Perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of moments of the thrust distribution in e+e- annihilation

Abstract

Resummation and power-corrections play a crucial role in the phenomenology of event-shape variables like the thrust T. Previous investigations showed that the perturbative contribution to the average thrust is dominated by gluons of small invariant mass, of the order of 10% of Q, where Q is the center-of-mass energy. The effect of soft gluons is also important, leading to a non-perturbative 1/Q correction. These conclusions are based on renormalon analysis in the single dressed gluon (SDG) approximation. Here we analyze higher moments of the thrust distribution using a similar technique. We find that the characteristic gluon invariant mass contributing to <(1-T)^m> increases with m. Yet, for m=2 this scale is quite low, around 27% of Q, and therefore renormalon resummation is still very important. On the other hand, the power-correction to <(1-T)^2> from a single soft gluon emission is found to be highly suppressed: it scales as 1/Q^3. In practice, <(1-T)^2> and higher moments depend also on soft gluon emission from configurations of three hard partons, which may lead to alpha_s(Q^2)/Q power-corrections. This issue is yet to be investigated.

27 pages including 3 postscript figures; final version - to appear in JHEP; note the extended discussion in the conclusion section

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