Differential single jet inclusive production at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Abstract

In this talk we present the recent calculation in all partonic channels of the fully differential single jet inclusive cross section at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD. We discuss the size and shape of the perturbative corrections as a function of the functional form of the renormalisation and factorisation scales and compare the predictions at NLO and NNLO to the available ATLAS 7 TeV data. We find significant effects at low-$p_T$ due to changes in the functional form of the scale choice whereas at high-$p_T$ the two most common scale choices in the literature give identical results and the perturbative corrections lead to a substantial reduction in the scale dependence of the theoretical prediction at NNLO.

Talk presented at the 52nd Rencontres de Moriond QCD and High Energy Interactions, La Thuile 25th March-01 April, 2017. 2 figures, 4 pages