Integrated subtraction terms and finite remainders for arbitrary processes with massless partons at colliders in the nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme
A bstract We present integrated subtraction terms and finite remainders for arbitrary processes with massless partons at hadron and lepton colliders in the context of the nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme. These results provide the very last ingredients needed to make this scheme a fully local, analytic and process-independent framework for treating infrared singularities at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. The explicit infrared finiteness of all required contributions, as well as their process-independence, puts these results on par with subtraction schemes developed for next-to-leading order computations and opens up a clear path towards the automation of next-to-next-to-leading order computations in QCD.
Authors
- Federica Devoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6397-920X)
- D Tagliabue (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9210-7954)
- Kirill Melnikov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2067-3889)
- Chiara Signorile-Signorile
- Matteo Tresoldi
- Raoul Röntsch
Institutions
- Max Planck Institute for Physics (DE)
- Kentucky imaging Technologies (United States) (US)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano (IT)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2026-01-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep01(2026)137
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 55.92
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- CERN
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara