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Soft corrections to inclusive DIS at four loops and beyond

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-08-09 v1

Abstract

We study the threshold corrections to the structure functions in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) at the fifth logarithmic (N4^4LL) order of the soft-gluon exponentiation in massless perturbative QCD. Using recent results for the splitting functions and the quark form factor, we derive the fourth-order contribution to the coefficient fqf^{\rm q} of the form factor and from it the N4^4LL part of the exponentiation coefficient BDISB^{\rm DIS} in the limit of a large number of colours. An approximation scheme is shown that leads to sufficiently accurate N4^4LL results for full QCD. The N4^4LL corrections are small and lead to a further stabilization of the perturbative expansion for the soft-gluon exponent.

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@article{arxiv.1908.03071,
  title  = {Soft corrections to inclusive DIS at four loops and beyond},
  author = {Goutam Das and Sven-Olaf Moch and Andreas Vogt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.03071},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

6 pages, LaTeX (PoS style), 4 figures, Contribution to the proceedings of `DIS2019', Torino (Italy), April 2019

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