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Universality of next-to-leading power threshold effects for colourless final states in hadronic collisions

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  • V. Del Duca1,2,
  • E. Laenen3,4,5,
  • L. Magnea6,
  • L. Vernazza7 &
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  • C.D. White8 

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We consider the production of an arbitrary number of colour-singlet particles near partonic threshold, and show that next-to-leading order cross sections for this class of processes have a simple universal form at next-to-leading power (NLP) in the energy of the emitted gluon radiation. Our analysis relies on a recently derived factorisation formula for NLP threshold effects at amplitude level, and therefore applies both if the leading-order process is tree-level and if it is loop-induced. It holds for differential distributions as well. The results can furthermore be seen as applications of recently derived next-to-soft theorems for gauge theory amplitudes. We use our universal expression to re-derive known results for the production of up to three Higgs bosons at NLO in the large top mass limit, and for the hadro-production of a pair of electroweak gauge bosons. Finally, we present new analytic results for Higgs boson pair production at NLO and NLP, with exact top-mass dependence.

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  1. ETH Zurich, Institut fur theoretische Physik, Wolfgang-Paulistr. 27, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland

    V. Del Duca

  2. INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044, Frascati (Roma), Italy

    V. Del Duca

  3. Nikhef, Science Park 105, NL-1098 XG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    E. Laenen

  4. ITFA, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    E. Laenen

  5. ITF, Utrecht University, Leuvenlaan 4, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    E. Laenen

  6. Dipartimento di Fisica and Arnold-Regge Center, Università di Torino, and INFN, Sezione di Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, I-10125, Torino, Italy

    L. Magnea

  7. Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, Scotland, U.K.

    L. Vernazza

  8. Centre for Research in String Theory, School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, 327 Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, U.K.

    C.D. White

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Del Duca, V., Laenen, E., Magnea, L. et al. Universality of next-to-leading power threshold effects for colourless final states in hadronic collisions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 57 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2017)057

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