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We present the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to dijet production in the purely gluonic channel retaining the full dependence on the number of colours. The sub-leading colour contribution in this channel first appears at NNLO and increases the NNLO correction by around 10% and exhibits a p T dependence, rising from 8% at low p T to 15% at high p T . The present calculation demonstrates the utility of the antenna subtraction method for computing the full colour NNLO corrections to dijet production at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Currie, J., Ridder, A.GD., Glover, E.W.N. et al. NNLO QCD corrections to jet production at hadron colliders from gluon scattering. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 110 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2014)110
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