https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2771-0
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Transverse momentum resummation for color sextet and antitriplet scalar production at the LHC
1
School of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
2
Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
* e-mail: csli@pku.edu.cn
Received:
4
November
2013
Accepted:
5
February
2014
Published online:
26
February
2014
We study the factorization and resummation of the transverse momentum spectrum of the color sextet and antitriplet scalars produced at the LHC based on soft-collinear effective theory. Compared to boson and Higgs production, a soft function is required to account for the soft gluon emission from the final-state colored scalar. The soft function is calculated at the next-to-leading order, and the resummation is performed at the approximate next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. The non-perturbative effects and PDF uncertainties are also discussed.
© The Author(s), 2014