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The Three-loop Quark Jet Function

arXiv:1804.09722 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.072003

Abstract

We calculate the massless quark jet function to three-loop order. The quark jet function is a universal ingredient in SCET factorization for many collider and decay processes with quark initiated final state jets. Our three-loop result contributes to the resummation for observables probing the invariant mass of final state quark jets at NLL. It represents the first complete three-loop result for a factorization ingredient describing collinear radiation. Furthermore it constitutes a major component of the -jettiness subtraction/slicing method at NLO, which eventually may enable the calculation of fully-differential cross sections with a colorful final state at this order.

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