The Energy-Energy Correlation in the back-to-back limit at N3LO and N3LL′

Autor: Markus A. Ebert, Bernhard Mistlberger, Gherardo Vita
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2021, Iss 8, Pp 1-43 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2021)022
Popis: Abstract We present the analytic formula for the Energy-Energy Correlation (EEC) in electron-positron annihilation computed in perturbative QCD to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N3LO) in the back-to-back limit. In particular, we consider the EEC arising from the annihilation of an electron-positron pair into a virtual photon as well as a Higgs boson and their subsequent inclusive decay into hadrons. Our computation is based on a factorization theorem of the EEC formulated within Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) for the back-to-back limit. We obtain the last missing ingredient for our computation — the jet function — from a recent calculation of the transverse-momentum dependent fragmentation function (TMDFF) at N3LO. We combine the newly obtained N3LO jet function with the well known hard and soft function to predict the EEC in the back-to-back limit. The leading transcendental contribution of our analytic formula agrees with previously obtained results in N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We obtain the N = 2 Mellin moment of the bulk region of the EEC using momentum sum rules. Finally, we obtain the first resummation of the EEC in the back-to-back limit at N3LL′ accuracy, resulting in a factor of ∼ 4 reduction of uncertainties in the peak region compared to N3LL predictions.
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