Soft gluon resummation for slepton pair-production

Abstract

We report on recent results on the differential cross section for slepton pair-production at hadron colliders. We use an approach to threshold resummation, based on soft-collinear effective theory, to quantify the dynamical enhancement of the partonic threshold region. We evaluate the resummed invariant mass distribution and total cross section at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic order, and match the result onto next-to-leading order calculation.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, talk presented at the Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics 2011, (EPS-HEP 2011), Grenoble, July 21-27, 2011