N$^3$LO soft-gluon corrections for $Zγ$ production
高能物理 - 唯象学
2026-08-12 v1
摘要
We calculate soft-gluon corrections for production through next-to-next-to-next-to-leading-order (NLO) in one-particle-inclusive (1PI) kinematics. We use these results to produce approximate NLO (aNLO) QCD predictions for production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at LHC energies. Differential cross sections in photon transverse momentum and rapidity are computed at 13 TeV and 13.6 TeV collider energies. Higher-order -factors are examined systematically, and scale and PDF uncertainties are quantified at each perturbative order. Soft-gluon corrections are found to be significant in the high- region, with good perturbative convergence observed at aNLO.
引用
@article{arxiv.2608.12556,
title = {N$^3$LO soft-gluon corrections for $Zγ$ production},
author = {Nikolaos Kidonakis and Kaan Şimşek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.12556},
year = {2026}
}
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21 pages, 12 figures