Next-to-soft corrections for Drell-Yan and Higgs boson rapidity distributions beyond <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">N</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msup><mml:mi>LO</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math>
A. H. Ajjath, Pooja Mukherjee, V. Ravindran, Aparna Sankar, Surabhi Tiwari
Abstract
We present a formalism that resums both soft-virtual (SV) and next-to-SV (NSV) contributions to all orders in perturbative QCD for the rapidity distribution of any colorless particle produced in hadron colliders. Using state-of-the-art results, we determine the complete NSV contributions to third order in the strong coupling constant for the rapidity distributions for Drell-Yan and for Higgs boson in gluon fusion as well as bottom quark annihilation. Using our all-order $z$-space result, we show how the NSV contributions can be resummed in two-dimensional Mellin space.
Topics & Concepts
RapidityPhysicsHiggs bosonParticle physicsQuantum chromodynamicsAnnihilationGluonQuarkHadronFormalism (music)BosonVisual artsArtMusicalParticle physics theoretical and experimental studiesQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle InteractionsHigh-Energy Particle Collisions Research