We investigate the impact of soft gluon resummation on the azimuthal angle correlation between the total and relative momenta of two energetic final-state particles (jets). We show that the initial and final-state radiations induce sizable $\cos (\varphi )$ and $\cos (2\varphi )$ asymmetries in single jet and dijet events, respectively. We numerically evaluate the magnitude of these asymmetries for a number of processes in collider experiments, including diffractive dijet and dilepton production in ultraperipheral $pA$ and $AA$ collisions, inclusive and diffractive dijet production at the electron-ion collider, and inclusive dijet production in $pp$ collisions at the LHC. In particular, the $\cos (2\varphi )$ asymmetry of perturbative origin can dominate over the primordial asymmetry due to the linearly polarized gluon distribution.

• Received 21 June 2021
• Accepted 8 September 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.054037

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