TY - JOUR
T1 - Fragmentation of a jet with small radius
AU - Dai, Lin
AU - Kim, Chul
AU - Leibovich, Adam K.
N1 - Funding Information:
C.K. was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, Information & Communication Technology, and Future Planning (Grant No. NRF-2014R1A2A1A11052687). A.L. and L.D. were supported in part by NSF Grant No. PHY-1519175.
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© 2016 American Physical Society.
PY - 2016/12/21
Y1 - 2016/12/21
N2 - In this paper, we consider the fragmentation of a parton into a jet with small jet radius R. Perturbatively, logarithms of R can appear, which for narrow jets can lead to large corrections. Using soft-collinear effective theory, we introduce the fragmentation function to a jet (FFJ), which describes the fragmentation of a parton into a jet. We discuss how these objects are related to the standard jet functions. Calculating the FFJ to next-to-leading order, we show that these objects satisfy the standard Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi evolution equations, with a natural scale that depends upon R. By using the standard renormalization group evolution, we can therefore resum logarithms of R. We further use the soft-collinear effective theory to prove a factorization theorem where the FFJs naturally appear, for the fragmentation of a hadron within a jet with small R. Finally, we also show how this formalism can be used to resum the ratio of jet radii for a subjet to be emitted from within a fat jet.
AB - In this paper, we consider the fragmentation of a parton into a jet with small jet radius R. Perturbatively, logarithms of R can appear, which for narrow jets can lead to large corrections. Using soft-collinear effective theory, we introduce the fragmentation function to a jet (FFJ), which describes the fragmentation of a parton into a jet. We discuss how these objects are related to the standard jet functions. Calculating the FFJ to next-to-leading order, we show that these objects satisfy the standard Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi evolution equations, with a natural scale that depends upon R. By using the standard renormalization group evolution, we can therefore resum logarithms of R. We further use the soft-collinear effective theory to prove a factorization theorem where the FFJs naturally appear, for the fragmentation of a hadron within a jet with small R. Finally, we also show how this formalism can be used to resum the ratio of jet radii for a subjet to be emitted from within a fat jet.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.114023
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.94.114023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85012005931
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 94
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 11
M1 - 114023
ER -