That is, for ∆R < R the two emissions are clustered into a jet and T
fj
is computed from
the sum p
j
= k
1
+ k
2
. For ∆R > R, each emissions forms its own jet and T
f1
and T
f2
are
computed with p
j
= k
1
and p
j
= k
2
, respectively.
The measurement function M
jet
f
(T
cut
) is inserted into the usual SCET operator matrix
elements defining the beam and soft functions. In this case, the jets J(R) are obtained
purely from the collinear or soft radiation within each sector. For details we refer to
refs. [1, 3]. The practical implementation of such a measurement in beam and soft function
calculations is discussed below.
The factorization of the cross section with a T
Bj
or T
Cj
veto in refs. [1, 3] is strictly
speaking valid only to lowest order in an expansion in R. The possibility of clustering inde-
pendent soft and collinear emissions into the same jet breaks the soft-collinear factorization
of the measurement function with the corresponding corrections starting at O(R
2
) [1]. Since
this only affects the measurement itself but not the soft-collinear factorization of the ampli-
tudes and SCET Lagrangian, these soft-collinear clustering corrections can be computed in
the effective theory and are included in our results. We separate out the corresponding con-
tributions in the two-loop beam and soft functions that are associated with the clustering
of independent emissions. They are denoted with the subscript ‘indep’ and together with
the corrections from soft-collinear clustering reproduce the two-loop clustering behaviour
of independent emissions in full QCD (in the singular limit). In section 3, we give two
prescriptions as to how this collection of terms can be treated in the NNLL
0
resummation.
In addition, at O(R
2
) (potentially) factorization breaking effects due to Glauber inter-
actions can play a role [28]. At the perturbative level, they first appear in a nonlogarithmic
O(α
4
s
) diagram, implying that the factorization breaking effects first appear at the N
4
LL
order [29, 30]. They will not be discussed further here.
Our calculation of the beam and soft functions is organized in an expansion in R as well.
We will give terms in this expansion up to orders high enough for all practical purposes.
This expansion only involves even powers of R (up to few exceptional terms at lower orders).
We find the R
2
expansion to converge very quickly, suggesting that the relevant expansion
parameter is (R/R
0
)
2
with R
0
' 2. (Similar observations have been made recently also in
other contexts involving small-R expansions, see e.g. [31, 32].) As pointed out in ref. [1], in
the small-R limit one should also consider resumming the corresponding logarithms ln R
appearing in the jet-vetoed cross section. The dominant contribution beyond O(α
2
s
) was
obtained in ref. [33]. Their resummation at the LL was obtained in refs. [26, 34], and very
recently methods have been developed [35, 36] that could allow one to systematically carry
out their resummation to higher orders.
To perform the computation of the jet-algorithm dependent soft and beam functions we
follow the same strategy used in refs. [1, 15, 19] by computing the difference to a reference
soft or beam function defined with a global (jet-algorithm independent) measurement, with
the reference functions having been computed elsewhere in the literature. A key property of
the global reference measurements we use is that they coincide with the jet-dependent mea-
surements for the case of one real emission. Then when we compute the differences, we only
need to consider the double-real emission amplitudes. Since the measurement functions are
different for T
Bj
and T
Cj
, we must perform a separate computation of the soft function for
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