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We consider Drell-Yan production and QCD-induced diphoton production and compute their rapidity distributions up to next-to-leading power (NLP) in the threshold variable. We give results for rapidity distributions of the Drell-Yan process up to NNLO accuracy and show that a factorised structure occurs for the leading logarithms (LL) at NLP, generalising the result at leading power. For diphoton production, we generalise methods based on kinematical shifts to find the NLO cross section up to NLP for rapidity distributions. From the results for these two processes, we derive resummed cross sections at NLP LL accuracy that are double differential in the threshold variable and the rapidity variable, which generalise results for single differential resummed cross sections.
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L.V. is supported by Fellini - Fellowship for Innovation at INFN, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Cofund Action, grant agreement no. 754496 and by Compagnia di San Paolo through grant TORP_S1921_EX-POST_21_01. The research of G.W. was supported in part by the International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program from China Postdoctoral Council under Grant No. PC2021066.
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van Bijleveld, R., Laenen, E., Vernazza, L. et al. Next-to-leading power resummed rapidity distributions near threshold for Drell-Yan and diphoton production. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 126 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2023)126
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