Two-loop Jet-Function and Jet-Mass for Top Quarks

Jain, Ambar; Scimemi, Ignazio; Stewart, Iain W.

Two-loop Jet-Function and Jet-Mass for Top Quarks

Authors

Jain, Ambar

Scimemi, Ignazio

Stewart, Iain W.

Description

We compute the two-loop heavy quark jet-function in the heavy quark limit. This is one of the key ingredients in next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and next-to-next-to-leading-log order (NNLL) computations of the invariant mass distribution of top-jets at a future e+e- collider. The shape of the top invariant mass distribution is affected by large logs which we compute at NNLL order. Exploiting the non-abelian exponentiation theorem, a definition of the top jet-mass is given which is transitive and whose renormalization group evolution is determined by the cusp-anomalous dimension to all orders in perturbation theory. Relations of the jet-mass to the pole, MSbar, and 1S masses are presented at two-loop order.
25 pages, some typos corrected in text and references; 1 figure replaced