Phenomenology of heavy-flavour jet angularities at hadron colliders

Abstract

We compute resummed and matched predictions for jet angularities in hadronic Z+jet events, where the jet is initiated by a b-quark. The analysis is performed both with and without grooming the candidate jets using the SoftDrop algorithm. Mass effects are consistently included at both fixed-order and resummed levels. Our theoretical predictions also incorporate non-perturbative corrections from the underlying event and hadronization, implemented through parton-to-hadron transfer matrices extracted from dedicated Monte Carlo simulations with Sherpa. Finally, we compare results for b-jets with the ones from light-flavour jets, in order to quantify the impact of finite-mass effects.

50 pages, 14 figures