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We have studied the recently completed analytic all-N expressions for the four-loop anomalous dimensions corresponding to the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order splitting functions for the non-singlet quark distribution in perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 S. Moch , A. Vogt

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

We have computed the contributions of the quartic Casimir invariants to the four-loop anomalous dimensions of twist-2 spin-N operators at N =< 16. The results provide new information on the structure of the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-20 S. Moch , B. Ruijl , T. Ueda , J. A. M. Vermaseren , A. Vogt

The resummation of soft gluon exchange for QCD hard scattering requires a matrix of anomalous dimensions, which has been computed through two loops. The two-loop matrix is proportional to the one-loop matrix. Recently there have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 Lance J. Dixon

We present novel techniques for the computation of three-loop four-parton scattering amplitudes in full color, non-planar gauge theories. We elaborate on how the analytic results for these amplitudes can be used to confirm the conjectured…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-18 Amlan Chakraborty , Giulio Gambuti

In CFTs, the partition function of a line defect with a cusp depends logarithmically on the size of the line with an angle-dependent coefficient: the cusp anomalous dimension. In the first part of this work, we study the general properties…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-15 Gabriel Cuomo , Yin-Chen He , Zohar Komargodski

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

The three-loop non-mixing contributions to the anomalous dimension of the leading order quark pair production current in non-relativistic QCD are computed. It is demonstrated that the renormalization procedure can only be carried out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. H. Hoang

The infrared divergences of QCD scattering amplitudes can be derived from an anomalous dimension \Gamma, which is a matrix in color space and depends on the momenta and masses of the external partons. It has recently been shown that in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 Andrea Ferroglia , Matthias Neubert , Ben D. Pecjak , Li Lin Yang

We present the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N^3LO) contributions to the non-singlet splitting functions for both parton distribution and fragmentation functions in perturbative QCD. The exact expressions are derived for the terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-25 S. Moch , B. Ruijl , T. Ueda , J. A. M. Vermaseren , A. Vogt

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 compute the nonplanar contribution to the universal anomalous dimension of the SU(4)-singlet twist-two operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at four loops through Lorentz spin 18. From this, we numerically evaluate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-17 B. A. Kniehl , V. N. Velizhanin

We calculate all contributions $\propto T_F$ to the polarized three-loop anomalous dimensions in the M-scheme using massive operator matrix elements and compare to results in the literature. This includes the complete anomalous dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-25 A. Behring , J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , A. Goedicke , S. Klein , A. von Manteuffel , C. Schneider , K. Schönwald

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

We review the current status of calculations of the HQET field anomalous dimension and the cusp anomalous dimension. In particular, we give the results at 4 loops for the quartic Casimir contribution, and for the full QED case, up to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-18 R. Brüser , A. G. Grozin , J. M. Henn , M. Stahlhofen

The 4-loop $C_F^3 T_F n_l$ and 5-loop $C_F^4 T_F n_l$ terms in the HQET field anomalous dimension $\gamma_h$ are calculated analytically (the 4-loop one agrees with the recent numerical result [arXiv:1801.08292]). The 4-loop $C_F^3 T_F n_l$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Andrey Grozin

In this work we study the cusp anomalous dimension of the marginally deformed N=4 sYM theory. We find the expression of the cusp anomalous dimension both at the weak and strong coupling limits. On the gravity side we partially map the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-03 George Georgiou , Dimitrios Giataganas

We analyze the cusp anomalous dimension in the (leading) ladder limit of $\mathcal N=4$ SYM and present new results for its higher-order perturbative expansion. We study two different limits with respect to the cusp angle $\phi$. The first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Matteo Beccaria , Alberto Fachechi , Guido Macorini

We study the velocity-dependent cusp anomalous dimension in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. In a paper by Correa, Maldacena, Sever, and one of the present authors, a scaling limit was identified in which the ladder diagrams are dominant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 J. M. Henn , T. Huber

We compute the null cusp anomalous dimension of ABJM theory at strong coupling up to two-loop order. This is done by evaluating corrections to the corresponding superstring partition function, weighted by the $AdS_4\times \mathbb{CP}^3$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Lorenzo Bianchi , Marco S. Bianchi , Alexis Bres , Valentina Forini , Edoardo Vescovi