Isolated photon and photon+jet production at NNLO QCD accuracy
Abstract
We describe the calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to isolated photon and photon-plus-jet production, and discuss how the experimental hadron-level photon definition and isolation criteria can be approximated in the theoretical parton-level calculation. The NNLO corrections lead to a considerable reduction of the theory uncertainty on the predictions, typically to less than five per cent, and enable an improved description of experimental measurements from ATLAS and CMS.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1007/JHEP04(2020)166
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1904.01044
- Bibcode:
- 2020JHEP...04..166C
- Keywords:
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- QCD Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- JHEP version, 30 pages, 17 figures