Resummation of electroweak Sudakov logarithms for real radiation

Abstract

Using the known resummation of virtual corrections together with knowledge of the leading-log structure of real radiation in a parton shower, we derive analytic expressions for the resummed real radiation after they have been integrated over all of phase space. Performing a numerical analysis for both the 13 TeV LHC and a 100 TeV $pp$ collider, we show that resummation of the real corrections is at least as important as resummation of the virtual corrections, and that this resummation has a sizable effect for partonic center of mass energies exceeding $\sqrt{s}=\mathcal{O}$(few TeV). For partonic center of mass energies $\sqrt{s}\gtrsim$ 10 TeV, which can be reached at a 100 TeV collider, resummation becomes an O(1) effect and needs to be included even for rough estimates of the cross-sections.

Comments: 23 pages, 6 figures, Several changes to original version, in particular a derivation of the exclusive real cross-section. Version published in JHEP