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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

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

We present an analytic calculation of the one-loop correction to the double-real emission contribution to the zero-jettiness soft function at N3LO in QCD, accounting for both gluon-gluon and quark-antiquark soft final-state partons. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-26 Daniel Baranowski , Maximilian Delto , Kirill Melnikov , Andrey Pikelner , Chen-Yu Wang

We present a new general algorithm for calculating arbitrary jet cross sections in arbitrary scattering processes to next-to-leading accuracy in perturbative QCD. The algorithm is based on the subtraction method. The key ingredients are new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Stefano Catani , Michael H. Seymour

We complete the calculation of the three-gluon-emission contribution to the same-hemisphere part of the zero-jettiness soft function at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Daniel Baranowski , Maximilian Delto , Kirill Melnikov , Chen-Yu Wang

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

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

$N$-jettiness subtractions provide a general approach for performing fully-differential next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculations. Since they are based on the physical resolution variable $N$-jettiness, $\mathcal{T}_N$, subleading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-31 Ian Moult , Lorena Rothen , Iain W. Stewart , Frank J. Tackmann , Hua Xing Zhu

We consider the class of inclusive hadron collider processes in which one or more energetic jets are produced, possibly accompanied by colourless particles. We provide a general formulation of a slicing scheme for this class of processes,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Luca Buonocore , Massimiliano Grazzini , Jürg Haag , Luca Rottoli , Chiara Savoini

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

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 describe how the nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme [1] can be used to compute the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the production of an arbitrary number of gluonic jets in hadron collisions. We show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-20 Federica Devoto , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch , Chiara Signorile-Signorile , Davide Maria Tagliabue

Explicit applications of factorization theorems for processes at hadron colliders near the hadronic endpoint have largely focused on simple final states with either no jets (e.g., Drell-Yan) or one inclusive jet (e.g., deep inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Christian W. Bauer , Nicholas Daniel Dunn , Andrew Hornig

We present the first complete calculation for the quark and gluon $N$-jettiness ($\Tau_N$) beam functions at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in perturbative QCD. Our calculation is based on an expansion of the differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Markus Ebert , Bernhard Mistlberger , Gherardo Vita

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

We present a calculation of all matching coefficients for $N$-jettiness beam functions at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Our computation is performed starting from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Daniel Baranowski , Arnd Behring , Kirill Melnikov , Lorenzo Tancredi , Christopher Wever

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 analytic results that describe fully-differential NNLO QCD corrections to deep-inelastic scattering processes within the nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme. This is the last building block required for the application of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Konstantin Asteriadis , Fabrizio Caola , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch

In this contribution I will review recent developments in the antenna subtraction method for higher-order calculations in QCD. In particular, I will illustrate the definition and applications of generalised antenna functions for final-state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Matteo Marcoli

We present the computation of the soft-parton contribution at low transverse momentum for the production of a heavy quark pair in association with a colour singlet at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the QCD coupling. This paper…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-23 Simone Devoto , Javier Mazzitelli