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Ordering multiple soft gluon emissions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-06-01 v4

Abstract

We present an expression for the QCD amplitude for a general hard scattering process with any number of soft gluon emissions, to one-loop accuracy. The amplitude is written in two different but equivalent ways: as a product of operators ordered in dipole transverse momentum and as a product of loop-expanded currents. We hope that these results will help in the development of an all-orders algorithm for multiple emissions that includes the full colour structure and both the real and imaginary contributions to the amplitude.

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@article{arxiv.1602.00623,
  title  = {Ordering multiple soft gluon emissions},
  author = {René Ángeles-Martínez and Jeffrey R. Forshaw and Michael H. Seymour},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00623},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

v4: 3 pages; 1 figure, 4 references and small clarifications added. Version accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters