QCD Analysis of the Scale-Invariance of Jets

Abstract

Studying the substructure of jets has become a powerful tool for event discrimination and for studying QCD. Typically, jet substructure studies rely on Monte Carlo simulation for vetting their usefulness; however, when possible, it is also important to compute observables with analytic methods. Here, we present a global next-to-leading-log resummation of the angular correlation function which measures the contribution to the mass of a jet from constituents that are within an angle R with respect to one another. For a scale-invariant jet, the angular correlation function should scale as a power of R. Deviations from this behavior can be traced to the breaking of scale invariance in QCD. To do the resummation, we use soft-collinear effective theory relying on the recent proof of factorization of jet observables at e+ e- colliders. Non-trivial requirements of factorization of the angular correlation function are discussed. The calculation is compared to Monte Carlo parton shower and next-to-leading order results. The different calculations are important in distinct phase space regions and exhibit that jets in QCD are, to very good approximation, scale invariant over a wide dynamical range.

Updated to PRD version, added discussion of relative importance of NLL vs. NLO contributions

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