On _5 in higher-order QCD calculations and the NNLO evolution of the polarized valence distribution

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.07.027zbMATH Open1345.81125arXiv1506.04517OpenAlexW1579633319MaRDI QIDQ316049FDOQ316049

Authors: Sven-Olaf Moch, J. A. M. Vermaseren, A. Vogt 

Publication date: 26 September 2016

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

Abstract: We discuss the prescription for the Dirac matrix gamma_5 in dimensional regularization used in most second- and third-order QCD calculations of collider cross sections. We provide an alternative implementation of this approach that avoids the use of an explicit form of gamma_5 and of its (anti-) commutation relations in the most important case of no more than one gamma_5 in each fermion trace. This treatment is checked by computing the third-order corrections to the structure functions F_2 and g_1 in charged-current deep-inelastic scattering with axial-vector couplings to the W-bosons. We derive the so far unknown third-order helicity-difference splitting function Delta P_ns^(2)s that contributes to the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) evolution of the polarized valence quark distribution of the nucleon. This function is negligible at momentum fractions x >~ 0.3 but relevant at x << 1.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04517

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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