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We study the Sudakov form factor and the four-point scattering amplitude on the Coulomb branch of planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM as functions of the Coulomb-branch parameters and kinematic invariants. This setup provides a controlled probe of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Luis F. Alday , Elisabetta Armanini , Andrei V. Belitsky , Kelian Häring , Alexander Zhiboedov

We complete the coordinate space calculation of the three-parton correlation in the two-loop massive soft anomalous dimension matrix. The full answer agrees with the result found previously by a different approach. The coordinate space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-22 Alexander Mitov , George Sterman , Ilmo Sung

The angle-dependent cusp anomalous dimension governs divergences coming from soft gluon exchanges between heavy particles, such as top quarks. We focus on the matter-dependent contributions and compute the first truly non-planar terms. They…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-20 Robin Brüser , Christoph Dlapa , Johannes M. Henn , Kai Yan

We discuss constraints imposed by soft limits for effective field theories arising from symmetry breaking. In particular, we consider those associated with anomalous conformal symmetry as well as duality symmetries in supergravity. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Yu-tin Huang , Congkao Wen

We establish a correspondence between ultraviolet singularities of soft factors for multiparticle production and rapidity singularities of soft factors for multiparton scattering. This correspondence is a consequence of the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-24 Alexey A. Vladimirov

We consider the recently developed diagrammatic approach to soft-gluon exponentiation in multiparton scattering amplitudes, where the exponent is written as a sum of webs - closed sets of diagrams whose colour and kinematic parts are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Einan Gardi , Jennifer M. Smillie , Chris D. White

An exact formula is derived for the infrared singularities of dimensionally regularized scattering amplitudes in massless QCD with an arbitrary number of legs, valid at any number of loops. It is based on the conjecture that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-23 Thomas Becher , Matthias Neubert

Scattering amplitudes involving multiple partons are plagued with infrared singularities. The soft singularities of the amplitude are captured by the soft function which is defined as the vacuum expectation value of Wilson line correlators.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-02 Shubham Mishra , Sourav Pal , Aditya Srivastav , Anurag Tripathi

We determine the complete three-loop QCD soft anomalous dimension for multileg amplitudes involving a single massive coloured particle and any number of massless ones. This is achieved by applying a novel strategy based on a lightcone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-03 Einan Gardi , Zehao Zhu

Tree and loop level scattering amplitudes which involve physical massless bosons are derived directly from physical constraints such as locality, symmetry and unitarity, bypassing path integral constructions. Amplitudes can be projected…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Rutger H. Boels , Hui Luo

A formula for the two-loop infrared singularities of dimensionally regularized QCD scattering amplitudes with an arbitrary number of massive and massless legs is derived. The singularities are obtained from the solution of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Thomas Becher , Matthias Neubert

There has been recent interest in understanding the all loop structure of the subleading power soft and collinear limits, with the goal of achieving a systematic resummation of subleading power infrared logarithms. Most of this work has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Ian Moult , Iain W. Stewart , Gherardo Vita , Hua Xing Zhu

We complete the study of two-loop infrared singularities of scattering amplitudes with an arbitrary number of massive and massless partons in non-abelian gauge theories. To this end, we calculate the universal functions F_1 and f_2, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-22 Andrea Ferroglia , Matthias Neubert , Ben D. Pecjak , Li Lin Yang

I discuss the state-of-the-art knowledge of long-distance singularities in multi-leg gauge-theory scattering amplitudes and report on an on-going calculation of the three-loop soft anomalous dimension through the renormalization of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-22 Einan Gardi

The general structure of infrared divergences in the scattering of massive particles is captured by the soft anomalous dimension matrix. The latter can be computed from a correlation function of multiple Wilson lines. The state-of-the-art…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Johannes M. Henn , Calum Milloy , Kai Yan

Recently, an all-order conjecture for the anomalous-dimension matrix of n-jet operators in SCET was proposed, which allows one to predict the structure of the infrared divergences of dimensionally regularized, massless gauge-theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-16 Leonardo Vernazza

I discuss and review soft anomalous dimensions in QCD that describe soft-gluon threshold resummation for a wide range of hard-scattering processes. The factorization properties of the cross section in moment space and renormalization-group…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-05 Nikolaos Kidonakis

Infrared divergences of QCD scattering amplitudes can be derived from an anomalous dimension matrix, which is also an essential ingredient for the resummation of large logarithms due to soft gluon emissions. We report a recent analytical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 A. Ferroglia , M. Neubert , B. D. Pecjak , L. L. Yang

Using an effective field theory (EFT) formalism for forward scattering, we reconsider the factorization of $2\to 2$ scattering amplitudes in the Regge limit. Expanding the amplitude in gauge invariant operators labelled by the number of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-14 Ian Moult , Sanjay Raman , Gregory Ridgway , Iain W. Stewart

We analyze the low-energy behavior of scattering amplitudes involving gravitons at loop level in four dimensions. The single-graviton soft limit is controlled by soft operators which have been argued to separate into a factorized piece and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-11 Johannes Broedel , Marius de Leeuw , Jan Plefka , Matteo Rosso