Threshold resummation at N3LL accuracy and soft-virtual cross sections at N3LO

We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of colorless high-mass systems in hadron collisions. We show that the recent computation of the soft-virtual corrections to Higgs boson production at N3LO together with the universality structure of soft-gluon emission can be exploited to extra...

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Autores: Catani, Stefano, Cieri, Leandro Javier, de Florian, Daniel Enrique, Ferrera, Giancarlo, Grazzini, Massimiliano
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Argentina
Recursos:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/18012
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/18012
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:QCD
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Resumo:We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of colorless high-mass systems in hadron collisions. We show that the recent computation of the soft-virtual corrections to Higgs boson production at N3LO together with the universality structure of soft-gluon emission can be exploited to extract the general expression of the hard-virtual coefficient that contributes to threshold resummation at N3LL accuracy. The hard-virtual coefficient is directly related to the process-dependent virtual amplitude through a universal (process-independent) factorization formula that we explicitly evaluate up to three-loop order. As an application, we present the explicit expression of the soft-virtual N3LO corrections for the production of an arbitrary colorless system. In the case of the Drell–Yan process, we confirm the recent result of Ref. [2]