Four-fermion production near the W-pair production threshold. Giulia Zanderighi, Theory Division, CERN ILC Physics in Florence September

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1 Four-fermion production near the W-pair production threshold Giulia Zanderighi, Theory Division, CERN ILC Physics in Florence September

2 International Linear Collider we all believe that no matter what will be discovered (or not) at the LHC, the ILC will provide complementary information Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 2/22

3 International Linear Collider we all believe that no matter what will be discovered (or not) at the LHC, the ILC will provide complementary information given the high energy involved, the ILC can be a discovery machine, but thanks to the very clean e+e- environment the ILC will be mainly a precision machine Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 2/22

4 International Linear Collider we all believe that no matter what will be discovered (or not) at the LHC, the ILC will provide complementary information given the high energy involved, the ILC can be a discovery machine, but thanks to the very clean e+e- environment the ILC will be mainly a precision machine From the high precision of the ILC we expect to identify the nature of new physics (discovered at the LHC?) by doing direct and indirect measurements of particle properties constrain new physics and model parameters (e.g. heavy masses, couplings) Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 2/22

5 Precision measurements at the ILC Higgs: mass, branching ratios, width, CP, spin, couplings, [specifically top-yukawa, Higgs self-coupling] Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 3/22

6 Precision measurements at the ILC Higgs: mass, branching ratios, width, CP, spin, couplings, [specifically top-yukawa, Higgs self-coupling] anomalous couplings electroweak parameters M Z, Γ Z, M W, Γ W, m t, Γ t, sin 2 θ W,eff, R b, R c, R l, σ had (e.g. ) QCD coupling and evolution (new color degrees of freedom?) If (SUSY) plethora of SUSY masses and parameters If (ED) measure M, δ, KK-powers If (XXX) measure YYY 0 Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 3/22

7 Precision measurements at the ILC This talk M W Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 3/22

8 W mass M W is a key observable in the search of virtual-particle exchange through electroweak precision measurements can constrain measuring m t M H by precisely and M W t M W m 2 t H M W ln M H m W [GeV] High Q 2 except m W /Γ W 68% CL Excluded [LEPEWWG] m W (LEP2 prel., pp ) m H [GeV] m W [GeV] LEP1 and SLD LEP2 and Tevatron (prel.) 68% CL [LEPEWWG] M W [GeV] 80.3 α m H [GeV] m t [GeV] experimental errors 68% CL: M H = 114 GeV SM LEP2/Tevatron (today) Tevatron/LHC ILC/GigaZ M H = 400 GeV m~ t2,b2 [hep-ph/ ] ~ / m t1 ~ > 2.5 ~,b1 light SUSY MSSM heavy SUSY SM MSSM both models Heinemeyer, Hollik, Stöckinger, Weber, Weiglein m t [GeV] Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 4/22

9 W mass determination current value: M W = ( ) GeV determined from combination of continuum W-pair production at LEPII and single-w at the Tevatron ± Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 5/22

10 W mass determination current value: M W = ( ) GeV determined from combination of continuum W-pair production at LEPII and single-w at the Tevatron ± single-w production at the LHC: expected to reduce the error by a factor 2 Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 5/22

11 W mass determination current value: M W = ( ) GeV determined from combination of continuum W-pair production at LEPII and single-w at the Tevatron single-w production at the LHC: expected to reduce the error by a factor 2 two techniques at the ILC: - kinematic fitting of WW production at s = 500 GeV reach 5 MeV error with L = 1000fb 1 (several years) - threshold scan: exploit rapid variation of σ at threshold error of 5 MeV with L = 100fb 1 (just one year) ± Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 5/22

12 Some history of WW (before 05) NB: this is not a complete list of references Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 6/22

13 Some history of WW (before 05) lowest order amplitudes for an onshell W-pair [Alles et al. 77, Gaemers&Gounaris. 79] NB: this is not a complete list of references Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 6/22

14 Some history of WW (before 05) lowest order amplitudes for an onshell W-pair [Alles et al. 77, Gaemers&Gounaris. 79] electroweak correction to onshell W-pair [Lemione&Veltman 80, Philippe 82, Fleischer et al. 89, Boehm 88] NB: this is not a complete list of references Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 6/22

