Jul 8 – 10, 2026
University of Manchester
Europe/London timezone

New logarithmic structures in transverse-energy flow observables with azimuthal vetoes

Jul 10, 2026, 11:25 AM
25m
Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre, Schuster Building (University of Manchester)

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre, Schuster Building

University of Manchester

Speaker

Saad Nabeebaccus (University of Manchester)

Description

In this talk, I will discuss a class of non-global observables in which one vetoes transverse-energy flow inside an azimuthal interval $\Delta \phi$ defined with respect to a suitable reference axis. Such vetoes are widely used in measurements involving missing transverse momentum at the LHC and probe a kinematic regime that has not previously been explored. We show that these observables exhibit novel logarithmic structures. In particular, both non-global logarithms (NGLs) and coherence-violating logarithms (CVLs) acquire an additional power of the large logarithm $L$, making them more singular than in standard non-global observables. For $pp$ collisions, we study the all-orders structure of these logarithms and perform an analytical resummation at next-to-double-logarithmic (NDL) accuracy, together with a numerical leading-logarithmic (LL) resummation in the large-$N_c$ limit. Furthermore, we calculate the leading contribution of the CVLs and show that they are enhanced from N$^{3}$DL to NNDL accuracy. This enhanced sensitivity makes the observable a particularly promising probe of collinear-factorization breaking at hadron colliders.

Authors

Alexander Fraley (University of Manchester) Saad Nabeebaccus (University of Manchester)

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