Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-02-11
JHEP 1009:005,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
54 pages, 9 figures; v2: notation simplified in a few places, typos fixed; v3: journal version
Scientific paper
10.1007/JHEP09(2010)005
In hard collisions at a hadron collider the most appropriate description of the initial state depends on what is measured in the final state. Parton distribution functions (PDFs) evolved to the hard collision scale Q are appropriate for inclusive observables, but not for measurements with a specific number of hard jets, leptons, and photons. Here the incoming protons are probed and lose their identity to an incoming jet at a scale \mu_B << Q, and the initial state is described by universal beam functions. We discuss the field-theoretic treatment of beam functions, and show that the beam function has the same RG evolution as the jet function to all orders in perturbation theory. In contrast to PDF evolution, the beam function evolution does not mix quarks and gluons and changes the virtuality of the colliding parton at fixed momentum fraction. At \mu_B, the incoming jet can be described perturbatively, and we give a detailed derivation of the one-loop matching of the quark beam function onto quark and gluon PDFs. We compute the associated NLO Wilson coefficients and explicitly verify the cancellation of IR singularities. As an application, we give an expression for the next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic order (NNLL) resummed Drell-Yan beam thrust cross section.
Stewart Iain W.
Tackmann Frank J.
Waalewijn Wouter J.
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