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Single soft gluon emission at two loops

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-11-20 v2

Abstract

We study the single soft-gluon current at two loops with two energetic partons in massless perturbative QCD, which describes, for example, the soft limit of the two-loop amplitude for ggHggg\to Hg. The results are presented as Laurent expansions in ϵ\epsilon in D=42ϵD=4-2\epsilon spacetime dimension. We calculate the expansion to order ϵ2\epsilon^2 analytically, which is a necessary ingredient for Higgs production at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in the soft-virtual approximation. We also give two-loop results of the single soft-gluon current in N=4{\cal N}=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory, and find that it has uniform transcendentality. By iteration relation of splitting amplitudes, our calculations can determine the three-loop single soft-gluon current to order ϵ0\epsilon^0 in N=4{\cal N}=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory in the limit of large NcN_c.

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@article{arxiv.1309.4391,
  title  = {Single soft gluon emission at two loops},
  author = {Ye Li and Hua Xing Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.4391},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

typos corrected; journal version

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