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Quark-Gluon Antenna Functions from Neutralino Decay
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 31 Jan 2005 · 28 references
Pith's verdict: A clean methodological demonstration — the Majorana colour-flow argument plus a real NLO pole cancellation — but the antenna functions themselves live in a paper still in preparation, and one NNLO identification is asserted rather than shown.
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The paper
The paper claims
Quark-gluon antenna functions, until now assembled by hand from their limiting behaviour, can instead be derived systematically from the colour-ordered matrix elements of a neutralino decaying into a gluino plus partons.
The reading
What carries the argument
The antenna function: a process-independent object that reproduces all soft and collinear limits of unresolved parton emission between two colour-connected hard partons, and is simple enough to integrate analytically over the appropriate phase space. The paper's machinery is the effective Lagrangian $L_{int} = i eta, psi_bar_{gluino}^a sigma^{mu nu} psi_{neutralino} F^a_{mu nu}$, which couples the neutralino to the gluon field strength with an inverse-mass coupling, together with the colour-flow rewriting that turns the gluino into a simultaneous quark and antiquark line. The verification machinery is Catani's infrared singularity operators $I^{(1)}_{qg}$ and their two-loop extensions, which supply the predicted pole structure against which the neutralino matrix elements are checked after integration over dipole and tripole phase space.
Extended reading notes
Core claim
The central claim is that quark-gluon antenna functions can be derived rather than constructed, using the colour-ordered matrix elements of neutralino decay into a gluino plus partons. The mechanism is the Majorana nature of the gluino: after the amplitude is contracted with $1/2$-normalised colour generators, the gluino carries both a quark and an antiquark colour line, so the leading-order process contains two colour-connected antennae, one quark-gluon and one antiquark-gluon, exactly the structure required. The authors then check the claim by computing the infrared pole structure of the neutralino matrix elements and comparing it with what is predicted for radiation off a quark-gluon antenna. At NLO, the sum of the three-parton contributions $T^1_{1/2 gluino ggg}$ and $T^1_{1/2 gluino q qbar}$ cancels the poles of the one-loop two-parton rate, and the residue matches $4,Re I^{(1)}_{qg}$ times the tree-level normalisation, with the factor four counting the two antennae. At NNLO, the sum of the one-loop three-parton and tree-level four-parton contributions reproduces the pole structure predicted by the two-loop infrared singularity operators, including the $beta_0$ and $K$ terms and a process-dependent constant $H^{(2)}$ that the authors decompose into colour structures and relate to the known constants of two-loop four-parton matrix elements.
Load-bearing premise
The matching works only after colour factors are adjusted and, at NNLO, after a term in the gluino constant $H^{(2)}$ is identified with the contribution from final states containing two identical-flavour quark-antiquark pairs and subtracted; the paper asserts that identification rather than deriving it, so if it is wrong the NNLO pole agreement does not hold.
Editorial extensions
If this is right
- Quark-gluon antenna functions at NLO and NNLO can be read off from a single physical process instead of being assembled limit by limit, which removes a bottleneck in extending antenna subtraction to the colour factors left out of the earlier $alpha_s^3 C_F$ calculation of $e^+e^- to 3$ jets.
- The same logic closes a gap in a programme: quark-antiquark antennae come from virtual-photon decay, quark-gluon antennae from neutralino decay, and gluon-gluon antennae from Higgs decay through the effective coupling to the gluonic field strength, so every QCD antenna has a physical parent process.
- Because the derivation is systematic rather than constructive, it can in principle be continued to higher orders, where the limit-inspection procedure was not expected to survive.
- The matrix elements are given for decay kinematics, but the authors note they can be analytically continued to production and scattering kinematics, which is what collider observables with initial-state partons require.
Reading between the lines
- The paper's real structural point is that colour ordering plus a Majorana fermion is a way of manufacturing any desired pair of colour-connected legs from a single external particle; the neutralino is one instance of a general trick, and one could ask which other effective couplings buy which antenna types.
- If the derivation holds, antenna subtraction stops being a collection of separately validated objects and becomes a single family indexed by the hard-parton pair, which would make the subtraction terms for a general NNLO process assemblable rather than bespoke.
- The agreement is checked at the level of pole coefficients after phase-space integration, not diagram by diagram; a reader wanting independent confidence would look for a direct comparison of the unintegrated colour-ordered amplitudes with the known QCD ones in each singular limit.
