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Resumming transverse observables for NNLO+PS matching in GENEVA

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Pith's one-line read This paper establishes the first beyond-leading-log resummation of a transverse-measure one-jettiness and uses it, together with N3LL qT resummation, to build NNLO+PS generators for Higgs production in b-bbar and c-cbar annihilation.

desk verdict New T1^pT NLL' resummation is real and honestly presented, but the validation stops short of demonstrating the evolution itself; still worth refereeing. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.14773 v1 pith:EPBMWXZG submitted 2025-05-20 hep-ph hep-ex

classification hep-phhep-ex
keywords NNLO+PSmatchingtransverseobservablesqTresummationone-jettinessSCET-IIfactorisationheavy-quarkannihilationGENEVANLL'
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper builds event generators that reach next-to-next-to-leading-order accuracy matched to a parton shower (NNLO+PS) using resolution variables that are both transverse-momentum-like. It claims the first resummation beyond leading logarithm of a transverse-measure one-jettiness, denoted $T_1^{pT}$, and combines it with $q_T$ resummation at N3LL inside the GENEVA framework. The case study is Higgs boson production in heavy-quark annihilation, i.e. $b\bar b \to H$ and $c\bar c \to H$, where the Higgs transverse momentum spectrum is a key observable. If correct, the construction provides NNLO+PS predictions with a high-accuracy $q_T$ spectrum, a jet-resolution variable that matches naturally to $p_T$-ordered showers, and a first step toward NNLO+PS for colour-singlet production with an associated jet.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the transverse one-jettiness $T_1^{pT}$ of eq. (18): emissions are assigned to a beam or jet region by the conical measure (an anti-$k_T$-like distance), and then weighted by $p_{T,i}$ in the beam region or by the boost-invariant broadening distance $R_{iJ}$ in the jet region. Because these measures are both of SCET-II type, the singular cross section factorises into hard, soft, beam and jet functions, eq. (21), with the one-loop soft function from ref. [61] and the winner-take-all axis equivalence from ref. [59] providing the required ingredients. The NLL' resummation is obtained by evolving these functions in virtuality and rapidity, solved analytically in Laplace space. On the $q_T$ side the machinery is the N3LL resummation from the SCETlib module with hybrid profile scales, and the GENEVA splitting mappings are chosen to preserve the colour-singlet four-momentum and the hardest-parton rapidity.

What would settle it

A concrete falsifier is a two-loop computation of the soft function for $T_1^{pT}$ with the conical measure: if the resulting NNLL correction does not match the structure implied by the one-loop-based evolution equations, the NLL' resummation is incorrect. A cheaper check is to compute the $T_1^{pT}$ spectrum at NLO$_1$ without assuming factorisation and test whether the nonsingular remainder vanishes linearly as $T_1^{pT}\to 0$ over the full phase space, not only at the validation point.

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Core claim

The central claim is that the generalised one-jettiness $T_1^{pT}$, defined by conical region assignment and a boost-invariant broadening measure in the jet region, is a SCET-II observable whose cross section factorises as in eq. (21), so its logarithmically enhanced terms can be resummed to NLL'. The paper presents that resummation for the first time and embeds it in GENEVA together with N3LL $q_T$ resummation from SCETlib, producing generators for $b\bar b \to H$ and $c\bar c \to H$. The parton-level $q_T$ spectrum of the generator agrees exactly with SCETlib, and the showered spectrum is indistinguishable from it within Monte Carlo error. Fixed-order validation against SusHi and MCFM supports the claimed NNLO normalisation, and the nonsingular $T_1^{pT}$ remnant is shown to vanish linearly in the small-$T_1^{pT}$ limit, as the claimed logarithmic accuracy requires.

Load-bearing premise

The argument assumes the SCET-II factorisation of eq. (21), with the conical measure and the winner-take-all jet axis, applies over all of phase space used by GENEVA; if soft-recoil or non-perturbative contributions are missed by that factorisation, the claimed NLL' accuracy of the 1/2-jet separation would fail.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The $b\bar b \to H$ and $c\bar c \to H$ generators provide parton-level $q_T$ distributions at N3LL+NNLO accuracy, and the showered $q_T$ distribution agrees with the parton-level one to within Monte Carlo error.
  • Because both resolution variables are transverse, the matching is compatible with $p_T$-ordered showers without truncated showering, simplifying future GENEVA implementations.
  • The NLL' $T_1^{pT}$ resummation is a first step toward NNLO+PS matching for colour-singlet production in association with a hard jet; reaching NNLL' would require a two-loop soft function.
  • Applying the same generator construction to Drell-Yan would yield $W/Z$ production with N3LL+NNLO $q_T$ accuracy by construction, removing the need for a separate reweighting step.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The two-loop soft function for $T_1^{pT}$ could be computed with existing soft-function technology; whether its structure matches the one-loop-based NLL' prediction would give a sharp test of the factorisation beyond the validations shown.
  • The same transverse-measure construction could be carried over to $Z$+jet or $H$+jet processes, where the transverse one-jettiness may make $p_T$-ordered shower matching as natural as it is for the colour-singlet case; the paper notes the required resummation level but does not implement it.
  • The large (up to 40%) difference between spectrum and cumulant scale-setting conventions in the $b\bar b \to H$ transition region implies that phenomenological studies using this generator should state the scale-setting choice explicitly when quoting $q_T$ spectra.
  • A direct comparison of the full showered NNLO+PS prediction against an independent generator for the same process, rather than only fixed-order validation, would quantify the residual matching ambiguity from the new variable.
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Referee Report

