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Both the higher energy and the initial state colored partons contribute to making exact calculations in QCD color space more important at the LHC than at its predecessors. This is applicable whether the method of assessing QCD is fixed…
Power corrections to differential cross sections near a kinematic threshold are analysed by Dressed Gluon Exponentiation. Exploiting the factorization property of soft and collinear radiation, the dominant radiative corrections in the…
We review the current status of high-multiplicity double-virtual QCD corrections to processes relevant for LHC phenomenology. In particular, we discuss the recent full-color calculation of the five-parton process, whose two-loop amplitudes…
We consider confining Hidden Valley/Dark Sector theories containing many dark quark flavors. These theories are in the ``conformal window'': they reach an infrared fixed point when their quarks are massless, and have unfamiliar confinement…
We derive an improved prescription for the merging of matrix elements with parton showers, extending the CKKW approach. A flavour-dependent phase space separation criterion is proposed. We show that this new method preserves the logarithmic…
We present some results on renormalization and factorization scale dependence of soft-gluon resummation, at the next-to-leading-logarithmic level, in the fixed-target hadro-production cross-section for prompt photons.
We outline arguments for the cancellation of soft singularities in transition probabilities and parton distributions with incoming partons and Wilson lines, and with observed jets or heavy colored particles in the final states. We show the…
We describe a new framework for soft gluon resummation, based on path integral methods. The approach recovers previous results obtained in the eikonal approximation, in which all emitted gluons become soft. Furthermore, a clear physical…
Ptychography is now integrated as a tool in mainstream microscopy allowing quantitative and high-resolution imaging capabilities over a wide field of view. However, its ultimate performance is inevitably limited by the available coherent…
Gluons acquire a determinate mass from quark loop radiative corrrections and self-interaction, when these are recomputed with the symmetrical theory of generalised functions. The colour symmetry may be~$U(3)$ instead of~$SU(3)$. The…
We develop a unified resummation framework for heavy-meson pair photoproduction that treats soft-gluon radiation in a massive scheme for $|\boldsymbol q| \lesssim m_Q$ and is consistent with the massless limit $m_Q \ll |\boldsymbol q|$,…
We develop a novel Monte Carlo parton branching algorithm based on the Gribov-Levin-Ryskin (GLR) equation. The formulations of both forward evolution and backward evolution for the GLR equation are presented. The results from the Monte…
Presented here is a technique of propagating uncertainties through the parton shower by means of an alternate event weight. This technique provides a mechanism to systematically quantify the effect of variations of certain components of the…
We show that threshold resummation of the end-point logarithms in inclusive $b$-hadron decays leads to a Sudakov factor, which introduces $1/m_b$ power corrections through infrared renormalons. These power corrections are strong enough to…
In calculations of (semi-) inclusive events within perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, large logarithmic corrections arise from certain kinematic regions of interest which need to be resummed. When resumming soft gluon effects one…
A study of the parameterization uncertainty at low Bjorken $x \le 0.1$ for the parton distribution functions of the proton is presented. The study is based on the HERA I combined data using a flexible parameterization form based on…
Lifted probabilistic inference exploits symmetries in a probabilistic model to allow for tractable probabilistic inference with respect to domain sizes. To apply lifted inference, a lifted representation has to be obtained, and to do so,…
A new phenomenological cluster-hadronization model is presented. Its specific features are the incorporation of soft colour reconnection, a more general treatment of diquarks including their spin and giving rise to clusters with baryonic…
We present a general all-order formulation of Sudakov resummation in QCD in terms of dispersion integrals. We show that the Sudakov exponent can be written as a dispersion integral over spectral density functions, weighted by characteristic…
The total variation filtering technique emerges as a highly effective strategy for restoring signals with discontinuities in various parts of their structure. This study presents and implements a one-dimensional signal filtering algorithm…