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Angularities are event shapes whose sensitivity to the splitting angle of a collinear emission is controlled by a continuous parameter b, with −1 < b < ∞. When measured with respect to the thrust axis, this class of QCD observables includes thrust (b = 1) and jet broadening (b = 0), the former being insensitive to the recoil of soft against collinear radiation, while the latter being maximally sensitive to it. Presently available analytic results for angularity distributions with b ≠ 0 can be applied only close to the thrust limit since recoil effects have so far been neglected. As a first step to establish a comprehensive theoretical framework based on Soft-Collinear Effective Theory valid for all recoil-sensitive angularities, we compute for the first time angularity distributions at one-loop order in αs for all values of b taking into account recoil effects. In the differential cross section, these amount to novel sub-leading singular contributions and/or power corrections, where the former are characterized by fractional powers of the angularity and contribute appreciably close to the peak region, also for b ≳ 0.5. Our calculations are checked against various limits known in the literature and agree with the numerical output of the Event2 generator.
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Budhraja, A., Jain, A. & Procura, M. One-loop angularity distributions with recoil using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 144 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2019)144
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