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Renormalisation of heavy-light light ray operators

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-28 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We calculate the renormalisation of different light ray operators with one light degree of freedom and a static heavy quark. Both 222\to2- and 232\to3-kernels are considered. A comparison with the light-light case suggests that the mixing with three-particle operators is solely governed by the light degrees of freedom. Additionally we show that conformal symmetry is already broken at the level of the one loop counterterms due to the additional UV-renormalisation of a cusp in the two contributing Wilson-lines. This general feature can be used to fix the 222\to2-renormalisation kernels up to a constant. Some examples for applications of our results are given.

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@article{arxiv.1105.4569,
  title  = {Renormalisation of heavy-light light ray operators},
  author = {Michael Knoedlseder and Nils Offen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4569},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

23 pages, 5 figures; v2: changed some wording, added a few references and one appendix concerning some subtleties related to gauge fixing and ghost terms; v3: clarified calculation in section 3.2., added an explicit calculation in section 5.2, corrected a few typos and one figure, added a few comments, results unchanged, except for typesetting matches version to appear in JHEP

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