51 research outputs found
The High Energy Jets Framework
High Energy Jets provides an all-order description of wide-angle QCD
emissions, resumming the leading-logarithmic contributions in the high-energy
limit. In this contribution, we briefly summarise the approach and its
implementation in a flexible Monte Carlo event generator. We discuss
comparisons between HEJ and recent LHC data and then go on to probe the
similarities and differences in the results obtained from High Energy Jets and
other theoretical frameworks in inclusive dijet and W+dijet production.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, Contribution to the proceedings of the DIS 2012
conference (Bonn, March 2012
All-Order Corrections and Multi-Jet Rates
We discuss results from a recently proposed all-order description of hard,
radiative corrections to certain multi-jet processes at hadron colliders. The
description is based on obtaining an all-order estimate of the t-channel
singularities of scattering amplitudes. As a simple example, we illustrate the
similarities between qQ and qg-scattering. In particular, we discuss how at
tree-level, all non-suppressed helicity-amplitudes for these processes consist
of a pure t-channel pole. This structure is used in the construction of
all-order approximations.Comment: 6 pages. Talk given at RADCOR 2009 - 9th International Symposium on
Radiative Corrections (Applications of Quantum Field Theory to
Phenomenology), October 25 - 30 2009, Ascona, Switzerlan
Resummation of the transverse-energy distribution in Higgs boson production at the Large Hadron Collider
We compute the resummed hadronic transverse-energy () distribution due
to initial-state QCD radiation in the production of a Standard Model Higgs
boson of mass 126 GeV by gluon fusion at the Large Hadron Collider, with
matching to next-to-leading order calculations at large . Effects of
hadronization, underlying event and limited detector acceptance are estimated
using aMC@NLO with the Herwig++ and Pythia 8 event generators.Comment: 26 pages, 13 figures. Version to appear in JHE
One-loop central-emission vertex for two gluons in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory
A necessary ingredient for extending the BFKL equation to
next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy is the one-loop central
emission vertex (CEV) for two gluons which are not strongly ordered in
rapidity. Here we consider the one-loop six-gluon amplitude in
super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory in a central next-to-multi-Regge kinematic (NMRK)
limit, we show that its dispersive part factorises in terms of the two-gluon
CEV, and we use it to extract the one-loop two-gluon CEV for any helicity
configuration within this theory. This is a component of the two-gluon CEV in
QCD. Although computed in the NMRK limit, both the colour structure and the
kinematic dependence of the two-gluon CEV capture much of the complexity of the
six-gluon amplitudes in general kinematics. In fact, the transcendental
functions of the latter can be conveniently written in terms of impact factors,
trajectories, single-emission CEVs and a remainder, which is a function of the
conformally invariant cross ratios which characterise the six-gluon amplitudes
in planar SYM. Finally, as expected, in the MRK limit the
two-gluon CEV neatly factorises in terms of two single-emission CEVs.Comment: 85 pages, 13 figure
HEJ 2.2: W boson pairs and Higgs boson plus jet production at high energies
We present version 2.2 of the High Energy Jets (HEJ) Monte Carlo event
generator for hadronic scattering processes at high energies. The new version
adds support for two further processes of central phenomenological interest,
namely the production of a W boson pair with equal charge together with two or
more jets and the production of a Higgs boson with at least one jet.
Furthermore, a new prediction for charged lepton pair production with high jet
multiplicities is provided in the high-energy limit. The accuracy of HEJ 2.2
can be increased further through an enhanced interface to standard predictions
based on conventional perturbation theory. We describe all improvements and
provide extensive usage examples. HEJ 2.2 can be obtained from
https://hej.hepforge.org.Comment: 29 pages, 2 figures and many code listing
Resummation of transverse energy in vector boson and Higgs boson production at hadron colliders
We compute the resummed hadronic transverse energy (E_T) distribution due to
initial-state QCD radiation in vector boson and Higgs boson production at
hadron colliders. The resummed exponent, parton distributions and coefficient
functions are treated consistently to next-to-leading order. The results are
matched to fixed-order calculations at large E_T and compared with
parton-shower Monte Carlo predictions at Tevatron and LHC energies.Comment: 24 pages, 15 figure
W Plus Multiple Jets at the LHC with High Energy Jets
We study the production of a W boson in association with n hard QCD jets (for
n>=2), with a particular emphasis on results relevant for the Large Hadron
Collider (7 TeV and 8 TeV). We present predictions for this process from High
Energy Jets, a framework for all-order resummation of the dominant
contributions from wide-angle QCD emissions. We first compare predictions
against recent ATLAS data and then shift focus to observables and regions of
phase space where effects beyond NLO are expected to be large.Comment: 19 pages, 9 figure
On the renormalization of multiparton webs
We consider the recently developed diagrammatic approach to soft-gluon
exponentiation in multiparton scattering amplitudes, where the exponent is
written as a sum of webs - closed sets of diagrams whose colour and kinematic
parts are entangled via mixing matrices. A complementary approach to
exponentiation is based on the multiplicative renormalizability of intersecting
Wilson lines, and their subsequent finite anomalous dimension. Relating this
framework to that of webs, we derive renormalization constraints expressing all
multiple poles of any given web in terms of lower-order webs. We examine these
constraints explicitly up to four loops, and find that they are realised
through the action of the web mixing matrices in conjunction with the fact that
multiple pole terms in each diagram reduce to sums of products of lower-loop
integrals. Relevant singularities of multi-eikonal amplitudes up to three loops
are calculated in dimensional regularization using an exponential infrared
regulator. Finally, we formulate a new conjecture for web mixing matrices,
involving a weighted sum over column entries. Our results form an important
step in understanding non-Abelian exponentiation in multiparton amplitudes, and
pave the way for higher-loop computations of the soft anomalous dimension.Comment: 60 pages, 15 figure
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