Quantifying Comparisons of Threshold Resummations

Abstract

We explore similarities and differences between widely-used threshold resummation formalisms, employing electroweak boson production as an instructive example. Resummations based on both full QCD and soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) share common underlying factorizations and resulting evolution equations. The formalisms differ primarily in their choices of boundary conditions for evolution, in moment space for many treatments based on full QCD, and in momentum space for treatments based on soft-collinear effective theory. At the level of factorized hadronic cross sections, these choices lead to quite different expressions. Nevertheless, we can identify a natural expansion for parton luminosity functions, in which SCET and full QCD resummations agree for the first term, and for which subsequent terms provide differences that are small in most cases. We also clarify the roles of the non-leading resummation constants in the two formalisms, and observe a relationship of the QCD resummation function $D({\alpha }_s)$ to the web expansion.

36 pages, 8 figures

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