On soft singularities at three loops and beyond

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2010)081zbMATH Open1270.81217arXiv0910.3653WikidataQ59254834 ScholiaQ59254834MaRDI QIDQ360758FDOQ360758

Einan Gardi, Lance J. Dixon, L. Magnea

Publication date: 27 August 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We report on further progress in understanding soft singularities of massless gauge theory scattering amplitudes. Recently, a set of equations was derived based on Sudakov factorization, constraining the soft anomalous dimension matrix of multi-leg scattering amplitudes to any loop order, and relating it to the cusp anomalous dimension. The minimal solution to these equations was shown to be a sum over color dipoles. Here we explore potential contributions to the soft anomalous dimension that go beyond the sum-over-dipoles formula. Such contributions are constrained by factorization and invariance under rescaling of parton momenta to be functions of conformally invariant cross ratios. Therefore, they must correlate the color and kinematic degrees of freedom of at least four hard partons, corresponding to gluon webs that connect four eikonal lines, which first appear at three loops. We analyze potential contributions, combining all available constraints, including Bose symmetry, the expected degree of transcendentality, and the singularity structure in the limit where two hard partons become collinear. We find that if the kinematic dependence is solely through products of logarithms of cross ratios, then at three loops there is a unique function that is consistent with all available constraints. If polylogarithms are allowed to appear as well, then at least two additional structures are consistent with the available constraints.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3653

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zbMATH Keywords

QCDjets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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