A QCD description of the ATLAS jet veto measurement

Y. Hatta , Catherine Marquet , C. Royon , Gregory Soyez (1) , T. Ueda , D. Werder

1 SPhT - Service de Physique Théorique

We present a new QCD description of the ATLAS jet veto measurement, using the Banfi-Marchesini-Smye equation to constrain the inter-jet QCD radiation. This equation resums emissions of soft gluons at large angles, at leading-logarithmic accuracy, and accounts for both the so-called Sudakov and non-global logarithms. We show that this approach is able to reproduce, with no fitting parameters, the fraction of high-pT forward/backward di-jet events which do not contain additional hard emissions in the inter-jet rapidity range. We also compute the gap fraction in fixed-order perturbation theory to O(alpha_s^2) and show that the perturbative series is unstable at large rapidity intervals.

Domains: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph]

Y. Hatta, Catherine Marquet, C. Royon, Gregory Soyez, T. Ueda, et al.. A QCD description of the ATLAS jet veto measurement. 2013. ⟨cea-01068781⟩