Joint two-dimensional resummation in qT and 0-jettiness at NNLL
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- 21 March 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of High Energy Physics
- Vol. 2019 (3) , 124
Abstract
We consider Drell-Yan production pp → Z/γ ∗ → ℓ + ℓ − with the simultaneous measurement of the Z-boson transverse momentum q
T
and 0-jettiness $$ {\mathcal{T}}_0 $$ . Since both observables resolve the initial-state QCD radiation, the double-differential cross section in q
T
and $$ {\mathcal{T}}_0 $$ contains Sudakov double logarithms of both q
T
/Q and $$ {\mathcal{T}}_0/Q $$ , where Q ∼ m
Z
is the dilepton invariant mass. We simultaneously resum the logarithms in q
T
and $$ {\mathcal{T}}_0 $$ to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic order (NNLL) matched to next-to-leading fixed order (NLO). Our results provide the first genuinely two-dimensional analytic Sudakov resummation for initial-state radiation. Integrating the resummed double-differential spectrum with an appropriate scale choice over either $$ {\mathcal{T}}_0 $$ or q
T
recovers the corresponding single-differential resummation for the remaining variable. We discuss in detail the required effective field theory setups and their combination using two-dimensional resummation profile scales. We also introduce a new method to perform the q
T
resummation where the underlying resummation is carried out in impact-parameter space, but is consistently turned off depending on the momentum-space target value for q
T
. Our methods apply at any order and for any color-singlet production process, such that our results can be systematically extended when the relevant perturbative ingredients become available.
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