Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-08-27
Nucl.Phys. B622 (2002) 365-392
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
28 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00594-6
Perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of differential cross-sections close to a kinematic threshold are studied applying ``dressed gluon exponentiation'' (DGE). The factorization property of soft and collinear gluon radiation is demonstrated using the light-cone axial gauge: it is shown that the singular part of the squared matrix element for the emission of an off-shell gluon off a nearly on-shell quark is universal. We derive a generalized splitting function that describes the emission probability and show how Sudakov logs emerge from the phase-space boundary where the gluon transverse momentum vanishes. Both soft and collinear logs associated with a single dressed gluon are computed through a single integral over the running-coupling to any logarithmic accuracy. The result then serves as the kernel for exponentiation. The divergence of the perturbative series in the exponent indicates specific non-perturbative corrections. We identify two classes of observables according to whether the radiation is from an initial-state quark, as in the Drell-Yan process, or a final-state quark, forming a jet with a constrained invariant mass, as in fragmentation functions, event-shape variables and deep inelastic structure functions.
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