The Resummation of soft gluons in hadronic collisions

Catani, Stefano; Mangano, Michelangelo L.; Nason, Paolo; Trentadue, Luca

doi:10.1016/0550-3213(96)00399-9

The Resummation of soft gluons in hadronic collisions

Stefano Catani
(
- INFN, Florence and
- Florence U.
)
,
Michelangelo L. Mangano
(
- CERN
)
,
Paolo Nason
(
- CERN
)
,
Luca Trentadue
(
- Parma U. and
- INFN, Parma
)

Mar, 1996

45 pages

Published in:

Nucl.Phys.B 478 (1996) 273-310

e-Print:

hep-ph/9604351 [hep-ph]

DOI:

10.1016/0550-3213(96)00399-9

Report number:

CERN-TH-96-86

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Abstract:

We compute the effects of soft gluon resummation for the production of high mass systems in hadronic collisions. We carefully analyse the growth of the perturbative expansion coefficients of the resummation formula. We propose an expression consistent with the known leading and next-to-leading resummation results, in which the coefficients grow much less than factorially. We apply our formula to Drell--Yan pair production, heavy flavour production, and the production of high invariant mass jet pairs in hadronic collisions. We find that, with our formula, resummation effects become important only fairly close to the threshold region. In the case of heavy flavour production we find that resummation effects are small in the experimental configurations of practical interest.

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45 pages, Latex, epsfig, 10 figures Report-no: CERN-TH/96-86

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