Thursday, June 28, 2012

1206.6363 (Jeffrey R. Forshaw et al.)

On the breaking of collinear factorization in QCD    [PDF]

Jeffrey R. Forshaw, Michael H. Seymour, Andrzej Siodmok
We investigate the breakdown of collinear factorization for non-inclusive observables in hadron-hadron collisions. For pure QCD processes, factorization is violated at the three-loop level and it has a structure identical to that encountered previously in the case of super-leading logarithms. In particular, it is driven by the non-commutation of Coulomb/Glauber gluon exchanges with other soft exchanges. Beyond QCD, factorization may be violated at the two-loop level provided that the hard subprocess contains matrix element contributions with phase differences between different colour topologies.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6363

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