On the next-to-next-to-leading order evolution of flavour-singlet fragmentation functions

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.08.028zbMATH Open1229.81296arXiv1107.2263OpenAlexW2063258801WikidataQ118178771 ScholiaQ118178771MaRDI QIDQ659352FDOQ659352

Andrea A. Almasy, A. Vogt, Sven-Olaf Moch

Publication date: 18 January 2012

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

Abstract: We present the third-order contributions to the quark-gluon and gluon-quark timelike splitting functions for the evolution of fragmentation functions in perturbative QCD. These quantities have been derived by studying physical evolution kernels for photon- and Higgs-exchange structure functions in deep inelastic scattering and their counterparts in semi-inclusive annihilation, together with constraints from the momentum sum rule and the supersymmetric limit. For this purpose we have also calculated the second-order coefficient functions for one-hadron inclusive Higgs decay in the heavy-top limit. A numerically tolerable uncertainty remains for the quark-gluon splitting function, which does not affect the endpoint logarithms for small and large momentum fractions. We briefly discuss these limits and illustrate the numerical impact of the third-order corrections. Compact and accurate parametrizations are provided for all third-order timelike splitting functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2263

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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• Renormalization group flows for track function moments
• Average gluon and quark jet multiplicities at higher orders
• Two-loop evolution equations for flavor-singlet light-ray operators
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• Antenna subtraction for processes with identified particles at hadron colliders
• Evolutions of longitudinal structure function \(F_L\) upto next-to-next-to-leading orders at small-\(x\)
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• Resummation of small-\(x\) double logarithms in QCD: semi-inclusive electron-positron annihilation
• Next-to-leading and resummed BFKL evolution with saturation boundary
• Five-particle phase-space integrals in QCD
• Timelike single-logarithm-resummed splitting functions
• Four-loop non-singlet splitting functions in the planar limit and beyond

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