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We revisit the azimuthal decorrelation δϕ between a jet and a Z boson produced at hadron colliders. Employing different recombination schemes for the jets leads to significantly different NLL-resummed predictions for the distribution of this quantity. Specifically when the jets are reconstructed with the E-scheme (i.e., four-momentum addition) in the kt or anti-kt clustering algorithms, then the resummation becomes highly non-trivial due to the presence of non-global and/or clustering logarithms. We evaluate these logarithms analytically at two loops and numerically to all orders in the large-Nc limit, and present a full NLL resummation of δϕ. We extend the accuracy of the perturbative expansion of the resummed distribution at fixed order to NNLL accuracy by including \( \mathcal{O} \)(αs) NLO corrections obtained with MadGraph5_aMC@NLO. We compare our findings with results of various Monte Carlo event generators and with experimental data from the CMS collaboration.
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Bouaziz, H., Delenda, Y. & Khelifa-Kerfa, K. Azimuthal decorrelation between a jet and a Z boson at hadron colliders. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 6 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2022)006
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