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Kamel Khelifa-Kerfa

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arXiv2023

Dijet azimuthal decorrelation in $e^+e^-$ annihilation

We examine non-global and clustering logarithms in the distribution of the azimuthal decorrelation between two jets in $e^+e^-\to$ dijet events, where the jets are defined with $E$-scheme recombination in the generalized $k_t$ algorithm. We calculate at one loop and to all orders the leading global single logarithms in the distribution of the said observable. We also compute at fixed order up to four loops at finite $N_c$ the non-global and clustering logarithms, and numerically resum them to all orders in the large-$N_c$ approximation. We compare our results at $\mathcal{O}(α_s)$ and $\mathcal{O}(α_s^2)$ with those of the EVENT2 fixed-order Monte Carlo program and find agreement of the leading singular behavior of the azimuthal decorrelation distribution. We find that the impact of non-global logarithms on the resummed distribution in the anti-$k_t$ algorithm is substantial, while it is significantly smaller in the $k_t$ algorithm. Furthermore, the combined clustering and non-global logarithms in the $k_t$ algorithm have an even smaller effect on the distribution. Finally, we use the program Gnole to calculate the resummed distribution at NLL accuracy, thus achieving state-of-the-art accuracy for the resummation of this quantity.

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arXiv2022

Azimuthal decorrelation between a jet and a Z boson at hadron colliders

We revisit the azimuthal decorrelation $δϕ$ between a jet and a $Z$ boson produced at hadron colliders. Employing different recombination schemes for the jets leads to significantly different NLL-resummed predictions for the distribution of this quantity. Specifically when the jets are reconstructed with the $E$-scheme (i.e., four-momentum addition) in the $k_t$ or anti-$k_t$ clustering algorithms, then the resummation becomes highly non-trivial due to the presence of non-global and/or clustering logarithms. We evaluate these logarithms analytically at two loops and numerically to all orders in the large-$\mathrm{N_c}$ limit, and present a full NLL resummation of $δϕ$. We extend the accuracy of the perturbative expansion of the resummed distribution at fixed order to NNLL accuracy by including $\mathcal{O}(α_s)$ NLO corrections obtained with MadGraph5_aMC@NLO. We compare our findings with results of various Monte Carlo event generators and with experimental data from the CMS collaboration.

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arXiv2021

QCD resummation for high-p$_T$ jet shapes at hadron colliders

Exploiting the substructure of jets observed at the LHC to better understand and interpret the experimental data has recently been a very active area of research. In this thesis we study the substructure of high-p$_T$ QCD jets, which form a background to many new physics searches. In particular, we explore in detail the perturbative distributions of a certain class of observables known as non-global jet shapes. More specifically, we identify and present state-of-the-art calculations, both at fixed-order and to all-orders in the perturbative expansion, of a set of large logarithms known as non-global logarithms. Hitherto, these logarithms have been largely mistreated, and in many cases ignored, in the literature despite being first pointed out more than a decade ago. Our work has triggered the interest of many groups, particularly Soft and Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) groups, and led to a flurry of papers on non-global logarithms and related issues.

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arXiv2021

Jet mass distribution in Higgs/vector boson + jet events at hadron colliders with $k_t$ clustering

We address the issues of clustering and non-global logarithms for jet shapes in the process of production of a Higgs/vector boson associated with a single hard jet at hadron colliders. We perform an analytical fixed-order calculation up to second order in the coupling as well as an all-orders estimation for the specific invariant mass distribution of the highest-$p_t$ jet, for various jet algorithms. Our results are derived in the eikonal (soft) limit and are valid up to next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. We perform a matching of the resummed distribution to next-to-leading order results from MCFM and compare our findings with the outputs of the Monte Carlo event generators Pythia 8 and Herwig 7. After accounting for non-perturbative effects we compare our results with available experimental data from the CMS collaboration for the Z + jet production. We find good agreement over a wide range of the observable.

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arXiv2020

Eikonal amplitudes for three-hard legs processes at finite-N$_c$

We extend our previous work on scattering amplitudes [1] to hadron collisions. We provide a general formalism for the computation of eikonal amplitudes squared for the radiation of soft and energy-ordered gluons off three hard-legs at finite-N$_c$ to any order in the perturbative expansion. Examples of three-hard legs processes include vector/Higgs boson production in association with a single hard jet and dijet production in DIS. Explicit expressions for the radiation of up to four gluons are provided as an illustration of the formalism.

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arXiv2020

Eikonal amplitudes and non-global logarithms from the BMS equation

The Banfi-Marchesini-Smye (BMS) equation accounts for non-global logarithms to all orders in perturbation theory in the large-Nc approximation. We show that the squared amplitudes for the emission of soft energy-ordered gluons are correctly embedded in this equation, and explicitly verify that they coincide with those derived in our previous work in the large-Nc limit up to sixth order in the strong coupling. We perform analytical calculations for the non-global logarithms up to fourth order for the specific hemisphere mass distribution in e+ e- collisions, thus confirming our previous semi-numerical results. We show that the solution to the BMS equation may be cast into a product of an infinite number of exponentials each of which resums a class of Feynman diagrams that manifest a symmetry pattern, and explicitly carry out the computation of the first of these exponentials.

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arXiv2016

Eikonal gluon bremsstrahlung at finite N_c beyond two loops

We present a general formalism for computing the matrix-element squared for the emission of soft energy-ordered gluons beyond two loops in QCD perturbation theory at finite $N_c$. Our formalism is valid in the eikonal approximation. A Mathematica program has been developed for the automated calculation of all real/virtual eikonal squared amplitudes needed at a given loop order. For the purpose of illustration we show the explicit forms of the eikonal squared amplitudes up to the fifth-loop order. In the large-$N_c$ limit our results coincide with those previously reported in literature.

