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Three-loop cusp anomalous dimension and a conjecture for $n$ loops

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-05-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

I present analytical expressions for the cusp anomalous dimension in QCD through three loops in terms of elementary functions and ordinary polylogarithms. I observe interesting relations between the results at different loops and provide a conjecture for the nn-loop cusp anomalous dimension in terms of the lower-loop results. I also present numerical results and simple approximate formulas for the cusp anomalous dimension relevant to top-quark production.

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@article{arxiv.1601.01666,
  title  = {Three-loop cusp anomalous dimension and a conjecture for $n$ loops},
  author = {Nikolaos Kidonakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.01666},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

16 pages, 5 figures; a new section has been added and several other additions/changes made in v2

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