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most citedThe Three-loop Quark Jet Function

74 citations · 569 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

hep-ph2025

Analytical Soft Functions for Heavy-Quark Final States at Hadron Colliders

Ze Long Liu, Pier Francesco Monni

We present the first computation of the complete two-loop, fully-differential soft function describing the production of a heavy-quark pair in association with a color-singlet syst…

hep-ph2024

The two-loop fully differential soft function for production at lepton colliders

Ze Long Liu, Pier Francesco Monni

We consider the production of a pair of heavy quarks in association with a generic colour singlet system at lepton colliders, and present the first analytic calculat…

hep-ph2023

Centrality-dependent modification of hadron and jet production in electron-nucleus collisions

Hai Tao Li, Ze Long Liu, Ivan Vitev

Centrality-dependent measurements of hadron and jet cross section attenuation in deep inelastic scattering on nuclei can shed new light on the physics of final-state interactions i…

hep-ph2022★ 28 cited

Factorization at Next-to-Leading Power and Endpoint Divergences in Production

Ze Long Liu, Matthias Neubert, Marvin Schnubel +1

We derive a factorization theorem for the Higgs-boson production amplitude in gluon-gluon fusion induced by a light-quark loop, working at next-to-leading power in soft-collinear e…

hep-ph2022★ 14 cited

Infrared singularities of multi-leg QCD amplitudes with a massive parton at three loops

Ze Long Liu, Nicolas Schalch

We derive the structure of three-loop anomalous dimensions governing infrared singularities of QCD amplitudes with one massive and an arbitrary number of massless external partons.…

hep-ph2021★ 20 cited

Radiative Quark Jet Function with an External Gluon

Ze Long Liu, Matthias Neubert, Marvin Schnubel +1

Factorization theorems in soft-collinear effective theory at subleading order in power counting involve ``radiative jet functions'', defined in terms of matrix elements of collinea…

hep-ph2021

Nuclear matter effects on jet production at electron-ion colliders

Hai Tao Li, Ze Long Liu, Ivan Vitev

In these proceedings we report recent progress on understanding hadron and jet production in electron-nucleus collisions at the future Electron-Ion Collider [1,2]. These processes…

hep-ph2021★ 24 cited

Heavy flavor jet production and substructure in electron-nucleus collisions

Hai Tao Li, Ze Long Liu, Ivan Vitev

Deep inelastic scattering on nuclei at the Electron-Ion Collider will open new opportunities to investigate the structure of matter. Heavy flavor-tagged jets are complementary prob…

hep-ph2020★ 23 cited

Nuclear matter effects on jet production at electron-ion colliders

Hai Tao Li, Ivan Vitev

Jet production and jet substructure in reactions with nuclei at future electron-ion colliders will play a preeminent role in the exploration of nuclear structure and the evolution…

hep-ph2020★ 5 cited

Three-loop soft function for energetic electroweak boson production at hadron colliders

Ze Long Liu, Maximilian Stahlhofen

We calculate the three-loop soft function for the production of an electroweak boson (Higgs, , , ) with large transverse momentum at a hadron collider. It is the first…

hep-ph2020★ 39 cited

Factorization at Subleading Power and Endpoint Divergences in Decay: II. Renormalization and Scale Evolution

Ze Long Liu, Bianka Mecaj, Matthias Neubert +1

Building on the recent derivation of a bare factorization theorem for the -quark induced contribution to the decay amplitude based on soft-collinear effective theory, w…

hep-ph2020★ 57 cited

Factorization at Subleading Power, Sudakov Resummation and Endpoint Divergences in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

Ze Long Liu, Bianka Mecaj, Matthias Neubert +1

Starting from the first renormalized factorization theorem for a process described at subleading power in soft-collinear effective theory, we discuss the resummation of Sudakov log…

hep-ph2020★ 34 cited

Heavy meson tomography of cold nuclear matter at the electron-ion collider

Hai Tao Li, Ze Long Liu, Ivan Vitev

An important part of the physics program at the future electron-ion collider is to understand the nature of hadronization and the transport of energy and matter in large nuclei. Op…

hep-ph2020★ 32 cited

Renormalization and Scale Evolution of the Soft-Quark Soft Function

Ze Long Liu, Bianka Mecaj, Matthias Neubert +2

Soft functions defined in terms of matrix elements of soft fields dressed by Wilson lines are central components of factorization theorems for cross sections and decay rates in col…

hep-ph2020★ 37 cited

Two-Loop Radiative Jet Function for Exclusive -Meson and Higgs Decays

Ze Long Liu, Matthias Neubert

The rare radiative -meson decay and the radiative Higgs-boson decay mediated by light-quark loops both receive large logarithmic corrections in QCD…

hep-ph2019★ 6 cited

Factorization at Subleading Power and Endpoint-Divergent Convolutions in Decay

Ze Long Liu, Matthias Neubert

It is by now well known that, at subleading power in scale ratios, factorization theorems for high-energy cross sections and decay amplitudes contain endpoint-divergent convolution…

hep-ph2019★ 23 cited

Three-loop soft function for heavy-to-light quark decays

Robin Brüser, Ze Long Liu, Maximilian Stahlhofen

We compute the 1-jettiness soft function for the decay of a heavy quark into a light quark jet plus colorless particles at three-loop order in soft-collinear effective theory. The…

hep-ph2018★ 25 cited

s-channel Single Top Quark Production and Decay at NNLO in QCD

Ze Long Liu, Jun Gao

We report on a fully differential next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculation of s-channel single top (anti-)quark production with a semi-leptonic decay at the LHC, neglecting…

hep-ph2018★ 74 cited

The Three-loop Quark Jet Function

Robin Brüser, Ze Long Liu, Maximilian Stahlhofen

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…

hep-ph2016★ 60 cited

Charm-quark production in deep-inelastic neutrino scattering at NNLO in QCD

Edmond L. Berger, Jun Gao, Chong Sheng Li +2

We present a fully differential next-to-next-to-leading order calculation of charm quark production in charged-current deep-inelastic scattering, with full charm-quark mass depende…

hep-ph2015★ 3 cited

Diphoton and Dark Matter from Cascade Decay

Fa Peng Huang, Chong Sheng Li, Ze Long Liu +1

We propose a simplified model to study the possible new heavy diphoton resonance from cascade decay of a heavier particle at colliders, which may be related to the dark matter or o…

hep-ph2015★ 1 cited

Signature of the +jet and dijet production mediated by an excited quark with QCD next-to-leading order accuracy at the LHC

Yong Chuan Zhan, Chong Sheng Li, Ze Long Liu +1

We present a detailed study of the production and decay of the excited quark at the QCD next-to-leading order (NLO) level at the Large Hadron Collider, using the narrow width appro…

hep-ph2015★ 12 cited

Resummation prediction on gauge boson pair production with a jet veto

Yan Wang, Chong Sheng Li, Ze Long Liu

We investigate the resummation effects with a jet veto, for WZ and ZZ productions at the LHC in soft-collinear effective theory. We present the invariant mass distributions and the…

hep-ph2014★ 12 cited

Resummation prediction on the jet mass spectrum in one-jet inclusive production at the LHC

Ze Long Liu, Chong Sheng Li, Jian Wang +1

We study the factorization and resummation prediction on the jet mass spectrum in one-jet inclusive production at the LHC based on soft-collinear effective theory. The soft functio…