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Random polarisations of the dipoles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-30 v2

Abstract

We extend the dipole formalism for massless and massive partons to random polarisations of the external partons. The dipole formalism was originally formulated for spin-summed matrix elements and later extended to individual helicity eigenstates. For efficiency reasons one wants to replace the spin sum by a smooth integration over additional variables. This requires the extension of the dipole formalism to random polarisations. In this paper we derive the modified subtraction terms. We only modify the real subtraction terms, the integrated subtraction terms do not require any modifications.

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@article{arxiv.1205.4109,
  title  = {Random polarisations of the dipoles},
  author = {Daniel Goetz and Christopher Schwan and Stefan Weinzierl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.4109},
  year   = {2013}
}

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22 pages, version to be published