QCD Corrections and Non-linear Mappings...Singularities do not always factorise in energies and...
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QCD Corrections and Non-linear Mappings
Franz Herzog
CHIPP Plenary Meeting 2012
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The LHC is a QCD machine
The dynamics of collisions is therefore predominantly governed by QCD
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QCD Corrections ?
The LHC is build primarily (not just to study QCD) to answer a number of fundamental questions:
What is the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking?
What is the origin of mass? Are Supersymmetry, extra dimensions are realized at the
TeV Scale? Dark matter?
QCD corrections will be crucial to answer these questions
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Is the bump in the LHC data the Standard Model Higgs boson?
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Is the bump in the LHC data the Standard Model Higgs boson?
To determine how Standard this (Higgs) boson is requires not only precise measurement, but also precise knowledge ofthe Higgs production cross-section.
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QQCCDD
At high energies QCD becomes weakly coupled, allowing for a perturbative expansion
Asymptotic freedomConfinement
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Example: bb to Higgs at NNLO
Virtual
LO
NLO
NNLO
Real
Double-virtualReal-virtualDouble-real
Born
The coefficients of the expansion can be computed via Feynman Diagrams:
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Infra-red singularities at NLO
Consider the effect of QCD radiation
Soft Collinear
At NLO, infra-red (IR) singularities naturally factorise in energies and angles
Factorised singularities can be dealt with using the plus-distribution expansion
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Laurent expanding factorised singularities
Allows to extract the pole for an arbitrary numerator function:
InfiniteInfinitecontributioncontribution
FiniteFinitecontributioncontribution
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Infra-red Singularities at NNLO
Different ”topologies”
correspond to different
singularity structures
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Infra-red Singularities at NNLO
Different ”topologies”
correspond to different
singularity structures
Singularities do not always factorise in energies and angles e.g.
Overlapping singularities!
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Fully differential?
Finite observables are sums of infrared divergent quantities:
Integration boundaries must be kept arbitrary in order to simulate the experimental set-up realistically.
Overlapping Singularities
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A historical perspective on IR subtraction
Subtraction schemes for NLO: (fully differential works for all initial and final states)
1991: phase space slicing [Glover, Giele,Kosower]
1995: FKS (residue subtraction) [Firxione, Kunszt, Signer]
1996: Dipole subtraction [Catani, Seymour]
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A historical perspective on IR subtraction
Subtraction schemes for NLO: (fully differential works for all initial and final states)
1991: phase space slicing [Glover, Giele,Kosower]
1995: FKS (residue subtraction) [Firxione, Kunszt, Signer]
1996: Dipole subtraction [Catani, Seymour]
Subtraction for NNLO: (only e+e- and hadronic collisions)
2003: Sector Decomposition [Anastasiou, Melnikov,Petriello]2003: e+e- → 2jets; 2005: pp(gg) → H; 2006: pp→ W,Z;
2005: Antennas [Glover, Gehrmann, Gehrmann-De Ridder] (fairly general) 2007: e+e- → 3jets
2006: subtraction scheme for jets [Somogyi, Trocsanyi, Del Duca] (a general proposal!)
2007: Kt-subtraction:[Catani, Grazzini] (color singlets) 2007: pp(gg) → H; 2011 pp →WH; 2012 pp → diphoton;
2010: General subtraction with sector decomposition [Czakon] (proposal, With proof of concept for top anti-top production)
2010: Non-linear Mappings [Anastasiou, FH, Lazopoulos]: (massive colored final states and color-singlets) 2012: pp(bb) → H
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Example with Sector Decomposition:
Consider an overlapping divergence at x=0=y:
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Example with Sector Decomposition:
Consider an overlapping divergence at x=0=y:
Split integrand:
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Example with Sector Decomposition:
Consider an overlapping divergence at x=0=y:
Split integrand:
Rescale
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Example with Nonlinear Mapping:
We reconsider
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Example with Nonlinear Mapping:
We reconsider
Now try
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Example with Nonlinear Mapping:
We reconsider
Now try
to remap boundaries, use a nonlinear transformation
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Properties of the non-linear mapping
The mapping can be expressed as:
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Properties of the non-linear mapping
The mapping can be expressed as:
Treats on the same footing:
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Properties of the non-linear mapping
The mapping can be expressed as:
Treats on the same footing:
Abelian composition law:
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Properties of the non-linear mapping
The mapping can be expressed as:
Treats on the same footing:
Abelian composition law:
Inverse:
The mapping represents an abelian group!
