A Kulesza Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders Soft Gluon Resummation For Squark and Gluino Hadroproduction AK and L Motyka Phys Rev Lett 102 111802 2009 ID: 248997
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HO10, CERN, 01.07.10
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
Soft Gluon
Resummation For Squark and Gluino Hadroproduction
AK and L. Motyka, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 111802 (2009)AK and L. Motyka, Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 095004W. Beenakker, S. Brensing, M. Krämer, AK, E. Laenen and I. Niessen, JHEP 12 (2009) 041W. Beenakker, S. Brensing, M. Krämer, AK, E. Laenen and I. Niessen, arXiv:1006.4771 [hep-ph]
Anna Kulesza
HO10 Theory
Institute, CERN, 01.07.2010Slide2
Outline
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
p
erturbative higher order
effects at work at the LHCMotivation: why high precision for squark and gluino productionStatus of the predictions for squark and gluino production processesSoft gluon effects beyond NLO → resummation
Numerical predictions for the LHC (and Tevatron)Slide3
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A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
I. HIGHER ORDERS
= why higher orders for SUSY signals?Slide4
HO are Already Needed
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
(… for some processes and some quantities)Slide5
HO are Already Needed
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
(… for some processes and some quantities)
MSSM:
minimal content of SUSY particles + R-parity Hadron colliders: coloured sparticles most copiously producedSlide6
HO are Already Needed
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
(… for some processes and some quantities)
MSSM:
minimal content of SUSY particles + R-parity Hadron colliders: coloured sparticles most copiously producedHigh rates for pair-production of squarks and gluinosSlide7
HO are Already Needed
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
(… for some processes and some quantities)
MSSM:minimal content of SUSY particles + R-parity Hadron colliders: coloured sparticles most copiously producedHigh rates for pair-production of squarks and gluinosSquark and gluino production for SPS1a'xKey discovery processes in SUSY searches
xSlide8
Tevatron
searches
Inclusive information on
total production cross sectionscrucial for determination of mass limits in case of no discovery
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10squarksgluinosSlide9
HO will be needed
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10
No show at the LHC → determination of mass limits from inclusive measurements, see Tevatron
need predictions for total rates Slide10
Discovery
Exclusive information characteristic to decay products
mass spectrum determination through measurements of kinematic properties, e.g. endpoints of distributions
HO will be needed
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10 No show at the LHC → determination of mass limits from inclusive measurements, see Tevatron need predictions for total rates Slide11
SUSY parameter determination
For three-body decays mass reconstruction via kinematic endpoints difficultSome BSM scenarios, e.g. models of extra dimensions, can predict similar to SUSY cascade decay signatures at the LHC
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10
Need additional information on event ratesSlide12
SUSY parameter determination
For three-body decays mass reconstruction via kinematic endpoints difficultSome BSM scenarios, e.g. models of extra dimensions, can predict similar to SUSY cascade decay signatures at the LHC
Adding information on cross sections to information on kinematical edges significantly improves accuracy of
SUSY parameter determination from global fits
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10Need additional information on event ratesΔχ2[Dreiner, Krämer, Lindert, O’Leary’10]SPS1a7 TeV, 1fb-1Slide13
SUSY parameter determination
For three-body decays mass reconstruction via kinematic endpoints difficultSome BSM scenarios, e.g. models of extra dimensions, can predict similar to SUSY cascade decay signatures at the LHC
