Jet Production at NNLO: Exploring a New Scheme

Abstract

We consider dijet production in $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ collisions and in $H\to b\bar{b}$ decays at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD. A new non-local subtraction scheme is applied, for the first time, to obtain the fully differential cross section for these benchmark processes. We discuss and explicitly evaluate the perturbative ingredients needed in the computation, and we compare the performance of different slicing variables to obtain the NNLO corrections.

Comments: 26 pages, 2 figures