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Infrared Divergences from Soft and Collinear Gauge Bosons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

I review the Lee-Nauenberg thereom and discuss its inclusion of photons which are disconnected at the level of the S-matrix but connected at the level of the cross-section when there are initial and final state charged particles. I then expose a new set of soft collinear divergences in massless gauge theories which are omitted in the standard Lee-Nauenberg approach. It seems that highly questionable assumptions are needed to obtain finite cross-sections.

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@article{arxiv.0709.3935,
  title  = {Infrared Divergences from Soft and Collinear Gauge Bosons},
  author = {Paul Jameson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.3935},
  year   = {2008}
}

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6 pages, 6 .jpg figures. Talk given at the Ninth Workshop on Non-Perturbative QCD, Paris, June 2007