Adding information on cross sections to information on kinematical edges significantly improves accuracy of of SUSY parameter determination from global fits
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10Need additional information on event ratesΔχ2[Dreiner, Krämer, Lindert, O’Leary’10] NLO vs LO: substantial reduction of errors on (some) parameter values!SPS1a7 TeV, 1fb-1Slide14
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A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
II. PERTURBATIVE HIGHER ORDER EFFECTSSlide15
Partonic subprocesses
Leading Order = O
(αs2)
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10[Kane, Leveille'82][Harrison, Llewellyn Smith'84][Dawson, Eichten, Quigg'85]Slide16
NLO SUSY-QCD
corrections →
O
(αs3 ) [Beenakker, Höpker, Spira, Zerwas'96] [Beenakker, Krämer, Plehn, Spira, Zerwas’97For squark-antisquark production: dominant NNLO contributions (NNLL-NNLO, Coulomb, scale dependence) → O(αs4 ) [Langenfeld, Moch'09]EW corrections → O(αs2 α2) [
Hollik, Kollar, Trenkel'07][Hollik, Mirabella'08] [Hollik, Mirabella, Trenkel'08] [Beccaria et al.'08] [Mirabella'09] [Germer, Hollik, Mirabella, Trenkel’10]Theoretical StatusHO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and
gluino production at hadron collidersFixed-order corrections to O(αs2) processesSlide17
NLO SUSY-QCD
corrections →
O
(αs3 ) [Beenakker, Höpker, Spira, Zerwas'96] [Beenakker, Krämer, Plehn, Spira, Zerwas’97For squark-antisquark production: dominant NNLO contributions (NNLL-NNLO, Coulomb, scale dependence) → O(αs4 ) [Langenfeld, Moch'09]EW corrections → O(αs2 α2) [
Hollik, Kollar, Trenkel'07][Hollik, Mirabella'08] [Hollik, Mirabella, Trenkel'08] [Beccaria et al.'08] [Mirabella'09] [Germer, Hollik, Mirabella, Trenkel’10]Theoretical StatusHO10, CERN, 01.07.10
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersQCD-EW interference and photon-induced contributions, tree-level EW [Bornhauser
et al.'07][Alan,
Cankocak
, Demir'07] [
Hollik
,
Kollar
, Trenkel'07][Hollik, Mirabella'08] [
Hollik
, Mirabella, Trenkel'08] [
Bozzi
,
Fuks
, Klasen'05] [
Germer
,
Hollik
, Mirabella, Trenkel
’10]
Tree-level EW effects
O(
α
s
α
)
and
O(
α
2
)
Fixed-order corrections to
O
(
α
s
2
)
processesSlide18
NLO SUSY-QCD
corrections →
O
(αs3 ) [Beenakker, Höpker, Spira, Zerwas'96] [Beenakker, Krämer, Plehn, Spira, Zerwas’97For squark-antisquark production: dominant NNLO contributions (NNLL-NNLO, Coulomb, scale dependence) → O(αs4 ) [Langenfeld, Moch'09]EW corrections → O(αs2 α2) [
Hollik, Kollar, Trenkel'07][Hollik, Mirabella'08] [Hollik, Mirabella, Trenkel'08] [Beccaria et al.'08] [Mirabella'09] [Germer, Hollik, Mirabella, Trenkel’10]Theoretical StatusHO10, CERN, 01.07.10
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersQCD-EW interference and photon-induced contributions, tree-level EW [Bornhauser
et al.'07][Alan,
Cankocak
, Demir'07] [
Hollik
,
Kollar
, Trenkel'07][Hollik, Mirabella'08] [
Hollik
, Mirabella, Trenkel'08] [
Bozzi
,
Fuks
, Klasen'05] [
Germer
,
Hollik
, Mirabella, Trenkel
’10]
Tree-level EW effects
O(
α
s
α
)
and
O(
α
2
)
Bound-state effects in
gluino
-pair production
[Hagiwara, Yokoya'09]
,
gluinonia
production and decay
[
Kauth
,
Kühn
,
Marquard
, Steinhauser'09]
Fixed-order corrections to
O
(
α
s
2
)
processesSlide19
LO vs NLO
NLO SUSY QCD
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10
[Beenakker, Höpker, Spira, Zerwas’97]Slide20
LO vs NLO
LO results for total cross sections suffer from enormous scale dependence
NLO SUSY QCD
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10[Beenakker, Höpker, Spira, Zerwas’97]Slide21
LO vs NLO
LO results for total cross sections suffer from enormous scale dependence
NLO SUSY QCD
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10[Beenakker, Hopker, Spira, Zerwas’97]100% correction!Slide22
At Threshold
Large masses of SUSY particles ⇒
production close to thresholdGeneral structure of the NLO
correction in the threshold limit
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10Soft/collinear gluon emission Coulomb gluonsSlide23
