A Precise Determination of alphas from the Heavy Jet Mass Distribution

Autor(en)
Miguel Angel Benitez-Rathgeb, Arindam Bhattacharya, André H. Hoang, Vicent Mateu, Matthew D. Schwartz, Iain W. Stewart, Xiaoyuan Zhang
Abstrakt

A global fit for alphas(Mz) is performed on available e+e- data for the heavy jet mass distribution. The state-of-the-art theory prediction includes O(as^3) fixed-order results, N3LL' dijet resummation, N2LL Sudakov shoulder resummation, and a first-principles treatment of power corrections in the dijet region. Theoretical correlations are incorporated through a flat random-scan covariance matrix. The global fit results in 0.1145+0.0021-0.0019, compatible with similar determinations from thrust and C-parameter. Dijet resummation is essential for a robust fit, as it engenders insensitivity to the fit-range lower cutoff; without resummation the fit-range sensitivity is overwhelming. In addition, we find evidence for a negative power correction in the trijet region if and only if Sudakov shoulder resummation is included.

Organisation(en)
Teilchenphysik
Externe Organisation(en)
Universidad de Salamanca, Harvard University, Cambridge, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Universität Wien
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.12253
Publikationsdatum
02-2025
ÖFOS 2012
103012 Hochenergiephysik
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/7fd9d9fa-2839-4c95-8301-d1d67d4decf5