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Renormalization of non-singlet quark operator matrix elements for off-forward hard scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-09-14 v2

Abstract

We calculate non-singlet quark operator matrix elements of deep-inelastic scattering in the chiral limit including operators with total derivatives. This extends previous calculations with zero-momentum transfer through the operator vertex which provides the well-known anomalous dimensions for the evolution of parton distributions, as well as calculations in off-forward kinematics utilizing conformal symmetry. Non-vanishing momentum-flow through the operator vertex leads to mixing with total derivative operators under renormalization. In the limit of a large number of quark flavors nfn_f and for low moments in full QCD, we determine the anomalous dimension matrix to fifth order in the perturbative expansion in the strong coupling αs\alpha_s in the \mboxMS\overline{\mbox{MS}}-scheme. We exploit consistency relations for the anomalous dimension matrix which follow from the renormalization structure of the operators, combined with a direct calculation of the relevant diagrams up to fourth order.

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@article{arxiv.2107.02470,
  title  = {Renormalization of non-singlet quark operator matrix elements for off-forward hard scattering},
  author = {S. Moch and S. Van Thurenhout},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.02470},
  year   = {2021}
}

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39 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure, journal version

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