At Threshold
Large masses of SUSY particles ⇒
production close to thresholdGeneral structure of the NLO
correction in the threshold limit
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10Soft/collinear gluon emission Coulomb gluonsBoth types of corrections can be resummed to all ordersHere: NLL resummation of soft gluon correctionsSlide24
At Threshold
Large masses of SUSY particles ⇒
production close to thresholdGeneral structure of the NLO
correction in the threshold limit
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10Soft/collinear gluon emission Coulomb gluonsBoth types of corrections can be resummed to all ordersHere: NLL resummation of soft gluon corrections→ LO Coulomb corrections (αs/β)n resummed for and → Boundstate
corrections for [Hagiwara, Yokoya’09][Kulesza, Motyka’09]Resummation of soft and Coulomb corrections together [Beneke, Schwinn, Falgari’09], applied toSlide25
Soft gluon
resummation
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
Systematic reorganization of perturbative series, for threshold logs performed in the space of Mellin momentssums up LL: αsn log n+1 (N) NLL: αsn log n (N) [Sterman’87][Catani, Trentadue’89]withSlide26
Threshold Resummation For Squark And Gluino Production
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A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
2
2 process with nontrivial colour structure and massesmatrices in colour spacefrom solving the renormalization group equationSlide27
Soft anomalous dimensions
Need 1-loop anomalous dimension matrices in order to resum up to NLL
massless 2→n QCD
processes [Kidonakis, Oderda
, Sterman'98] [Bonciani et al.'03][Mert Aybat, Dixon, Sterman'06]massive case: heavy quark pair-production [Kidonakis, Sterman'96][Bonciani et al.'98]Calculation of 1-loop soft anomalous dimension matrices Γij for 2→2 processes with nontrivial colour structure and massive particles in the final stateHO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliderssame colour structure as in top-antitop production ✓Slide28
Resummation for Processes with colour and masses
Threshold limit:
ΓIJ
matrices calculated in the s-channel colour basis become diagonal [
Beneke, Falgari, Schwinn'09]HO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersSlide29
Resummation
for Processes with
colour and masses
Threshold limit: ΓIJ matrices calculated in the
s-channel colour basis become diagonal [Beneke, Falgari, Schwinn'09]In orthogonal basis in colour space for which ΓIJ is diagonal the resummed partonic cross section reads up to NLL [Kidonakis, Sterman'96-97][Bonciani, Catani, Mangano, Nason'98]Full set of D(1) coefficients for squark and gluino production processesD(1) correspond to values of the quadratic Casimir operators for the SU(3) representations for the outgoing state soft gluon radiation only “feels” the total colour charge of the heavy-particle pair produced at thresholdHO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersSlide30
Resummation
-improved NLL+NLO total cross section
NLL
resummed expression has to be matched with the full NLO resultInverse
Mellin transform evaluated using a contour in the complex N space according to 'Minimal Prescription’ [Catani, Mangano, Nason Trentadue'96]NLO cross sections evaluated with publicly available code PROSPINO [Beenakker, Hoepker, Krämer, Plehn, Spira, Zerwas] [http://www.thphys.uni-heildelberg.de/plehn/prospino/]HO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersSlide31
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A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
II. PERTURBATIVE HIGHER ORDER EFFECTS AT WORKSlide32
Gluino-Pair Production @ LHC
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
[AK,Motyka’08] [AK,Motyka’09]
r
=mgluino/msquarkSignificant correction wrt. NLO due to resummation for gluino-pair productionCTEQ6MSlide33
Gluino-Pair Production @ LHC
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
[AK,Motyka’08] [AK,Motyka’09]
r
=mgluino/msquarkSignificant correction wrt. NLO due to resummation for gluino-pair productionReduction of theory error due to scale variation down to ~5% for gluino masses > 1 TeVCTEQ6MSlide34
