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NUCLEAR PHYSICS B
Volume 890, Issue -, Pages 152-227Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.11.006
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- German Research Foundation (DFG) [Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio SFB/TR-9]
- DFG Heisenberg programme
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Four years ago, one of us introduced a novel subtraction scheme [1] for the evaluation of double-real radiation contributions to cross sections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD. This approach, named SecToR Improved Phase sPacE for Real radiation (STRIPPER), has already found several nontrivial applications. In particular, it has allowed for the determination of NNLO corrections to hadronic top-quark pair production, fully differential top-quark decays, inclusive semileptonic charmless b-quark decays, associated Higgs boson and jet production in gluon fusion, muon decay spin asymmetry, and t-channel single-top production. Common to these calculations was the use of conventional dimensional regularization (CDR). In this publication, we present a complete formulation of the subtraction scheme for arbitrary processes with any number of colored partons in the final state, and up to two partons in the initial state. Furthermore, we modify the integrated subtraction terms of the double-real radiation to enable the introduction of the 't Hooft-Veltman version of dimensional regularization (HV), in which resolved states are four-dimensional. We demonstrate the correctness of our approach on the example of top-quark pair production in the gluon fusion channel. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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