The gluon beam function at two loops

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Abstract: The virtuality-dependent beam function is a universal ingredient in the resummation for observables probing the virtuality of incoming partons, including N -jettiness and beam thrust. We compute the gluon beam function at two-loop order. Together with our previous results for the two-loop quark beam function, this completes the full set of virtuality-dependent beam functions at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). Our results are required to account for all collinear initial-state radiation effects on the N -jettiness event shape through N 3 LL order. We present numerical results for both the quark and gluon beam functions up to NNLO and N 3 LL order. Numerically, the NNLO matching corrections are important. They reduce the residual matching scale dependence in the resummed beam function by about a factor of two.

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Gaunt, J. R., Stahlhofen, M., & Tackmann, F. J. (2014). The gluon beam function at two loops. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(8). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2014)020

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