2 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper reports a GENEVA implementation that uses two transverse resolution variables to build NNLO+PS generators for Higgs production in heavy-quark annihilation (bb->H and cc->H). The 0/1-jet separation is based on the colour-singlet transverse momentum qT, resummed at N3LL using SCETlib and its published profile-scale setup. The new element is the 1/2-jet separation variable T1^pT, a transverse-measure one-jettiness defined in Eq. (18), for which the authors construct a resummation at NLL' accuracy starting from the SCET-II factorisation in Eq. (21). Fixed-order validation is provided against SusHi and MCFM, the qT spectrum is compared with a standalone SCETlib run, and the logarithmic structure of the T1^pT singular cross section is checked in Fig. 3. Showered results are compared with parton-level results for rapidity, qT, and hardest-jet distributions.

Significance. If the accuracy claims are substantiated, the paper provides a valuable new tool and a methodological step: it is, to my knowledge, the first implementation of a transverse-measure one-jettiness resummation beyond LL inside an NNLO+PS framework, and the use of qT plus T1^pT may improve matching to transverse-momentum-ordered showers. The work also benefits from transparent discussion of scale-setting choices, a clear separation between resummed and fixed-order regions, and explicit validation of the qT interface. The main weakness is that the central novelty, the NLL' resummation of T1^pT, is not validated at the order where the NLL' evolution kernels actually contribute, and no uncertainty estimate is attached to the T1^pT predictions. These issues are fixable but need to be addressed before the claim can be accepted.

major comments (2)
  1. [Sec. V C, Fig. 3 and Sec. IV B] The nonsingular comparison in Fig. 3 validates only the O(alpha_s) singular terms of the factorised cross section in Eq. (21). The NLL' evolution kernels (the two-loop cusp anomalous dimension and the one-loop noncusp/rapidity anomalous dimensions entering Eqs. (26), (28), (33)-(36), and the solutions in Eqs. (37)-(42)) first affect the expanded spectrum at O(alpha_s^2): errors in these kernels leave the linear suppression of the nonsingular remainder in Fig. 3 unchanged. I therefore do not regard the NLL' claim as numerically established. Please add a validation that exercises the two-loop singular terms, for example by comparing the O(alpha_s^2) expansion of the resummed T1^pT spectrum with the exact two-loop singular contribution, or by an explicit analytic consistency check of the rapidity and virtuality RGEs against the known one-loop ingredients.
  2. [Sec. V C, Fig. 4 and Sec. IV B] The resummed T1^pT spectrum is shown without any uncertainty band, and the paper does not specify the central scales, profile functions, or variation procedure used for the T1^pT resummation. Unlike the qT case, where Appendix A gives the hybrid profile scales and a 36-point envelope, Section IV B leaves the natural scales mu_H, mu_B, mu_S, mu_J, nu_B, nu_S, nu_J and their transition to the fixed-order region unspecified. Since Eqs. (6)-(7) use this resummation to separate the 1- and 2-jet bins, the size of missing higher-order effects in the exclusive jet binning is currently unquantified. Please provide the T1^pT scale prescription and at least one uncertainty estimate (e.g. an envelope obtained by varying the profile transition points and the resummation scales).
minor comments (4)
  1. [Sec. V B, Fig. 2] Because GENEVA is interfaced directly to the SCETlib qT module, the agreement between GENEVA and SCETlib in Fig. 2 is primarily a consistency check of the integration and mapping, not an independent validation of the N3LL resummation itself; the text should state this explicitly to avoid an apparent circularity.
  2. [Sec. V A, Fig. 1] The MCFM comparison uses a different PDF set and different renormalisation/factorisation scales (CT14NNLO, mu_F=mH/4, mu_R=mH) from the rest of the paper; a brief explanation of why this specific setup is required for the comparison would help readers judge the strength of the fixed-order validation.
  3. [Sec. V C, Figs. 3 and 4] The captions of Figs. 3 and 4 do not specify axis labels or units; adding explicit axis labels (e.g. T1^pT in GeV) and legend entries would improve readability.
  4. [Appendix C, Eq. (C8)] The notation L0(k, mu/Q) is not defined in Appendix B, where L0 is introduced as a plus distribution of a dimensionless argument; please clarify the arguments and normalisation of the logarithms in this expression.

