An Effective Field Theory for Jet Processes
Matthias Neubert (Mainz University)

Processes involving narrow jets receive perturbative corrections enhanced by logarithms of the jet opening angle and the ratio of the energies inside and outside the jets. Analyzing cone-jet processes in effective field theory, we find that in addition to soft and collinear fields their description requires momentum modes which are simultaneously soft and collinear to the jets. These collinear-soft particles can resolve individual collinear partons, leading to a complicated multi-Wilson-line structure of the associated operators at higher orders. Our effective field theory fully separates the physics at different energy scales. Solving its renormalization-group equations resums all logarithmically enhanced higher-order terms in cone-jet processes, in particular also the non-global logarithms.