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Color-Kinematics Duality for Sudakov Form Factor in Non-Supersymmetric Pure Yang-Mills Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-07-13 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the duality between color and kinematics for the Sudakov form factors of tr(F2){\rm tr}(F^2) in non-supersymmetric pure Yang-Mills theory. We construct the integrands that manifest the color-kinematics duality up to two loops. The resulting numerators are given in terms of Lorentz products of momenta and polarization vectors, which have the same powers of loop momenta as that from the Feynman rules. The integrands are checked by dd-dimensional unitarity cuts and are valid in any dimension. We find that massless-bubble and tadpole topologies are needed at two loops to realize the color-kinematics duality. Interestingly, the two-loop solution contains a large number of free parameters suggesting the duality may hold at higher loop orders.

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@article{arxiv.2204.09407,
  title  = {Color-Kinematics Duality for Sudakov Form Factor in Non-Supersymmetric Pure Yang-Mills Theory},
  author = {Zeyu Li and Gang Yang and Jinxuan Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.09407},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

v3: 37 pages, 20 figures; ancillary files corrected