15 Some history of WW (before 05) lowest order amplitudes for an onshell W-pair [Alles et al. 77, Gaemers&Gounaris. 79] electroweak correction to onshell W-pair [Lemione&Veltman 80, Philippe 82, Fleischer et al. 89, Boehm 88] electroweak correction to onshell W decay [Bardeen et al. 86, Jegerlehner 88, Denner&Sack et al. 90] NB: this is not a complete list of references Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 6/22

16 Some history of WW (before 05) lowest order amplitudes for an onshell W-pair [Alles et al. 77, Gaemers&Gounaris. 79] electroweak correction to onshell W-pair [Lemione&Veltman 80, Philippe 82, Fleischer et al. 89, Boehm 88] electroweak correction to onshell W decay [Bardeen et al. 86, Jegerlehner 88, Denner&Sack et al. 90] inclusion of hard photon radiation [Beenakker et al. 91, Tanaka et al. 91, Kolodziej et al. 91, Feischer et al. 93] NB: this is not a complete list of references Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 6/22

17 Some history of WW (before 05) lowest order amplitudes for an onshell W-pair electroweak correction to onshell W-pair [Lemione&Veltman 80, Philippe 82, Fleischer et al. 89, Boehm 88] electroweak correction to onshell W decay [Bardeen et al. 86, Jegerlehner 88, Denner&Sack et al. 90] inclusion of hard photon radiation Frontier of higher order [Alles et al. 77, Gaemers&Gounaris. 79] [Beenakker et al. 91, Tanaka et al. 91, Kolodziej et al. 91, Feischer et al. 93] calculations at the time NB: this is not a complete list of references Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 6/22

18 Some history of WW (before 05) lowest order amplitudes for an onshell W-pair electroweak correction to onshell W-pair [Lemione&Veltman 80, Philippe 82, Fleischer et al. 89, Boehm 88] electroweak correction to onshell W decay [Bardeen et al. 86, Jegerlehner 88, Denner&Sack et al. 90] inclusion of hard photon radiation Frontier of higher order [Beenakker et al. 91, Tanaka et al. 91, Kolodziej et al. 91, Feischer et al. 93] calculations at the time [Alles et al. 77, Gaemers&Gounaris. 79] improved Born approximation: include universal corrections (running coupling, ISR, Coulomb singularities) [Dittmaier et al. 93, Kuroda et al. 97] NB: this is not a complete list of references Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 6/22

19 Some history of WW (before 05) lowest order amplitudes for an onshell W-pair electroweak correction to onshell W-pair [Lemione&Veltman 80, Philippe 82, Fleischer et al. 89, Boehm 88] electroweak correction to onshell W decay [Bardeen et al. 86, Jegerlehner 88, Denner&Sack et al. 90] inclusion of hard photon radiation Frontier of higher order [Beenakker et al. 91, Tanaka et al. 91, Kolodziej et al. 91, Feischer et al. 93] calculations at the time [Alles et al. 77, Gaemers&Gounaris. 79] improved Born approximation: include universal corrections (running coupling, ISR, Coulomb singularities) [Dittmaier et al. 93, Kuroda et al. 97] various DPA approximations: leading term around the poles of the W propagators [Beenakker et al. 98, Jadach et al. 01. Denner et al. 99, Kurihara et al. 01] NB: this is not a complete list of references Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 6/22

20 Some history of WW (before 05) lowest order amplitudes for an onshell W-pair electroweak correction to onshell W-pair [Lemione&Veltman 80, Philippe 82, Fleischer et al. 89, Boehm 88] electroweak correction to onshell W decay [Bardeen et al. 86, Jegerlehner 88, Denner&Sack et al. 90] inclusion of hard photon radiation Frontier of higher order [Beenakker et al. 91, Tanaka et al. 91, Kolodziej et al. 91, Feischer et al. 93] calculations at the time improved Born approximation: include universal corrections (running coupling, ISR, Coulomb singularities) [Dittmaier et al. 93, Kuroda et al. 97] various DPA approximations: leading term around the poles of the W propagators [Beenakker et al. 98, Jadach et al. 01. Denner et al. 99, Kurihara et al. 01] Monte-Carlo generators: DPA+universal corrections NB: this is not a complete list of references [Alles et al. 77, Gaemers&Gounaris. 79] [e.g. YFSWW 00, RacoonWW 99] Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 6/22