NLL at LHC
Calculations extended to all four processes of squark and gluino production
m
gluino
=msquarkA. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10[Beenakker, Brensing, Krämer, A.K., Laenen, Niessen’09]Slide35
NLL at LHC
Calculations extended to all four processes of squark and gluino production
m
gluino
=msquarkA. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10[Beenakker, Brensing, Krämer, A.K., Laenen, Niessen’09]Slide36
NLL at LHC
Calculations extended to all four processes of squark and gluino production
m
gluino
=msquarkmgluino=msquarkMost precise predictions for squark and gluino production rates currently availableA. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10[Beenakker, Brensing, Krämer, A.K., Laenen, Niessen’09]Slide37
NLL at Tevatron
NLL resummed results also available for all four processes of squark
and gluino production at the Tevatron
mgluino=msquarkmgluino=msquarkMost precise predictions for squark and gluino production rates currently availableA. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10[Beenakker, Brensing, Krämer, A.K., Laenen, Niessen’09]Slide38
Tevatron mass limits revisited
Reduced theory error due to scale variationShift of the central value and the error band
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
[Beenakker, Brensing, Krämer, A.K., Laenen, Niessen, in preparation]Slide39
Stops
Scalar SUSY-partners of left- and right-handed fermions mix: weak interaction eigenstates mix into mass
eigenstates The off-diagonal terms in the mixing matrix are proportional to
fermion mass, mfStop likely to be the lightest squark
Strongest mixing in the 3rd generation, in particular in the stop sectoraaaA. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10aaSlide40
Stops
Scalar SUSY-partners of left- and right-handed fermions mix: weak interaction
eigenstates
mix into mass eigenstates The off-diagonal terms in the mixing matrix are proportional to fermion mass,
mfStop likely to be the lightest squark At leading orderStrongest mixing in the 3rd generation, in particular in the stop sectorStop-antistopaaaA. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10aaSlide41
Stops
Scalar SUSY-partners of left- and right-handed fermions mix: weak interaction eigenstates mix into mass
eigenstates The off-diagonal terms in the mixing matrix are proportional to
fermion mass, mfStop likely to be the lightest squark
At leading orderStrongest mixing in the 3rd generation, in particular in the stop sectoraaaA. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10aaSquark-antisquarkSlide42
Stops
Scalar SUSY-partners of left- and right-handed fermions mix: weak interaction
eigenstates
mix into mass eigenstates The off-diagonal terms in the mixing matrix are proportional to fermion mass,
mfStop likely to be the lightest squark At leading orderStrongest mixing in the 3rd generation, in particular in the stop sectorStop-antistopaaaA. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10aaOnly diagonal i.e. pairs producedLO cross section depends only on the stop massNote: for sbottom-pair production LO contribution negligible Slide43
Stop Resummation
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
Tevatron
LHC @ 7 TeV[Beenakker, Brensing, Krämer, A.K., Laenen, Niessen’10]Slide44
Stop Resummation
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A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
Tevatron
Reduction of the scale dependence for NLO+NLL predictions, compared with NLO LHC @ 7 TeV[Beenakker, Brensing, Krämer, A.K., Laenen, Niessen’10]Slide45
Stop Resummation
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
Tevatron
Reduction of the scale dependence for NLO+NLL predictions, compared with NLO LHC @ 7 TeV[Beenakker, Brensing, Krämer, A.K., Laenen, Niessen’10]Beware: large pdf uncertaintiesSlide46
Stop pT
distribution
Tevatron
LHC @7
TeVA. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10[Beenakker, Brensing, Krämer, A.K., Laenen, Niessen’10][Beenakker, Höpker, Spira, Zerwas’97]Slide47
