28 September 2026 to 2 October 2026
University of Oxford
Europe/London timezone

Uncharted Logarithmic Structures in QCD Transverse-Energy Flow

1 Oct 2026, 11:50
20m
Seminar Room 8 (St Anne's College)

Seminar Room 8

St Anne's College

Standard slot High-scale QCD High-scale QCD

Speaker

Alexander Fraley (University of Manchester)

Description

I will discuss a new class of non-global observables defined by a veto on transverse-energy ($E_T$) flow inside an azimuthal interval $\Delta\phi$ about a chosen reference axis. Such vetoes are widely used in LHC measurements involving missing transverse momentum, yet they probe a kinematic regime whose logarithmic structure has not been explored before. We show that these observables exhibit logarithms more singular than any previously reported: both non-global logarithms (NGLs) and coherence-violating logarithms (CVLs) acquire an extra power of the large logarithm relative to standard non-global observables. I will focus on the CVL sector---computing the leading coherence-violating contribution and showing that it is enhanced from NDL to NNDL accuracy---which makes this observable an unusually sensitive probe of collinear-factorization breaking at hadron colliders. Capturing these enhanced CVLs requires resummation techniques beyond the standard non-global toolkit, which I will discuss. I will also summarize the all-orders analysis for $pp$ collisions, including analytical resummation at next-to-double-logarithmic accuracy and numerical leading-logarithmic resummation in the Veneziano limit.

Authors

Alexander Fraley (University of Manchester) Mrinal Dasgupta (The University of Manchester (GB)) Pier Francesco Monni (CERN) Saad Nabeebaccus (University of Manchester)

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