NLO results for five, six and seven jets in electron-positron annihilation

TL;DR

This paper provides new next-to-leading order calculations for five, six, and seven jet rates in electron-positron annihilation, extending previous results up to five jets using a novel subtraction and numerical integration method.

Contribution

It introduces a new efficient method for NLO calculations that enables the computation of jet rates up to seven jets in electron-positron annihilation.

Findings

NLO results for six and seven jets are now available.

The method improves computational efficiency for high-multiplicity jet calculations.

Results agree with known lower jet rates, validating the approach.

Abstract

We present next-to-leading order corrections in the leading colour approximation for jet rates in electron-positron annihilation up to seven jets. The results for the two-, three-, and four-jet rates agree with known results. The NLO jet rates have been known previously only up to five jets. The results for the six- and seven-jet rate are new. The results are obtained by a new and efficient method based on subtraction and numerical integration.