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Title: The LPM effect in sequential bremsstrahlung: nearly complete results for QCD

Abstract

The splitting processes of bremsstrahlung and pair production in a medium are coherent over large distances in the very high energy limit, which leads to a suppression known as the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) effect. We continue study of the case when the coherence lengths of two consecutive splitting processes overlap (which is important for understanding corrections to standard treatments of the LPM effect in QCD), avoiding soft-emission approximations. Previous work has computed overlap effects for double splitting g → gg → ggg. To make use of those results, one also needs calculations of related virtual loop corrections to single splitting g → gg in order to cancel severe (power-law) infrared (IR) divergences. This paper provides calculations of nearly all such processes involving gluons and discusses how to organize the results to demonstrate the cancellation. In the soft emission limit, our results reproduce the known double-log behavior of earlier authors who worked in leading-log approximation. We also present a first (albeit numerical and not yet analytic) investigation of sub-leading, single IR logarithms. Ultraviolet divergences appearing in our calculations correctly renormalize the coupling αs in the usual LPM result for leading-order g → gg.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States); Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany)
  3. Central China Normal Univ., Wuhan (China); Quaid-i-Azam Univ., Islamabad (Pakistan)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1774061
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0007984
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2020; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Perturbative QCD; Quark-Gluon Plasma

Citation Formats

Arnold, Peter, Gorda, Tyler, and Iqbal, Shahin. The LPM effect in sequential bremsstrahlung: nearly complete results for QCD. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1007/jhep11(2020)053.
Arnold, Peter, Gorda, Tyler, & Iqbal, Shahin. The LPM effect in sequential bremsstrahlung: nearly complete results for QCD. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2020)053
Arnold, Peter, Gorda, Tyler, and Iqbal, Shahin. Wed . "The LPM effect in sequential bremsstrahlung: nearly complete results for QCD". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2020)053. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1774061.
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