The Gluon Distribution Function and Factorization in Feynman Gauge

Details The Gluon Distribution Function and Factorization in Feynman Gauge The Gluon Distribution Function and Factorization in Feynman Gauge

2008-05-12

arxiv.org/abs/0805.1752v2

Phys.Rev.D78:054012,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

15 pages, 31 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.054012

A complication in proving factorization theorems in Feynman gauge is that individual graphs give a super-leading power of the hard scale when all the gluons inducing the hard scattering are longitudinally polarized. With the aid of an example in gluon-mediated deep inelastic scattering, we show that, although the super-leading terms cancel after a sum over graphs, there is a residual non-zero leading term from longitudinally polarized gluons. This is due to the non-zero transverse momenta of the gluons in the target. The non-cancellation, due to the non-Abelian property of the gauge group, is necessary to obtain the correct form of the gluon distribution function as a gauge-invariant matrix element.

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