https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09648-x
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Tagging the initial-state gluon
1
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova and INFN, Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genoa, Italy
2
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
Received:
25
August
2021
Accepted:
11
September
2021
Published online:
22
September
2021
We study the production of an electroweak boson in association with jets, in processes where the jet with the highest transverse momentum is identified as quark-initiated. The quark/gluon tagging procedure is realised by a cut on a jet angularity and it is therefore theoretically well-defined and exhibits infrared and collinear safety. In this context, exploiting resummed perturbation theory, we are able to provide theoretical predictions for transverse momentum distributions at a well-defined and, in principle, systematically improvable accuracy. In particular, tagging the leading jet as quark-initiated allows us to enhance the initial-state gluon contribution. Thus these novel transverse momentum distributions are potentially interesting observables to probe the gluonic degrees of freedom of the colliding protons.
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