Towards three-loop QCD corrections to the time-like splitting functions
Abstract
We report on the status of a direct computation of the time-like splitting functions at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. Time-like splitting functions govern the collinear kinematics of inclusive hadron production and the evolution of the parton fragmentation distributions. Current knowledge about them at three loops has been inferred by means of crossing symmetry from their related space-like counterparts, which has left certain parts of the off-diagonal quark-gluon splitting function undetermined. This motivates an independent calculation from first principles. We review the tools and methods which are applied to attack the problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1505.02901,
title = {Towards three-loop QCD corrections to the time-like splitting functions},
author = {Oleksandr Gituliar and Sven Moch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.02901},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages, 5 figures; presented at the Epiphany Conference 2015 (Cracow, Poland); additional files: MassFactorization.nb