INVESTIGADORES
DE FLORIAN Daniel Enrique
artículos
Título:
Universality of transverse-momentum resummation and hard factors at the NNLO
Autor/es:
STEFANO CATANI, L.CIERI, G.FERRERA, DANIEL DE FLORIAN, M.GRAZZINI
Revista:
NUCLEAR PHYSICS B
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Referencias:
Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2014 vol. 881 p. 414 - 443
ISSN:
0550-3213
Resumen:
We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of colorless high-mass systems in hadron collisions. The logarithmically-enhanced contributions at small transverse momentum are treated to all perturbative orders by a universal resummation formula that depends on a single process-dependent hard factor. We show that the hard factor is directly related to the all-order virtual amplitude of the corresponding partonic process. The direct relation is universal (process-independent), and it is expressed by an all-order factorization formula that we explicitly evaluate up to the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. Once the NNLO scattering amplitude is available, the corresponding hard factor is di- rectly determined: it controls NNLO contributions in resummed calculations at full next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, and it can be used in applications of the qT subtraction formalism to perform fully- exclusive perturbative calculations up to NNLO. The universality structure of the hard factor and its explicit NNLO form are also extended to the related formalism of threshold resummation.