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All (un)polarized transverse momentum dependent functions (TMDs), both distribution and fragmentation functions, are defined with the same universal soft function, which cancels spurious rapidity divergences within an individual TMD and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

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 calculate the generalized soft functions at $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^2)$ at next-to-leading power accuracy for the Drell-Yan process at threshold. The operator definitions of these objects contain explicit insertions of soft gauge and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-27 Alessandro Broggio , Sebastian Jaskiewicz , Leonardo Vernazza

We calculate soft phase-space and loop master integrals tor the computation of color-singlet cross sections through N$^3$LO in perturbative QCD. Our results are functions of homogeneous transcendental weight and include the first nine terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-19 Claude Duhr , Bernhard Mistlberger , Gherardo Vita

We derive the hard functions for all 2->2 processes in massless QCD up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling constant. By employing the known one- and two-loop helicity amplitudes for these processes, we obtain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Ben D. Pecjak , Zhibai Zhang

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

We present a method for very fast repeated computations of higher-order cross sections in hadron-induced processes for arbitrary parton density functions. A full implementation of the method for computations of jet cross sections in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 T. Kluge , K. Rabbertz , M. Wobisch

We calculate structure functions at small $x$ both under the assumption of a hard singularity (a power behaviour $x^{-\lambda}, \lambda$ positive, for $x\rightarrow 0$) or that of a soft-Pomeron dominated behaviour, also called double…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 K. Adel , F. Barreiro , F. J. Ynduráin

We compute the inclusive jet function for boosted heavy quarks to $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3)$. The jet function is defined and calculated in the framework of boosted Heavy-Quark Effective Theory (bHQET). It describes the effect of radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-08 Alberto M. Clavero , Robin Brüser , Vicent Mateu , Maximilian Stahlhofen

Within the framework of Soft Collinear Effective Theory, we present calculations of semi-inclusive jet functions and fragmenting jet functions at next-to-leading order (NLO) for both quark- and gluon-initiated jets, for jet algorithms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 Lei Wang , Zhong-Bo Kang , Hongxi Xing , Ben-Wei Zhang

We present the first computation of the complete two-loop, fully-differential soft function describing the production of a heavy-quark pair in association with a color-singlet system at hadron colliders. This result constitutes one of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Ze Long Liu , Pier Francesco Monni

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 describe the calculation of integrated subtraction terms in the nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme for hadron collider processes with quarks and gluons, thereby extending the results presented in Ref.$~$[1]. Although this extension…

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

Soft-Collinear Effective Theory is a framework for systematically organizing and resumming the logarithmic contributions that occur in high-energy reactions. It provides a factorized description of cross sections in terms of hard, jet,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 Saurav Goyal , Sven-Olaf Moch , Vaibhav Pathak , V. Ravindran

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

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 complete set of two-loop beam functions for the transverse momentum distribution of the leading jet produced in association with an arbitrary colour-singlet system. Our results constitute the last missing ingredient for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Samuel Abreu , Jonathan R. Gaunt , Pier Francesco Monni , Luca Rottoli , Robert Szafron

We extend our framework for the automated calculation of dijet soft functions to observables that do not obey the non-Abelian exponentiation theorem, like jet-veto or grooming soft functions that are sensitive to clustering effects of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-16 Guido Bell , Rudi Rahn , Jim Talbert

We present a systematic algorithm for the perturbative computation of soft functions that are defined in terms of two light-like Wilson lines. Our method is based on a universal parametrisation of the phase-space integrals, which we use to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Guido Bell , Rudi Rahn , Jim Talbert

We present the calculation for single-inclusive jet production in (longitudinally) polarized deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering at next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) accuracy, based on the Projection-to-Born method. As a necessary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-13 Ignacio Borsa , Daniel de Florian , Iván Pedron