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The Drell-Yan process is analyzed in soft-collinear effective theory near the end-point region. It is assumed that the relevant final-state hadron energy $Q(1-z)$ where $z$ is the momentum fraction transferred to the virtual photon is the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jong-Phil Lee

We argue that soft-collinear effective theory, as is currently formulated, lacks an ingredient which is essential for obtaining a gauge invariant definitions of certain non-perturbative matrix elements relevant for semi-inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Ahmad Idilbi , Ignazio Scimemi

We make progress towards resummation of power-suppressed logarithms in dijet event shapes such as thrust, which have the potential to improve high-precision fits for the value of the strong coupling constant. Using a newly developed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-30 Raymond Goerke , Matthew Inglis-Whalen

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

Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) is a framework for modeling the infrared structure of theories whose long distance behavior is dominated by soft and collinear divergences. This paper demonstrates that SCET can be made compatible with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Timothy Cohen , Gilly Elor , Andrew J. Larkoski

The singular limits of massless gauge theory amplitudes are described by an effective theory, called soft-collinear effective theory (SCET), which has been applied most successfully to make all-orders predictions for observables in collider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-29 Andrew J. Larkoski , Duff Neill , Iain W. Stewart

We calculate the jet shape and the jet cross section in heavy ion collisions using soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) and its extension with Glauber gluon interactions in the medium (SCET$_{\rm G}$). We use the previously developed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 Yang-Ting Chien , Ivan Vitev

A generalization of Wilson line operators at subleading power in the soft expansion has been recently introduced as an efficient building block of gravitational scattering amplitudes for non-spinning objects. The classical limit in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-23 Domenico Bonocore , Anna Kulesza , Johannes Pirsch

Glauber gluons in Drell-Yan processes are soft gluons with the transverse momenta much larger than their momentum components along the directions of initial hadrons. Their existence has been a serious challenge in proving the factorization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-21 F. Liu , J. P. Ma

We review the definition of semi-inclusive jet functions within Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) and their application to inclusive jet cross sections. As an example, we consider both the inclusive production of jets and the jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-07 Zhong-Bo Kang , Felix Ringer , Ivan Vitev

We discuss recent developments in descriptions of processes using power expansion around the lightcone within Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. First, we present an overview of the systematically improvable framework that enables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-02 Sebastian Jaskiewicz

We present a systematic framework for the calculation of dijet soft functions, which are defined as a matrix element of two light-like Wilson lines that is weighted by a generic measurement function. Based on a universal parametrisation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-21 Guido Bell , Rudi Rahn , Jim Talbert

The description of low-energy (``soft") gravitons using universal theorems continues to attract attention. In this paper, we consider the emission of two soft gravitons, using a previously developed formalism that describes (next-to) soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Karan Fernandes , Feng-Li Lin , Chris D. White

At energies that are large with respect to the electroweak scale, the electroweak corrections to scattering processes involve large logarithms that have to be resummed to obtain decent predictions. Soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Rode

We present compact integral representations for the calculation of two-loop anomalous dimensions for a generic class of soft functions that are defined in terms of two light-like Wilson lines. Our results are relevant for the resummation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-28 Guido Bell , Rudi Rahn , Jim Talbert

We reformulate the soft-collinear effective theory which includes the collinear quark and soft gluons. The quark form factor is used to prove that SCET$_{\rm II}$ reproduces the IR physics of the full theory. We give a factorization proof…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Zheng-Tao Wei

Using soft-collinear effective theory (SCET), which provides a unified framework for factorization, resummation of logarithms, and incorporation of universal nonperturbative functions in hard-scattering QCD cross-sections, we present a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-16 Andrew Hornig , Christopher Lee , Grigory Ovanesyan

When a new heavy particle is discovered at the LHC or at a future high-energy collider, it will be interesting to study its decays into Standard Model particles using an effective field-theory framework. We point out that the proper…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-25 Stefan Alte , Matthias König , Matthias Neubert

The jet fragmentation function describes the longitudinal momentum distribution of hadrons inside a reconstructed jet. We study the jet fragmentation function in proton-proton collisions in the framework of soft-collinear effective theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-24 Yang-Ting Chien , Zhong-Bo Kang , Felix Ringer , Ivan Vitev , Hongxi Xing

The all-order structure of scattering amplitudes is greatly simplified by the use of Wilson line operators, describing eikonal emissions from straight lines extending to infinity. A generalization at subleading powers in the eikonal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Domenico Bonocore , Anna Kulesza , Johannes Pirsch