Threshold and Jet Radius Joint Resummation for Single-Inclusive Jet Production

Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Nov 24;119(21):212001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.212001. Epub 2017 Nov 20.

Abstract

We present the first threshold and jet radius jointly resummed cross section for single-inclusive hadronic jet production. We work at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy and our framework allows for a systematic extension beyond the currently achieved precision. Long-standing numerical issues are overcome by performing the resummation directly in momentum space within soft collinear effective theory. We present the first numerical results for the LHC and observe an improved description of the available data. Our results are of immediate relevance for LHC precision phenomenology including the extraction of parton distribution functions and the QCD strong coupling constant.