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Multi-Gluon Collinear Limits from MHV diagrams

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider the multi-collinear limit of multi-gluon QCD amplitudes at tree level. We use the MHV rules for constructing colour ordered tree amplitudes and the general collinear factorization formula to derive timelike splitting functions that are valid for specific numbers of negative helicity gluons and an arbitrary number of positive helicity gluons (or vice versa). As an example we present new results describing the collinear limits of up to six gluons.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0503063,
  title  = {Multi-Gluon Collinear Limits from MHV diagrams},
  author = {T. G. Birthwright and E. W. N. Glover and V. V. Khoze and P. Marquard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0503063},
  year   = {2009}
}

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28 pages, six figures, JHEP3 class

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