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On the resummation of clustering logarithms for non-global observables

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Clustering logs have been the subject of much study in recent literature. They are a class of large logs which arise for non-global jet-shape observables where final-state particles are clustered by a non-cone-like jet algorithm. Their resummation to all orders is highly non-trivial due to the role of clustering amongst soft gluons which results in the phase-space being non-factorisable. This may therefore significantly impact the accuracy of analytical estimations of many of such observables. Nonetheless, in this paper we address this very issue for jet shapes defined using the k t and C/A algorithms, taking the jet mass as our explicit example. We calculate the coefficients of the Abelian \(\alpha_s^2{L^2},\alpha_s^3{L^3}\) and \(\alpha_s^4{L^4}\) NLL terms in the exponent of the resummed distribution and show that the impact of these logs is small which gives confidence on the perturbative estimate without the neglected higher-order terms. Furthermore we numerically resum the non-global logs of the jet mass distribution in the k t algorithm in the large-N c limit.

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Delenda, Y., Khelifa-Kerfa, K. On the resummation of clustering logarithms for non-global observables. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 109 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2012)109

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