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Soft-Collinear Effective Theory: BRST Formulation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-07-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We provide a systematic BRST formalism for the soft-collinear effective theory describing interactions of soft and collinear degrees of freedom in the presence of a hard interaction. In particular, we develop full BRST symmetry transformation for SCET theory. We further extend the BRST formulation by making the transformation field dependent. This establishes a mapping between several SCET actions consistently when defined in different gauge conditions. In fact, a definite structure of gauge-fixed actions corresponding to any particular gauge condition can be generated for SCET theory using our formulation.

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@article{arxiv.1912.09482,
  title  = {Soft-Collinear Effective Theory: BRST Formulation},
  author = {Sudhaker Upadhyay and Bhabani Prasad Mandal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.09482},
  year   = {2021}
}

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10 pages, no figure

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