HET Seminar

"Dissecting hadronisation corrections for collider physics"

Presented by Silvia Ferrario Ravasio, Oxford

Thursday, January 26, 2023, 11:00 am — Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Abstract:

The outstanding progress in perturbative calculations enabled us to
augment our knowledge of the interactions among elementary particles,
the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Non-perturbative
corrections usually manifest themselves as power corrections inversely
proportional to the center-of-mass energy. In this talk I will discuss how
to infer the presence of linear-power corrections, which can give percent
level contributions at scales of the order 100 GeV, and significantly limit
the ultimate precision of our theoretical predictions. In particular, I will focus
on observables used to infer the top-quark mass and the transverse momentum
of gauge bosons, where the targeted theoretical uncertainty is 1% or lower.
I will then present a new method to estimate hadronisation corrections for
event shapes, which can be used to measure the QCD coupling constant.

Hosted by: Peter Denton

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