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Properties of the non-linear mapping
The mapping can be used to derive
Feynman's identity:
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Properties of the non-linear mapping
The mapping can be used to derive
Feynman's identity:
This result can be generalised to what I shall term
the Fenyman Inversion trick:
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A more complicated example
A Feynman parameterisation of the non-planar massless two-loop triangle:
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A more complicated example
A Feynman parameterisation of the non-planar massless two-loop triangle:
Shrink the product yz into a single variable via
Obtain:
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A more complicated example
A Feynman parameterisation of the non-planar massless two-loop triangle:
Shrink the product yz into a single variable via
Obtain:
Notice the form of the denominator is
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A more complicated example
The Feynman inversion trick thus leads us to apply
We obtain
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A more complicated example
The Feynman inversion identity thus leads us to apply
We obtain
The singular denominator is (again!) of the formand can be fully factorised with .We obtain 64 sectors
with Sector Decomposition!
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Applications of the Non-linear Applications of the Non-linear Mapping approach to LHC Mapping approach to LHC
observablesobservables
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Higgs decay into bottom quarks
DOMINANT Decay for the light Higgs.
But still impossible to see in the b anti-b backgound!
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Only chance is associated Higgs
A good chance is to search in associated production: HW, HZ, Httbar b
anti-bH
W,Z
This is still not enough cross section to overcome dijet, single top and VV production backgrounds, even at the 14 TeV LHV with 30 inverse fb.
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FAT Jet Analysis
Uses highly boosted events to cut out major background
Gluon radiation off bottom quarks is important for fat jet analysis [Butterworth, Davison, Rubin, Salam ]
Search strategy relies on higher order effects!
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1st fully differential computation of H to bottom quarks @ NNLO
DOUBLE VIRTUAL:Easily done analytically (use AIR, Master Integrals known since 1987)
REAL-VIRTUAL:Nontrivial overlapping singularities between virtual and real
DOUBLE REAL:Difficult overlapping structures, perfect testing ground for non-linear mapping
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Differential Results for H to bb at NNLO
Jet rates with the JADE jet algorithm:
The maximum energy of the leading jet in the 2 jet rate:
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Double real corrections to massive final states in hadronic collisions
Developed a strategy to factorise all interferences of singular denominators.
The method is applicable to a large number of final states, including:
pp → H, W, Z, WH, ZH, WW, ZZ, ttbar, HH,...
The method could be extended to include also jets in the final states
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Higgs production in bottom quark fusion
In the Standard Model gluon fusionis dominant
BSM models (e.g. 2HDM, MSSM, dynamical yukawas) can enhance the coupling between bottom quarks and the Higgs boson
The bottom fusion channel can (still) become dominant
Motivates a fully differential NNLO computation
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1st fully differential Results for bb to H at NNLO
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Summary
Established a method for the factorisation of overlapping singularities via a non-linear mapping
Showed that the method works for maximally singular loop integrals
Derived a method for double real corrections for the hadronic production of massive states and color singlets
Computed the fully differential H to bb decay rate at NNLO Presented jet rates and the distribution Energy of the leading jet
Computed the fully differential bb to H cross section at NNLO
Presented a number of distributions
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Conclusions & Outlook
Our non-linear mapping is well suited for factorising singularities at NNLO and beyond
We found that the numerical convergence of observables was surprisingly fast and believe that the method is more efficient than the sector decomposition approach
We are looking forward to combine our code for H to bb with a code for the production of a Higgs boson in the associated production
For the bb to H the future could be bright if the Higgs sector turns out not to be minimal, i.e. enhanced Yukawa couplings etc
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Hadronic cross section for bb to H
The hadronic cross section is a convolution of parton distribution functions and the partonic cross-section:
Colliding Protons
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