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Colourful FKS subtraction

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-06-25 v2

Abstract

I formulate in a colour-friendly way the FKS method for the computation of QCD cross sections at the next-to-leading order accuracy. This is achieved through the definition of subtraction terms for squared matrix elements, constructed with single colour-dressed or pairs of colour-ordered amplitudes. The latter approach relies on the use of colour flows, is exact to all orders in NN, and is thus particularly suited to being organized as a systematic expansion in 1/N.

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@article{arxiv.1106.0155,
  title  = {Colourful FKS subtraction},
  author = {Stefano Frixione},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.0155},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

56 pages. This version is identical to that published in JHEP, except for a couple of minor corrections in app. C

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