21 Beyond accuracy of DPA in the continuum is α Γ W 0.5% π M W 1 DPA breaks down near threshold (error enhanced by ) s 2MW Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 7/22

22 Beyond accuracy of DPA in the continuum is α Γ W 0.5% π M W 1 DPA breaks down near threshold (error enhanced by ) s 2MW improved accuracy of LC requires to go beyond Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 7/22

23 Beyond accuracy of DPA in the continuum is α Γ W 0.5% π M W 1 DPA breaks down near threshold (error enhanced by ) s 2MW improved accuracy of LC requires to go beyond want a systematic way to go beyond the DPA want treatment which does not break down at threshold Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 7/22

24 Beyond accuracy of DPA in the continuum is α Γ W 0.5% π M W 1 DPA breaks down near threshold (error enhanced by ) s 2MW want a systematic way to go beyond the DPA want treatment which does not break down at threshold Two approaches: full improved accuracy of LC requires to go beyond O(α)e + e 4 f calculation in the complex-mass scheme [Denner et. al 05] construct an effective theory designed to exploit the hierarchy between the physical scales (M,,v) [Beneke et. al 07] Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 7/22

25 The ee4f calculation Essential ingredients: [Denner et. al 05] (1) extension of the complex mass scheme to one-loop - split bare mass into complex renormalized mass ( resummed) and complex counterterms ( not resummed) in the Lagrangian - use complex masses everywhere (e.g. in cos 2 θ W ) ( spurious terms) - unitarity violations, but only at the next order in PT Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 8/22

26 The ee4f calculation Essential ingredients: [Denner et. al 05] (1) extension of the complex mass scheme to one-loop - split bare mass into complex renormalized mass ( resummed) and complex counterterms ( not resummed) in the Lagrangian - use complex masses everywhere (e.g. in cos 2 θ W ) ( spurious terms) - unitarity violations, but only at the next order in PT (2) three external fermion pairs non-trivial spinor structure - algorithm to reduce O(10 3 ) spinor chains to only O(10) independent spinor structures Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 8/22

27 The ee4f calculation Essential ingredients: [Denner et. al 05] (3) develop new numerical techniques to compute oneloop six-point tensor integrals with complex masses in the loop - based on numerical Passarino-Veltman reduction - need rescue systems do deal with vanishing inverse Gram determinants - general techniques can be used for other processes [e.g. used for H 4f and pp ttj] - one-loop multi-particle processes very important both for LHC&ILC Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 9/22

28 Input parameters use G µ -scheme for the coupling: α Gµ = 2G µ MW 2 (1 MW 2 /MZ)/π 2 use α(0) in radiative corrections QCD effects included naively multiplying cross-sections by ( 1 + α s /π) per hadronically decaying W Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 10/22

29 Sample ee4f results [Denner et. al 05] DPA not sufficient at LC: DPA larger then ee4f for invariant masses >. This would give a shift in the direct reconstruction of! M W M W Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 11/22

30 Sample ee4f results [Denner et. al 05] DPA not sufficient at LC: distortions above 500GeV could be misinterpret as signal for anomalous triple-gauge couplings Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 12/22

31 Effective theory calculation Γ W /M W α ew α 2 s v 2 [Beneke, Falgari, Schwinn, Signer, GZ 07] Exploit the hierarchy between the physical scales at threshold collectively called δ for power-counting Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 13/22

32 Effective theory calculation Exploit the hierarchy between the physical scales at threshold Split physical modes into Γ W /M W α ew α 2 s v 2 [Beneke, Falgari, Schwinn, Signer, GZ 07] collectively called δ for power-counting - hard: k 0 M W, k M W - soft: k 0 M W δ, k M W δ } - collinear: k ± M W, k M W δ, k M W δ k 0 M W δ, - potential: k M W δ integrated out (matching coefs.) dynamical modes (effective operators) Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 13/22

