The complete NLO corrections to dijet hadroproduction

Abstract

We study the production of jets in hadronic collisions, by computing all contributions proportional to ${\alpha }_S^n{\alpha }^m$, with $n+m=2$ and $n+m=3$. These correspond to leading and next-to-leading order results, respectively, for single-inclusive and dijet observables in a perturbative expansion that includes both QCD and electroweak effects. We discuss issues relevant to the definition of hadronic jets in the context of electroweak corrections, and present sample phenomenological predictions for the 13-TeV LHC. We find that both the leading and next-to-leading order contributions largely respect the relative hierarchy established by the respective coupling-constant combinations.

Comments: 30 pages, 14 figures; v2 contains minor changes to the text and to one label in fig.1, plus additional material in the form of an ancillary file that reports cross sections computed in various HT ranges