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Electroweak Sudakov Logarithms and Real Gauge-Boson Radiation in the TeV Region

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-12-15 v1

Abstract

Electroweak radiative corrections give rise to large negative, double-logarithmically enhanced corrections in the TeV region. These are partly compensated by real radiation and, moreover, affected by selecting isospin-noninvariant external states. We investigate the impact of real gauge boson radiation more quantitatively by considering different restricted final state configurations. We consider successively a massive abelian gauge theory, a spontaneously broken SU(2) theory and the electroweak Standard Model. We find that details of the choice of the phase space cuts, in particular whether a fraction of collinear and soft radiation is included, have a strong impact on the relative amount of real and virtual corrections.

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@article{arxiv.1004.4117,
  title  = {Electroweak Sudakov Logarithms and Real Gauge-Boson Radiation in the TeV Region},
  author = {G. Bell and J. H. Kuhn and J. Rittinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.4117},
  year   = {2010}
}

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20 pages, 4 figures