Journal of High Energy Physics (May 2019)

Integrated triple-collinear counter-terms for the nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme

  • Maximilian Delto,
  • Kirill Melnikov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)148
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2019, no. 5
pp. 1 – 24

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Abstract We obtain analytic results for integrated triple-collinear splitting functions that emerge as collinear counter-terms in the context of the nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme [1]. With these results, all integrated subtraction terms required for NNLO QCD computations within this scheme are known analytically. In addition to improving efficiency and numerical stability of practical computations, the availability of these results will contribute towards establishing a general NNLO QCD subtraction formula for generic hard scattering processes in hadron collisions, similar to Catani-Seymour and FKS subtractions at NLO.

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