Three-Jet Production in Electron-Positron Collisions at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Accuracy

We introduce a completely local subtraction method for fully differential predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy for jet cross sections and use it to compute event shapes in three-jet production in electron-positron collisions. We validate our method on two event shapes, thrust...

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Published inPhysical review letters Vol. 117; no. 15; p. 152004
Main Authors Del Duca, Vittorio, Duhr, Claude, Kardos, Adam, Somogyi, Gábor, Trócsányi, Zoltán
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 07.10.2016
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Summary:We introduce a completely local subtraction method for fully differential predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy for jet cross sections and use it to compute event shapes in three-jet production in electron-positron collisions. We validate our method on two event shapes, thrust and C parameter, which are already known in the literature at NNLO accuracy and compute for the first time oblateness and the energy-energy correlation at the same accuracy.
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.117.152004