Three-Jet Production in Electron-Positron Collisions at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Accuracy

Phys Rev Lett. 2016 Oct 7;117(15):152004. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.152004. Epub 2016 Oct 7.

Abstract

We introduce a completely local subtraction method for fully differential predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy for jet cross sections and use it to compute event shapes in three-jet production in electron-positron collisions. We validate our method on two event shapes, thrust and C parameter, which are already known in the literature at NNLO accuracy and compute for the first time oblateness and the energy-energy correlation at the same accuracy.