Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-08-21
Phys.Rev.D77:085009,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
44 pages, 69 figures typos fixed, clarifications and second appendix added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.085009
Motivated by the need to correct the potentially large kinematic errors in approximations used in the standard formulation of perturbative QCD, we reformulate deeply inelastic lepton-proton scattering in terms of gauge invariant, universal parton correlation functions which depend on all components of parton four-momentum. Currently, different hard QCD processes are described by very different perturbative formalisms, each relying on its own set of kinematical approximations. In this paper we show how to set up formalism that avoids approximations on final-state momenta, and thus has a very general domain of applicability. The use of exact kinematics introduces a number of significant conceptual shifts already at leading order, and tightly constrains the formalism. We show how to define parton correlation functions that generalize the concepts of parton density, fragmentation function, and soft factor. After setting up a general subtraction formalism, we obtain a factorization theorem. To avoid complications with Ward identities the full derivation is restricted to abelian gauge theories; even so the resulting structure is highly suggestive of a similar treatment for non-abelian gauge theories.
Collins John C.
Rogers Ted C.
Stasto Anna M.
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