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June 4, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Analytical results for the C-angularity soft function at NNLO

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ABAlexander BennettDurham UniversityEBEmmet P. ByrneJGJonathan R. GauntUniversity of Manchester

Key Points

  • This research aims to compute the soft function and anomalous dimension for C-angularity at NNLO.
  • Calculated soft function at NLO and NNLO for various C-angularity parameters.
  • Developed expansions for C-angularity soft function and anomalous dimensions up to third and fourth order respectively.
  • Analyzed results for accuracy within the range −1 ≤ a < 1.
  • Obtained analytical results for the C-angularity soft function, allowing for simpler calculations than conventional methods.
  • Achieved precision at the few per mille level for the C-angularity parameter values between −1 and 1.

Abstract

We compute the soft function at NLO and NNLO for a one-parameter family of event shapes we call C-angularity. This family contains C-parameter as a specific choice of the parameter, in close analogy with how conventional angularity contains thrust as a special case. By construction, C-angularity and angularity coincide in the collinear limit such that the anomalous dimensions are equal. However, unlike angularity, C-angularity is a continuously differentiable function of the final state momenta, which makes the analytic calculation of the C-angularity soft function simpler. We obtain analytical results for the C-angularity soft function and anomalous dimension as an expansion in the C-angularity parameter a, to third and fourth order in a respectively. These expansions yield results that are accurate at the few per mille level for −1 ≤ a < 1.

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Bennett et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2117bfd499ed480b1708e6https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282026%29248
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