Stop pT
distribution
Tevatron
LHC @7
TeVA. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10K-factors for transverse momentum distributions are not constant and depend on pT![Beenakker, Brensing, Krämer, A.K., Laenen, Niessen’10][Beenakker, Höpker, Spira, Zerwas’97]Slide48
Resummation for pT
distributions
Transverse momentum distributions can also contain logarithmic terms which become large in the threshold limit
Same structure of the threshold resummed cross section in the Mellin moment space (moments taken wrt. ) , soft anomalous dimension a function of
pT .HO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersSlide49
Resummation for pT
distributions
Transverse momentum distributions can also contain logarithmic terms which become large in the threshold limit
Same structure of the threshold resummed cross section in the Mellin moment space (moments taken wrt. ) , soft anomalous dimension a function of
pT .HO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersTevatronLHC@ 7 TeV[Beenakker, Brensing, Krämer, A.K., Laenen, Niessen’10]Slide50
Summary
If SUSY realised
in Nature, squarks
and gluinos will
be produced copiously at the LHCHigher order theoretical predictions for production cross sections at the LHC are needed No discovery: derivation of mass limitsDiscovery: SUSY parameter determinationNLL+NLO, i.e. resummed results matched with NLO SUSY-QCD, are the most accurate preditions currently available for all four processes of squark and gluino production, as well as stop-pair productionThe resummed predictions will be used to improve mass limits at the TevatronHO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersSlide51
PDF Uncertainty
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersSlide52
Stop production at NLO
At NLO also only the diagonal pairs are produced, mixed pairs only at O(α
s4)Very weak dependence of the NLO results on SUSY parameter other than stop mass
NLO calculations used by the Tevatron collaboration to establish mass limits
Stop masses in the range 115-200 GeV, depending on the measurement channel and details of the SUSY model, excluded by Tevatron collaborationsA. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10[Beenakker, Krämer, Plehn, Spira, Zerwas’97]Slide53
Soft anomalous dimensions
Need 1-loop anomalous dimension matrices in order to resum up to NLL
massless 2→n QCD
processes [Kidonakis, Oderda
, Sterman'98] [Bonciani et al.'03][Mert Aybat, Dixon, Sterman'06]massive case: heavy quark pair-production [Kidonakis, Sterman'96][Bonciani et al.'98]Calculation of 1-loop soft anomalous dimension matrices Γij for 2→2 processes with nontrivial colour structure and massive particles in the final stateHO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersOne-loop integrals in the eikonal approximation equal masses [Kidonakis, Sterman'96] unequal masses ( ) [Beenakker, Brensing, Krämer, AK, Laenen, Niessen'09]
Combination with colour structures Γij for , , ,Slide54
NLO corrections
Significant NLO SUSY-QCD corrections
(Note: all
squarks (L,R) mass degenerate apart from stops) HO10, CERN, 01.07.10
A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders[Beenakker, Hopker, Spira, Zerwas’97]LHC @ 14 TeVSlide55
At NLL accuracy, soft wide-angle (non-collinear) gluon emission has to be included
Soft non-collinear emission sensitive to the colour structure of the underlying hard scattering processCalculation of 1-loop soft anomalous dimension matrices
ΓJI
for 22 process with nontrivial colour structure and massive particles in the final stateCalculations confirm soft gluon radiation only “feels” the total
colour charge of the heavy particle pair produced at threshold Resummation with colour A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron collidersHO10, CERN, 01.07.10same colour structure as in top-antitop production ✓[AK, Motyka’08-’09][Beenakker, Brensing, Krämer, A.K., Laenen, Niessen’09]Slide56
Soft gluon resummation
HO10, CERN, 01.07.10A. Kulesza, Squark and gluino production at hadron colliders
Systematic reorganization of
perturbative series
NLONNLOαsn log 2n(β2)αsn log 2n-1(β2)