Equality of hemisphere soft functions for e^+ e^-, DIS and pp collisions at O(_s^2)

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.06.057zbMATH Open1345.81123arXiv1504.04006OpenAlexW1632640611MaRDI QIDQ315974FDOQ315974

Authors: Daekyoung Kang, Ou Z. Labun, Christopher Lee 

Publication date: 26 September 2016

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a simple observation about soft amplitudes and soft functions appearing in factorizable cross sections in $ee$, $ep$, and $pp$ collisions that has not clearly been made in previous literature, namely, that the hemisphere soft functions that appear in event shape distributions in $e^{+}{e}^{-}o$ dijets, deep inelastic scattering (DIS), and in Drell-Yan (DY) processes are equal in perturbation theory up to $mathcalO(alph{a}_s^2)$, even though individual amplitudes may have opposite sign imaginary parts due to changing complex pole prescriptions in eikonal propagators for incoming vs. outgoing lines. We also explore potential generalizations of this observation to soft functions for other observables or with more jets in the final state.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04006

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zbMATH Keywords

factorizationQCDjetsdeep inelastic scatteringDrell-Yansoft function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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