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Factorization restoration through Glauber gluons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-08-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We analyze the low-energy dynamics of gap-between-jets cross sections at hadron colliders, for which phase factors in the hard amplitudes spoil collinear cancellations and lead to double (``super-leading'') logarithmic behavior. Based on a method-of-regions analysis, we identify three-loop contributions from perturbative active-active Glauber-gluon exchanges with the right structure to render the cross section consistent with PDF factorization below the gap veto scale. The Glauber contributions we identify are unambiguously defined without regulators beyond dimensional regularization.

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@article{arxiv.2408.10308,
  title  = {Factorization restoration through Glauber gluons},
  author = {Thomas Becher and Patrick Hager and Sebastian Jaskiewicz and Matthias Neubert and Dominik Schwienbacher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10308},
  year   = {2024}
}

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7 pages, 3 figures

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