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Gluon cascades and amplitudes in light-front perturbation theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-12 v1

Abstract

We construct the gluon wave functions, fragmentation functions and scattering amplitudes within the light-front perturbation theory. Recursion relations on the light-front are constructed for the wave functions and fragmentation functions, which in the latter case are the light-front analogs of the Berends-Giele recursion relations. Using general relations between wave functions and scattering amplitudes it is demonstrated how to obtain the maximally-helicity violating amplitudes, and explicit verification of the results is based on simple examples.

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@article{arxiv.1301.3075,
  title  = {Gluon cascades and amplitudes in light-front perturbation theory},
  author = {C. A. Cruz-Santiago and A. M. Stasto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.3075},
  year   = {2015}
}

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25 pages, 15 figures