33 Effective theory calculation Exploit the hierarchy between the physical scales at threshold Split physical modes into Γ W /M W α ew α 2 s v 2 [Beneke, Falgari, Schwinn, Signer, GZ 07] collectively called δ for power-counting - hard: k 0 M W, k M W - soft: k 0 M W δ, k M W δ } - collinear: k ± M W, k M W δ, k M W δ k 0 M W δ, - potential: k M W δ integrated out (matching coefs.) dynamical modes (effective operators) NLO means O(δ) : O(Γ W /M W ) O(α ew ) O(α 2 s) O(v 2 ) [similar technique for top-pair production, Hoang et al. 04, Hoang et al. 07] Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 13/22

34 Effective theory calculation Practically: compute inclusive cross-section via the imaginary part of the forward scattering amplitude split loop-integrals using the strategy of regions, i.e. expand integrands before doing the integration power-counting available, e.g. soft: Ω k 0 M W δ, k M W δ potential: k 0 M W δ, k M W δ d 4 k δ 4 M 4 W d 4 k δ 5/2 M 4 W 1 2M W (k 0 k 2 /2) 1 MW 2 δ At LO: = iγ (0) Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 14/22

35 Examples Born Ω αew 2 }{{} d 4 k δ 5/2 αewδ 2 1/2 1 (MW 2 δ) 2 LO Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 15/22

36 Examples Born Ω αew 2 }{{} d 4 k δ 5/2 αewδ 2 1/2 1 (MW 2 δ) 2 LO Soft photon correction γ s αewα 2 }{{} d 4 k δ 5/2 αewαδ 2 1/2 d 4 k γs }{{} δ (MW 2 δ) 4 MW 2 δ 2 NLO Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 15/22

37 Examples Born Ω αew 2 }{{} d 4 k δ 5/2 αewδ 2 1/2 1 (MW 2 δ) 2 LO Soft photon correction γ s αewα 2 }{{} d 4 k δ 5/2 αewαδ 2 1/2 d 4 k γs }{{} δ (MW 2 δ) 4 MW 2 δ 2 NLO Single Coulomb exchange γ p αewα 2 d 4 }{{} k d 4 k γp }{{} δ 5/2 δ 5/2 αewα (MW 2 δ) 4 MW 2 δ N 1/2 LO Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 15/22

38 Examples Born Ω αew 2 }{{} d 4 k δ 5/2 αewδ 2 1/2 1 (MW 2 δ) 2 LO Soft photon correction γ s αewα 2 }{{} d 4 k δ 5/2 αewαδ 2 1/2 d 4 k γs }{{} δ (MW 2 δ) 4 MW 2 δ 2 NLO Single Coulomb exchange γ p αewα 2 d 4 }{{} k d 4 k γp }{{} δ 5/2 δ 5/2 αewα 2 Side remarks: 1) at NLO need double Coulomb exchange, not included in ee4f 2) no resummation of Coulomb photon necessary (unlike top) 1 1 (MW 2 δ) 4 MW 2 δ N 1/2 LO Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 15/22

39 Results σ(e + e ) µ ν µ u d + X [fb] s [GeV] Born Born+ISR NLO (6) (2) (4) [-29.6%] 378.4(2) [-17.4%] (5) [-22.5%] 398.0(2) [-17.4%] ISR results in large negative correction ( -30%) genuine NLO amounts to an additional +8% effect, much large than target accuracy of sub-percent level Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 16/22

40 Comparison between ee4f and EFT in theory full O(α)e + e 4 technically challenging calculation [Denner et. al 05] [involves one-loop hexagons to with complex masses in the loop] flexible treatment of final state valid in all phase space (no matching needed) effective theory approach currently inclusive cross-section only f calculation in the complex-mass scheme technically simpler, compact analytical formulae [most complicated loop calculation are onshell boxes] formalism can be extended to higher orders [Beneke et. al 07] Also: proof of principle of the effective theory method to treat unstable particles [Beneke et. al 03-04] Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 17/22

