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Independently Parameterised Momenta Variables and Monte Carlo IR Subtraction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-12-19 v2

Abstract

We introduce a system of parameters for the Monte Carlo generation of Lorentz invariant phase space that is particularly well-suited to the treatment of the infrared divergences that occur in the most singular, Born-like configurations of 1n1\to n QCD processes. A key feature is that particle momenta are generated independently of one another, leading to a simple parameterisation of all such IR limits. We exemplify the use of these variables in conjunction with the projection to Born subtraction technique at next-to-next-to-leading order. The geometric origins of this parameterisation lie in a coordinate chart on a Grassmannian manifold.

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@article{arxiv.1809.09325,
  title  = {Independently Parameterised Momenta Variables and Monte Carlo IR Subtraction},
  author = {Peter Cox and Tom Melia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.09325},
  year   = {2018}
}

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16 pages; v2: version published in JHEP

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