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arXiv2015

On the resummation of non-global logarithms at finite $\mathbf{N_c}$

We present a calculation of non-global logs at finite $\mathrm{N_c}$ for the hemisphere mass distribution in $e^+e^-\to 2$ jets at single log accuracy up to fifth order in the strong coupling constant. Our results suggest a possible all-orders resummation of these large logs into an exponential. Comparing our results to those at large $\mathrm{N_c}$, recently reported in literature, we find an agreement. We additionally compare our findings with the numerical all-orders resummation at large $\mathrm{N_c}$ and discuss the significance of neglected finite-$\mathrm{N_c}$ corrections on the said distribution.

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arXiv2015

Eikonal gluon radiation at finite-Nc beyond 2 loops

We present first calculations of QCD matrix-elements in perturbation theory at finite Nc beyond 2 loops in the eikonal approximation for e+ e- annihilation processes. For the emission of n soft energy-ordered gluons we solve both the colour and kinematic structures at a given order in perturbation theory by means of a Mathematica program that relies solely on a recently developed Mathematica code, ColorMath, that evaluates the trace of products of colour matrices. At large Nc, our squared amplitudes reduce to those already known in the literature.

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arXiv2015

Non-global logarithms at finite Nc beyond leading order

We analytically compute non-global logarithms at finite Nc fully up to 4 loops and partially at 5 loops, for the hemisphere mass distribution in e+e- to di-jets to leading logarithmic accuracy. Our method of calculation relies solely on integrating the eikonal squared-amplitudes for the emission of soft energy-ordered real-virtual gluons over the appropriate phase space. We show that the series of non-global logarithms in the said distribution exhibits a pattern of exponentiation thus confirming - by means of brute force - previous findings. In the large-Nc limit, our results coincide with those recently reported in literature. A comparison of our proposed exponential form with all-orders numerical solutions is performed and the phenomenological impact of the finite-Nc corrections is discussed.

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arXiv2013

Resummation of clustering logarithms for non-global QCD observables

We address the problem of resumming leading clustering logs in QCD jet observables defined using the k_t, CA and SISCone algorithms. We specifically choose the jet mass distribution as an example and calculate up to order(alpha_s^4) clustering-log terms in the series expansion at single-log accuracy. These terms are found to exhibit a pattern of exponentiation and we are thus able to perform an all-orders analytical resummation for the clustering logs. We also numerically calculate the non-global logs at large N_c. We show that our result for the resummation of clustering logs is a very good analytical approximation to the numerical result obtained using a specialised Monte Carlo program.

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arXiv2012

On jet mass distributions in Z+jet and dijet processes at the LHC

The mass distribution of jets produced in hard processes at the LHC plays an important role in several jet substructure related studies involving both Standard Model and BSM physics, especially in the context of boosted heavy particle searches. We compute analytically the jet-mass distribution for both Z+jet and dijet processes, for QCD jets defined in the anti-k_t algorithm with an arbitrary radius R, to next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy and match our resummed calculation to full leading-order results. We note the important role played by initial state radiation (ISR) and non-global logarithms explicitly computed here for the first time for hadron collider observables, as well as the jet radius dependence of these effects. We also compare our results to standard Monte Carlo event generators and discuss directions for further studies and phenomenology.

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arXiv2012

On the resummation of clustering logarithms for non-global observables

Clustering logs have been the subject of much study in recent literature. They are a class of large logs which arise for non-global jet-shape observables where final-state particles are clustered by a non-cone--like jet algorithm. Their resummation to all orders is highly non--trivial due to the non-trivial role of clustering amongst soft gluons which results in the phase-space being non-factorisable. This may therefore significantly impact the accuracy of analytical estimations of many of such observables. Nonetheless, in this paper we address this very issue for jet shapes defined using the $k_t$ and C/A algorithms, taking the jet mass as our explicit example. We calculate the coefficients of the Abelian $α_s^2 L^2$, $α_s^3 L^3$ and $α_s^4 L^4$ NLL terms in the exponent of the resummed distribution and show that the impact of these logs is small which gives confidence on the perturbative estimate without the neglected higher-order terms. Furthermore we numerically resum the non-global logs of the jet mass distribution in the $k_t$ algorithm in the large-$N_c$ limit.

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arXiv2012

Non--global logs and clustering impact on jet mass with a jet veto distribution

There has recently been much interest in analytical computations of jet mass distributions with and without vetos on additional jet activity [1-6]. An important issue affecting such calculations, particularly at next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy, is that of non-global logarithms as well as logarithms induced by jet definition, as we pointed out in an earlier work [3]. In this paper, we extend our previous calculations by independently deriving the full jet-radius analytical form of non-global logarithms, in the anti-$\kt$ jet algorithm. Employing the small-jet radius approximation, we also compute, at fixed-order, the effect of jet clustering on both $\CF^{2}$ and $\CF\CA$ colour channels. Our findings for the $\CF\CA$ channel confirm earlier analytical calculations of non-global logarithms in soft-collinear effective theory [5]. Moreover, all of our results, as well as those of [3], are compared to the output of the numerical program \texttt{EVENT2}. We find good agreement between analytical and numerical results both with and without final state clustering.

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arXiv2010

Non-global logarithms and jet algorithms in high-pT jet shapes

We consider jet-shape observables of the type proposed recently, where the shapes of one or more high-pT jets, produced in a multi-jet event with definite jet multiplicity, may be measured leaving other jets in the event unmeasured. We point out the structure of the full next-to-leading logarithmic resummation specifically including resummation of non-global logarithms in the leading-Nc limit and emphasising their properties. We also point out differences between jet algorithms in the context of soft gluon resummation for such observables.

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