Tagging the initial-state gluon

• Main Authors: Simone Caletti, Oleh Fedkevych, Simone Marzani, Daniel Reichelt
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2021-09-01
• Series: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09648-x

Abstract We study the production of an electroweak boson in association with jets, in processes where the jet with the highest transverse momentum is identified as quark-initiated. The quark/gluon tagging procedure is realised by a cut on a jet angularity and it is therefore theoretically well-defined and exhibits infrared and collinear safety. In this context, exploiting resummed perturbation theory, we are able to provide theoretical predictions for transverse momentum distributions at a well-defined and, in principle, systematically improvable accuracy. In particular, tagging the leading jet as quark-initiated allows us to enhance the initial-state gluon contribution. Thus these novel transverse momentum distributions are potentially interesting observables to probe the gluonic degrees of freedom of the colliding protons.