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We have computed the even-$N$ moments $N \leq 20$ of the gluon-to-quark splitting function $P_{\rm qg}$ at the fourth order of perturbative QCD via the renormalization of off-shell operator matrix elements. Our results, derived analytically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-16 G. Falcioni , F. Herzog , S. Moch , A. Vogt

The light-like cusp anomalous dimension is a universal function that controls infrared divergences in quite general quantum field theories. In the maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory this function is fixed fully by integrability to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-17 Rutger H. Boels , Tobias Huber , Gang Yang

We present the even-N moments N =< 20 of the fourth-order (N^3LO) contribution P_{gq}^(3)(x) to the quark-to-gluon splitting function in perturbative QCD. These moments, obtained by analytically computing off-shell operator matrix elements…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-16 G. Falcioni , F. Herzog , S. Moch , A. Pelloni , A. Vogt

We study the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) evolution of flavour singlet parton densities and structure functions in massless perturbative QCD. Present information on the corresponding three-loop splitting functions is used to derive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 W. L. van Neerven , A. Vogt

We carry out a global QCD analysis of parton-to-pion fragmentation functions at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy by performing a fit to the combined set of single-inclusive electron-positron annihilation and, for the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-13 Ignacio Borsa , Daniel de Florian , Rodolfo Sassot , Marco Stratmann , Werner Vogelsang

We have computed the even-N moments N =< 20 of the gluon-gluon splitting function P_{gg} at the fourth order of perturbative QCD via the renormalization of off-shell operator matrix elements. Our results, derived analytically for a general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 G. Falcioni , F. Herzog , S. Moch , A. Pelloni , A. Vogt

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 present the first next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) calculation of the twist-2 matching coefficients for transverse momentum dependent (TMD) quark transversity parton distribution and fragmentation functions in QCD. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Yu Jiao Zhu

We report a new result for the $N_f \,C_F^3$ contribution to the four-loop anomalous dimensions of non-singlet, twist-two operators in Quantum Chromodynamics. This result is obtained through computations of off-shell operator matrix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-02 Thomas Gehrmann , Andreas von Manteuffel , Vasily Sotnikov , Tong-Zhi Yang

We report on the status of a direct computation of the time-like splitting functions at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. Time-like splitting functions govern the collinear kinematics of inclusive hadron production and the evolution of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Oleksandr Gituliar , Sven Moch

We have determined the fourth-order $n_f$ contributions to the two splitting functions governing the evolution of all flavor differences of quark distributions of hadrons in perturbative quantum chromodynamics with $n_f$ light flavors. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 B. A. Kniehl , S. Moch , V. N. Velizhanin , A. Vogt

We have calculated the n_f^2 and n_f^3 contributions to the flavour non-singlet structure functions F_2 and F_L in inclusive deep-inelastic scattering at the fourth order in the strong coupling alpha_s. The coefficient functions have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 A. Basdew-Sharma , A. Pelloni , Franz Herzog , A. Vogt

We present results on the fourth-order splitting functions and coefficient functions obtained using Forcer, a four-loop generalization of the Mincer program for the parametric reduction of self-energy integrals. We have computed the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-27 B. Ruijl , T. Ueda , J. A. M. Vermaseren , J. Davies , A. Vogt

Correlation functions of Wilson lines are relevant for describing the infrared structure of scattering amplitudes. We develop a new method for evaluating a wide class of such Wilson line integrals, and apply it to the calculation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Johannes M. Henn , Tobias Huber

We review the status of the calculation of the time-like splitting functions for the evolution of fragmentation functions to the next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. By employing relations between space-like and time-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-07-03 S. Moch , A. Vogt

We present numerical solutions of the $Q^2$ evolution equations at next-to-leading order (NLO) for unpolarized and polarized parton distributions, in both the flavor non-singlet and singlet channels. The numerical method is based on a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Weigl , W. Melnitchouk

At the end of 2016, we computed the five-loop (N$^4$LO) contributions to the beta function in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), its generalization to non-Abelian gauge theories with a simple compact Lie group, and for Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 F. Herzog , B. Ruijl , T. Ueda , J. Vermaseren , A. Vogt

We consider the anomalous dimension of the flavor non-singlet twist-two quark operator of arbitrary Lorentz spin N at four loops in QCD and construct its contribution proportional to zeta(3) in analytic form by applying advanced methods of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 B. A. Kniehl , V. N. Velizhanin

We have calculated the splitting functions governing the evolution of the unpolarized parton distributions of the photon at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) of massless perturbative QCD. The results, presented here mainly in terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Vogt , S. Moch , J. Vermaseren

We obtain the quark and gluon rapidity anomalous dimension to fourth order in QCD. We calculate the N$^3$LO rapidity anomalous dimensions to higher order in the dimensional regulator and make use of the soft/rapidity anomalous dimension…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-12 Claude Duhr , Bernhard Mistlberger , Gherardo Vita