions, for which slicing techniques provide an essential tool at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling. The most popular slicing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-23 Rong-Jun Fu , Rudi Rahn , Ding Yu Shao , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Bin Wu

Beam and jet functions in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory describe collinear initial- and final-state radiation (jets), and enter in factorization theorems for N-jet production, the Higgs pT spectrum, etc. We show that they may directly be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-17 Mathias Ritzmann , Wouter J. Waalewijn
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