NNLO hard functions in massless QCD

Authors

Alessandro Broggio, Paul Scherrer Institut
Andrea Ferroglia, CUNY New York City College of TechnologyFollow
Ben D. Pecjak, University of Durham
Zhibai Zhang, CUNY New York City College of TechnologyFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2014

Abstract

We derive the hard functions for all 2 → 2 processes in massless QCD up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling constant. By employing the known one- and two-loop helicity amplitudes for these processes, we obtain analytic expressions for the ultraviolet and infrared finite, minimally subtracted hard functions, which are matrices in color space. These hard functions will be useful in carrying out higher-order resummations in processes such as dijet and highly energetic top-quark pair production by means of soft-collinear effective theory methods.

Comments

This article was originally published in the Journal of High Energy Physics, available at doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2014)005.

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