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We describe a general method that enables us to obtain all the singular terms of helicity amplitudes of n-parton processes at one loop. The algorithm uses helicity amplitudes at tree level and simple color algebra. We illustrate the method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Zoltan Kunszt , Adrian Signer , Zoltan Trocsanyi

Following an argument advanced by Feynman, we consider a method for obtaining the effective action which generates the sum of tree diagrams with external physical particles. This technique is applied, in the unbroken \lambda \phi^4 theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Fernando T Brandt , Josif Frenkel

I derive a single factorization formula which summarizes all soft and collinear divergences of a tree-level gauge theory amplitude. The singular factor squared is in a certain sense the generalization of the Catani-Seymour dipole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 David A. Kosower

The exclusive process e+ e- -> e+ e- rho^0_L rho^0_L allows to study various dynamics and factorization properties of perturbative QCD. At moderate energy, we demonstrate how collinear QCD factorization emerges, involving generalized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-10-04 S. Wallon , B. Pire , M. Segond , L. Szymanowski

We present two novel results about the universal structure of radiative QED amplitudes in the soft and in the collinear limit. On the one hand, we extend the well-known Low-Burnett-Kroll theorem to the one-loop level and give the explicit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-04 Tim Engel , Adrian Signer , Yannick Ulrich

I review the basics of the collinear factorization theorem applied primarily to deep inelastic scattering (DIS) involving forward parton distributions (PDFs) and the extensions of this theorem for exclusive processes probing non-forward…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Lech Szymanowski

We study the soft limit of one-loop QCD amplitudes and we derive the process-independent factorization formula that controls the singular behaviour in this limit. This is obtained from the customary eikonal factorization formula valid at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Catani , M. Grazzini

We calculate in the framework of collinear factorization the amplitude for the photoproduction of a near forward large mass diphoton at leading twist and next to leading order (NLO) in $\alpha_s$. We demonstrate the validity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-15 Oskar Grocholski , Bernard Pire , Paweł Sznajder , Lech Szymanowski , Jakub Wagner

We review applicability of QCD factorization theorem to multiple scattering in deeply inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering. We show why A^{1/3}-type nuclear enhancement can be calculated consistently in perturbative QCD. We derive the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Xiaofeng Guo , Jianwei Qiu

We compute two infinite series of tree-level amplitudes with a massive scalar pair and an arbitrary number of gluons. We provide results for amplitudes where all gluons have identical helicity, and amplitudes with one gluon of opposite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

We provide a precise statement of hard-soft-collinear factorization of scattering amplitudes and prove it to all orders in perturbation theory. Factorization is formulated as the equality at leading power of scattering amplitudes in QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-09 Ilya Feige , Matthew D. Schwartz

In this talk, we review a QCD factorization based approach to extract parton distribution and correlation functions from lattice QCD calculation of single hadron matrix elements of quark-gluon operators. We argue that although the lattice…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Yan-Qing Ma , Jian-Wei Qiu

We update the leading order in $\alpha_s$ QCD amplitude for deep exclusive neutrino and antineutrino production of a light meson on an unpolarized nucleon. The factorization theorems of the collinear QCD approach allow us to write the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-05 B. Pire , L. Szymanowski , J. Wagner

In this paper, we investigate the factorization hypothesis step by step for the exclusive process $B \to \rho$ at next-to-leading order (NLO) with the collinear factorization approach, and then we extend our results to the $k_T$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-16 Jun Hua , Ya-Lan Zhang , Zhen-Jun Xiao

Tree amplitudes of the production of two kinds of scalar particles at threshold from one virtual particle are calculated in a model of two scalar fields with $O(2)$ symmetric quartic interaction and unequal masses. These amplitudes exhibit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. V. Libanov , V. A. Rubakov , S. V. Troitsky

Splitting functions are universal functions describing the collinear dynamics of gauge theories, and as such are crucial ingredients for a wide variety of calculations in perturbative QCD. We present analytic results for the triple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-29 Evan Craft , Mark Gonzalez , Kyle Lee , Bianka Meçaj , Ian Moult

Singular factors originating from the QCD factorisation of scattering amplitudes in soft and collinear limits play a prominent role in both organising and computing high-order perturbative contributions to hard-scattering cross sections. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-16 Prasanna K. Dhani

We study the factorization of soft and collinear singularities in dimensionally-regularized fixed-angle scattering amplitudes in massless gauge theories. Our factorization is based on replacing the hard massless partons by light-like Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-19 Einan Gardi , Lorenzo Magnea

Recent progress in our understanding of infrared singularities of multi-parton amplitudes has shown that the simplest form of Regge factorization for high-energy gauge-theory amplitudes fails starting at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Vittorio Del Duca , Giulio Falcioni , Lorenzo Magnea , Leonardo Vernazza

In this paper we firstly demonstrate step by step that the factorization hypothesis is valid at the next-to-leading order (NLO) for the exclusive process $\rho \gamma^{\star} \to \rho$ by employing the collinear factorization approach, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-10 Ya-lan Zhang , Shan Cheng , Jun Hua , Zhen-jun Xiao