Soft Collinear Degeneracies in an Asymptotically Free Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-08-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
In asymptotically free theories with collinear divergences it is sometimes claimed that these divergences cancel if one sums over initial and final state degenerate cross-sections and uses an off-shell renormalisation scheme. We show for scalar theory in six dimensions that there are further classes of soft collinear divergences and that they do not cancel. Furthermore, they yield a non-convergent series of terms at a fixed order of perturbation theory. Similar effects in gauge theories are also summarised.
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@article{arxiv.1008.3949,
title = {Soft Collinear Degeneracies in an Asymptotically Free Theory},
author = {Martin Lavelle and David McMullan and Tom Steele},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.3949},
year = {2010}
}
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10 pages with embedded figures in LaTeX