An exponential regulator for rapidity divergences

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2020.115193zbMATH Open1472.81315arXiv1604.00392OpenAlexW3091876289MaRDI QIDQ823028FDOQ823028

Authors: N. E. Zubov 

Publication date: 24 September 2021

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

Abstract: Finding an efficient and compelling regularization of soft and collinear degrees of freedom at the same invariant mass scale, but separated in rapidity is a persistent problem in high-energy factorization. In the course of a calculation, one encounters divergences unregulated by dimensional regularization, often called rapidity divergences. Once regulated, a general framework exists for their renormalization, the rapidity renormalization group (RRG), leading to fully resummed calculations of transverse momentum (to the jet axis) sensitive quantities. We examine how this regularization can be implemented via a multi-differential factorization of the soft-collinear phase-space, leading to an (in principle) alternative non-perturbative regularization of rapidity divergences. As an example, we examine the fully-differential factorization of a color singlet's momentum spectrum in a hadron-hadron collision at threshold. We show how this factorization acts as a mother theory to both traditional threshold and transverse momentum resummation, recovering the classical results for both resummations. Examining the refactorization of the transverse momentum beam functions in the threshold region, we show that one can directly calculate the rapidity renormalized function, while shedding light on the structure of joint resummation. Finally, we show how using modern bootstrap techniques, the transverse momentum spectrum is determined by an expansion about the threshold factorization, leading to a viable higher loop scheme for calculating the relevant anomalous dimensions for the transverse momentum spectrum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00392

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Factorization theory (including Wiener-Hopf and spectral factorizations) of linear operators (47A68) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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