Rapidity-dependent jet vetoes

Jet vetoes are a prominent part of the signal selection in various analyses at the LHC. We discuss jet vetoes for which the transverse momentum of a jet is weighted by a smooth function of the jet rapidity. With a suitable choice of the rapidity-weighting function, such jet-veto variables can be factorized and resummed allowing for precise theory predictions. They thus provide a complementary way to divide phase space into exclusive jet bins. In particular, they provide a natural and theoretically clean way to implement a tight veto on central jets with the veto constraint getting looser for jets at increasingly forward rapidities. We mainly focus our discussion on the 0-jet case in color-singlet processes, using Higgs production through gluon fusion as a concrete example. For one of our jet-veto variables we compare the resummed theory prediction at ${\mathrm{NLL}}^{\ensuremath{'}}+\mathrm{N}\mathrm{L}\mathrm{O}$ order with the recent differential cross-section measurement by the ATLAS experiment in the $H\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\gamma}$ channel, finding good agreement. We also propose that these jet-veto variables can be measured and tested against theory predictions in other Standard Model processes, such as Drell-Yan, diphoton, and weak diboson production.

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