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Soft-gluon resolution scale in QCD evolution equations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-23 v1

Abstract

QCD evolution equations can be recast in terms of parton branching processes. We present a new numerical solution of the equations. We show that this parton-branching solution can be applied to analyze infrared contributions to evolution, order-by-order in the strong coupling αs\alpha_s, as a function of the soft-gluon resolution scale parameter. We examine the cases of transverse-momentum ordering and angular ordering. We illustrate that this approach can be used to treat distributions which depend both on longitudinal and on transverse momenta.

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@article{arxiv.1704.01757,
  title  = {Soft-gluon resolution scale in QCD evolution equations},
  author = {F. Hautmann and H. Jung and A. Lelek and V. Radescu and R. Zlebcik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.01757},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Latex, 8 pages, 4 figures

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