Electroweak Logarithms in Inclusive Cross Sections

Understand

We develop the framework to perform all-orders resummation of electroweak logarithms of Q/M for inclusive scattering processes at energies Q much above the electroweak scale M.

• We calculate all ingredients needed at next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) order and provide an explicit recipe to implement this for 2 $\to$ 2 processes.
• PDF evolution including electroweak corrections, which lead to Sudakov double logarithms, is computed.
• If only the invariant mass of the final state is measured, all electroweak logarithms can be resummed by the PDF evolution, at least to LL.