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We study the origin of subleading soft and collinear poles of form factors and amplitudes in dimensionally-regulated massless gauge theories. In the case of form factors of fundamental fields, these poles originate from a single function of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Lance J. Dixon , Lorenzo Magnea , George Sterman

Using rapidity evolution equations we study two-to-two gauge-theory scattering amplitudes in the Regge limit. We carry out explicit computations at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy through four loops and present new results for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-30 Giulio Falcioni , Einan Gardi , Niamh Maher , Calum Milloy , Leonardo Vernazza

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

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

Using an iterative solution of rapidity evolution equations, we compute partonic $2\to 2$ gauge theory amplitudes at four loops in full colour up to the Next-to-Next-to-Leading Logarithms (NNLL) in the Regge limit. By contrasting the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-08 Giulio Falcioni , Einan Gardi , Calum Milloy , Leonardo Vernazza

It is by now well known that, at subleading power in scale ratios, factorization theorems for high-energy cross sections and decay amplitudes contain endpoint-divergent convolution integrals. The presence of these divergences hints at a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-06 Ze Long Liu , Matthias Neubert

We derive the structure of three-loop anomalous dimensions governing infrared singularities of QCD amplitudes with one massive and an arbitrary number of massless external partons. The contributions of tripole and quadrupole correlations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-09 Ze Long Liu , Nicolas Schalch

Infrared subtraction algorithms beyond next-to-leading order necessitate the analysis of multiple infrared limits of scattering amplitudes, where several particles sequentially become soft or collinear. In this contribution, we report on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-11 Lorenzo Magnea , Calum Milloy , Chiara Signorile-Signorile , Paolo Torrielli

We examine in detail the structure of the Regge limit of the (nonplanar) ${\cal N}=4$ SYM four-point amplitude. We begin by developing a basis of color factors $C_{ik}$ suitable for the Regge limit of the amplitude at any loop order, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Stephen G. Naculich

We introduce infrared finite, analytic, crossing symmetric, Regge behaved, and Lorentz invariant amplitudes $\mathcal{M}_{\mathcal {E}}$, labeled by the experimental energy resolution $\mathcal{E}$ for detecting soft photons and gravitons.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-20 B. Bellazzini , J. Berman , G. Isabella , F. Riva , M. Romano , F. Sciotti

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

We derive a compact all-loop-order expression for the IR-divergent part of the N=4 SYM four-gluon amplitude, which includes both planar and all subleading-color contributions, based on the assumption that the higher-loop soft anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Stephen G. Naculich , Howard J. Schnitzer

Recently, there has been significant progress in computing scattering amplitudes in the high-energy limit using rapidity evolution equations. We describe the state-of-the-art and demonstrate the interplay between exponentiation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-24 Einan Gardi , Simon Caron-Huot , Joscha Reichel , Leonardo Vernazza

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

The abundance of infrared singularities in gauge theories due to unresolved emission of massless particles (soft and collinear) represents the main difficulty in perturbative calculations. They are typically regularized in dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Roger J. Hernandez-Pinto , German F. R. Sborlini , German Rodrigo

A consistent factorization theorem is presented in the framework of effective field theories. Conventional factorization suffers from infrared divergences in the soft and collinear parts. We present a factorization theorem in which the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-27 Junegone Chay , Chul Kim

When energies or angles of gluons emitted in a gauge-theory process are small and strongly ordered, the emission factorizes in a simple way to all orders in perturbation theory. I show how to unify the various strongly-ordered soft, mixed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 David A. Kosower

I present a class of functions unifying all singular limits for the emission of soft or collinear gluons in gauge-theory amplitudes at any order in perturbation theory. Each function is a generalization of the antenna functions of ref. [1].…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 David A. Kosower

We discuss the structure of infrared singularities in on-shell QCD amplitudes at two-loop order. We present a general factorization formula that controls all the $\ep$-poles of the dimensionally regularized amplitudes. The dependence on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefano Catani

After a brief introduction to the problem of subtraction of infrared divergences for high-order collider observables, we present a preliminary study of strongly-ordered soft and collinear multiple radiation from the point of view of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 Lorenzo Magnea , Calum Milloy , Chiara Signorile-Signorile , Paolo Torrielli , Sandro Uccirati