41 Comparison between ee4f and EFT in practice Using same input, handling ambiguities in the same way and removing double Coulomb exchange from EFT one gets: σ(e + e ) µ ν µ u d + X [fb] s [GeV] Born+ISR DPA NLO [EFT] NLO [ee4f] (4) (7) (4) (8) (2) 402.1(2) 399.9(2) 401.8(2) agreement between EFT and ee4f up to 0.6% at threshold Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 18/22

42 ISR & uncertainty NLO results presented before based on σ NLO v1 1 0 dx dx 2Γ LL ee (x 1 )Γ LL ee (x 2 ) ( σ (0) (x 1 x 2 s) + σ (1) (x 1 x 2 s) ) Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 19/22

43 ISR & uncertainty NLO results presented before based on σ NLO v1 1 0 dx dx 2Γ LL ee (x 1 )Γ LL ee (x 2 ) ( σ (0) (x 1 x 2 s) + σ (1) (x 1 x 2 s) ) since Γ LL ee (x) = δ(1 x) + Γee LL,(1) one could as well do σ NLO v2 1 0 dx dx 2Γ LL ee (x 1 )Γ LL ee (x 2 )σ (0) (x 1 x 2 s) + σ (1) (s) Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 19/22

44 ISR & uncertainty NLO results presented before based on σ NLO v1 1 0 dx dx 2Γ LL ee (x 1 )Γ LL ee (x 2 ) ( σ (0) (x 1 x 2 s) + σ (1) (x 1 x 2 s) ) since Γ LL ee (x) = δ(1 x) + Γee LL,(1) one could as well do σ NLO v2 1 0 dx 1 s 1 0 dx 2Γ LL ee (x 1 )Γ LL ee (x 2 )σ (0) (x 1 x 2 s) + σ (1) (s) [GeV] 161 NLO (v1) [fb] (5) NLO (v2) [fb] (5) (v1-v2)/v1-1.9% σ NLO v } M W GeV 30 MeV effect for M W Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 19/22

45 Uncertainty study Define: O i NLO[EFT] with M W = GeV at s = 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 170GeV Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 20/22

46 Uncertainty study Define: O i NLO[EFT] with M W = GeV at s = 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 170GeV E i (δm W ) other TH calculation with M W = GeV + δ(m W ) Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 20/22

47 Uncertainty study Define: O i NLO[EFT] with M W = GeV at s = 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 170GeV E i (δm W ) other TH calculation with M W = GeV + δ(m W ) χ 2 (δm W ) 6 1 (O i E i (δm W )) 2 2σ 2 i (assume e.g.flat weights σ i = σ ) Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 20/22

48 Uncertainty study Define: O i NLO[EFT] with M W = GeV at s = 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 170GeV E i (δm W ) other TH calculation with M W = GeV + δ(m W ) χ 2 (δm W ) 6 1 (O i E i (δm W )) 2 2σ 2 i (assume e.g.flat weights σ i = σ ) δm W at which χ 2 is minimum gives the best estimate of the difference between true and measured mass due to missing higher orders Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 20/22

49 Uncertainty study Κ σ(s, M W + δm W ) σ(s, M W ) MeV 30 MeV 15 MeV ISR single Coulomb + soft or hard photon MeV 30 MeV 45 MeV s GeV single Coulomb + soft or hard photon + non-resonant (N 3/2 LO) Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 21/22

50 Uncertainty study Κ σ(s, M W + δm W ) σ(s, M W ) MeV 30 MeV 15 MeV ISR single Coulomb + soft or hard photon MeV 30 MeV 45 MeV s GeV single Coulomb + soft or hard photon + non-resonant (N 3/2 LO) main uncertainties δm W remedy? ISR-treatment 31MeV NLL ISR resummation choice of 15 MeV make best choice non-resonant 8 MeV already in ee4f single Coulomb + soft or hard photon -5 MeV not needed Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 21/22

51 Conclusions M W measurement at ILC with an error 6 MeV needs σ at threshold to an accuracy of 0.6% Two independent NLO calculations of full EW e + e 4f in the complex mass scheme effective theory calculation results agree up to 0.6% at threshold However large ( 2%) ambiguities from ISR treatment resummation of NLO collinear logs mandatory to reduce error below 30 MeV Giulia Zanderighi Four fermion production near the W-pair production threshold 22/22