# Joint Two-Dimensional Resummation in $q_T$ and $0$-Jettiness at NNLL

**Authors:** Gillian Lustermans, Johannes K. L. Michel, Frank J. Tackmann, and, Wouter J. Waalewijn

arXiv: 1901.03331 · 2020-10-08

## TL;DR

This paper develops a novel two-dimensional resummation technique for initial-state radiation in Drell-Yan processes, simultaneously resumming logarithms in both $q_T$ and $0$-jettiness at NNLL order, providing more precise theoretical predictions.

## Contribution

It introduces the first analytic two-dimensional Sudakov resummation for initial-state radiation, combining $q_T$ and $0$-jettiness resummation at NNLL order with a new impact-parameter space method.

## Key findings

- First two-dimensional analytic Sudakov resummation for initial-state radiation.
- Resummation matches fixed order results when integrated over one variable.
- Method applicable to any color-singlet production process.

## Abstract

We consider Drell-Yan production $pp \to Z/\gamma^* \to \ell^+\ell^-$ with the simultaneous measurement of the $Z$-boson transverse momentum $q_T$ and $0$-jettiness $\mathcal{T}_0$. Since both observables resolve the initial-state QCD radiation, the double-differential cross section in $q_T$ and $\mathcal{T}_0$ contains Sudakov double logarithms of both $q_T/Q$ and $\mathcal{T}_0/Q$, where $Q \sim m_Z$ is the dilepton invariant mass. We simultaneously resum the logarithms in $q_T$ and $\mathcal{T}_0$ to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic order (NNLL) matched to next-to-leading fixed order (NLO). Our results provide the first genuinely two-dimensional analytic Sudakov resummation for initial-state radiation. Integrating the resummed double-differential spectrum with an appropriate scale choice over either $\mathcal{T}_0$ or $q_T$ recovers the corresponding single-differential resummation for the remaining variable. We discuss in detail the required effective field theory setups and their combination using two-dimensional resummation profile scales. We also introduce a new method to perform the $q_T$ resummation where the underlying resummation is carried out in impact-parameter space, but is consistently turned off depending on the momentum-space target value for $q_T$. Our methods apply at any order and for any color-singlet production process, such that our results can be systematically extended when the relevant perturbative ingredients become available.

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