Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2012-03-13
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
29 pages, 7 figures. v2: fixed typos in enumerated clustering maps, figure 6
Scientific paper
Clustering algorithms build jets though the iterative application of single particle and pairwise metrics. This leads to phase space constraints that are extremely complicated beyond the lowest orders in perturbation theory, and in practice they must be implemented numerically. This complication presents a significant barrier to gaining an analytic understanding of the perturbative structure of jet cross sections. We present a novel framework to express the jet algorithm's phase space constraints as a function of clustered groups of particles, which are the possible outcomes of the algorithm. This approach highlights the analytic properties of jet observables, rather than the explicit constraints on individual final state momenta, which can be unwieldy at higher orders. We derive the form of the n-particle phase space constraints for a jet algorithm with any measurement. We provide an expression for the measurement that makes clustering effects manifest and relates them to constraints from clustering at lower orders. The utility of this framework is demonstrated by using it to understand clustering effects for a large class of jet shape observables in the soft/collinear limit. We apply this framework to isolate divergences and analyze the logarithmic structure of the Abelian terms in the soft function, providing the all-orders form of these terms and showing that corrections from clustering start at next-to-leading logarithmic order in the exponent of the cross section.
Kelley Randall
Walsh Jonathan R.
Zuberi Saba
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