Circularity Check

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No load-bearing circularity: the NLL' T1^pT resummation is built from external published SCET ingredients; the only self-citations fix interface and scale-setting conventions and do not force the central result.

full rationale

The paper's central new result, the NLL' resummation of the transverse-measure one-jettiness T1^pT, is not derived from the authors' own fitted or predicted quantities. The factorisation in eq. (21) and the one-loop soft function are taken from ref. [61]; the WTA-axis equivalence and broadening jet function from ref. [59]; the one-loop beam functions from refs. [65,66]; and the hard function from the standard one-loop QCD amplitude. These are external, parameter-free ingredients that do not assume the paper's target result. The qT N3LL component is obtained by directly interfacing SCETlib [31,58], with profile-scale choices adopted from the authors' earlier ref. [33] purely as a scale-setting convention. This is a minor self-citation, but it does not enter or force the T1^pT derivation. The external fixed-order benchmarks against SusHi and MCFM provide independent validation, and fig. 2 is explicitly a consistency and interface check of the Geneva wrapper against SCETlib, not a prediction generated from fitted parameters. Fig. 3 validates only the O(alpha_s) singular boundary terms of the T1^pT factorisation and does not exercise the NLL evolution kernels or profile-scale uncertainties; that is a validation gap and correctness risk, but not a circularity. No equation in the paper reduces to its own input, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the established qT factorisation and on the SCET-II factorisation for T1^pT, with the profile-scale and cut choices serving as free parameters. No invented entities are introduced.

free parameters (3)
  • Profile scale transition points (x1, x2, x3) = 0.1, 0.45, 0.8 (central); x2 varied 0.2-0.6
    Hybrid profile scales in Appendix A determine where resummation turns off; chosen by hand and varied for matching uncertainty.
  • Nonperturbative scale prescription mu* = mu*(x,y) = sqrt(x^2 + y^2)
    Freezes beam and soft scales at low b_T; a modelling choice from the literature (refs. [53,57]) not fitted to data.
  • Resolution cut values qcut_T and (T1^pT)^cut = 1 GeV for both; jet radius R = 0.4
    Technical slicing and jet definition choices used in the generator; qcut_T = 1 GeV is set small enough that missing power corrections are at the 0.2% level for the total cross section.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The qT factorisation for colour-singlet production in SCET (eq. 11) holds at leading power, and the N3LL resummation from SCETlib is correct for b bbar H and c cbar H.
    Invoked in Sec. III and V.B; imported from SCETlib and ref. [33]. This is a well-established framework, but the paper adds no independent derivation.
  • domain assumption The generalised one-jettiness T1^pT admits the SCET-II factorisation of eq. (21) with the one-loop soft function of ref. [61].
    Sec. IV.A-B. If this factorisation is incomplete for the conical measure with WTA axis, the NLL' resummation is invalid.
  • domain assumption The winner-take-all axis is equivalent to the N-jettiness minimisation axis at one-loop, making the soft function recoil-free.
    Sec. IV.A, based on ref. [59]; needed to avoid additional transverse-momentum convolutions.
  • domain assumption Leading-power qT singular terms contain all the two-loop information used for the approximate NNLO; power corrections below qcut_T are negligible at qcut_T = 1 GeV.
    Sec. V.A; the paper drops fixed-order NNLO terms and relies on the singular approximation, validated against SusHi for the total cross section but not for all differential distributions.
  • domain assumption Hybrid profile scales (Appendix A) and the nonperturbative mu* prescription correctly deactivate resummation at large qT and cover the associated uncertainty.
    Used for qT resummation; standard choices from refs. [55-57] and SCETlib.

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abstract

We study the use of higher-order resummation for transverse observables to achieve NNLO+PS matching within the GENEVA framework. In particular, we embed $q_T$ resummation for colour-singlet production at N$^3$LL obtained via soft-collinear effective theory and implemented in the library SCETlib within GENEVA. We also study for the first time the use of the generalised $N$-jettiness variable in parton shower matching, and achieve the resummation of the one-jettiness defined with transverse measures up to NLL$'$ accuracy. As a case study, we use these resummed calculations to construct a GENEVA NNLO+PS generator for Higgs boson production in heavy-quark annihilation (with beauty or charm-quarks in the initial state). The use of transverse measures facilitates the matching to showers ordered in transverse momentum, and opens the door to possible future extensions of this approach to the production of colour singlets in association with final-state jets.

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