Antenna subtraction at NNLO with hadronic initial states: double real initial-initial configurations

Abstract

The antenna subtraction method handles real radiation contributions in higher order corrections to jet observables. The method is based on antenna functions, which encapsulate all unresolved radiation between a pair of hard radiator partons. To apply this method to compute hadron collider observables, initial-initial antenna functions with both radiators in the initial state are required in unintegrated and integrated forms. In view of extending the antenna subtraction method to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculations at hadron colliders, we derive the full set of initial-initial double real radiation antenna functions in integrated form.

38 pages; a FORM file with the integrated antennae is included with this submission. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1011.6631, arXiv:1107.4037