Original abstract
The computation of exclusive QCD jet observables at higher orders requires a method for the subtraction of infrared singular configurations arising from multiple radiation of real partons. One commonly used method at next-to-leading order (NLO) is based on the antenna factorization of colour-ordered matrix elements, and uses antenna functions to subtract the real radiation singularities. Up to now, NLO antenna functions could be derived in a systematic manner only for hard quark-antiquark pairs, while the gluon-gluon and quark-gluon antenna functions were constructed from their limiting behaviour. In this paper, we show that antenna functions for hard quark-gluon pairs can be systematically derived from an effective Lagrangian describing heavy neutralino decay. The infrared structure of the colour-ordered neutralino decay matrix elements at NLO and NNLO is shown to agree with the structure observed for parton radiation off a quark-gluon antenna.
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The abstract, sentence by sentence
The computation of exclusive QCD jet observables at higher orders requires a method for the subtraction of infrared singular configurations arising from multiple radiation of real partons. One commonly used method at next-to-leading order (NLO) is based on the antenna factorization of colour-ordered matrix elements, and uses antenna functions to subtract the real radiation singularities. Up to now, NLO antenna functions could be derived in a systematic manner only for hard quark-antiquark pairs, while the gluon-gluon and quark-gluon antenna functions were constructed from their limiting behaviour. In this paper, we show that antenna functions for hard quark-gluon pairs can be systematically derived from an effective Lagrangian describing heavy neutralino decay. The infrared structure of the colour-ordered neutralino decay matrix elements at NLO and NNLO is shown to agree with the structure observed for parton radiation off a quark-gluon antenna.
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| s0 | The computation of exclusive QCD jet observables at higher orders requires a method for the subtraction of infrared singular configurations arising from multiple radiation of real partons. | background 1.00 | 0.05 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | One commonly used method at next-to-leading order (NLO) is based on the antenna factorization of colour-ordered matrix elements, and uses antenna functions to subtract the real radiation singularities. | background 0.99 | 0.04 | 0.03 | asserted 0.99 |
| s2 | Up to now, NLO antenna functions could be derived in a systematic manner only for hard quark-antiquark pairs, while the gluon-gluon and quark-gluon antenna functions were constructed from their limiting behaviour. | gap 0.99 | 0.05 | 0.03 | hedged possibility 0.64 |
| s3 | In this paper, we show that antenna functions for hard quark-gluon pairs can be systematically derived from an effective Lagrangian describing heavy neutralino decay. | contribution 1.00 | 0.97 | 0.88 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | The infrared structure of the colour-ordered neutralino decay matrix elements at NLO and NNLO is shown to agree with the structure observed for parton radiation off a quark-gluon antenna. | result 0.98 | 0.91 | 0.28 | asserted 1.00 |
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How the literature uses it
48 arXiv papers cite this in 93 sentences
Papers citing it · 37 sentences without a confident label
Contests it 5 papers
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As mentioned earlier, the original NNLO antenna functions derived in Refs. [ref] do not obey all of these requirements, as they typically violate (some of) these principles.
Idealised Antenna Functions for Higher Order QCD Calculations · Generic Design Principles · contest 0.85
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From our explicit calculation, we find that in order to obtain the quoted infrared structure of [ref] , one would need to consider a different leading-colour term for the two-loop matrix element: [equation] to effectively reabsorb the infrared poles which are removed in the three- and four-particle final states.
Radiation from a gluon-gluino colour-singlet dipole at N$^3$LO · Applications in higher-order QCD calculations · contest 0.78
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We wish to emphasise again that the original NNLO antenna functions derived in [ref] do not obey these requirements, as they typically violate (some of) these principles, as alluded to above.
A general algorithm to build real-radiation antenna functions for higher-order calculations · Design principles · contest 0.81
Builds on it 2 papers
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In this paper, we extended the computation presented in [ref] to higher perturbative order by computing the QCD corrections to the decay of a neutralino to gluinos and partons at $𝒪(α_s^3)$.
Radiation from a gluon-gluino colour-singlet dipole at N$^3$LO · Conclusions · 1.00
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We plan to perform an analogous calculation [ref] for the decay of a neutralino into a gluino and a gluon [ref] , which allows for the extraction of quark-gluon antenna functions.
N$^3$LO Antenna Functions for Final-State Radiation · Conclusions and outlook · 0.88
Uses its method or tool 15 papers
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In this work, we employ the calculation of Ref. [ref] based on the antenna subtraction formalism [ref] to provide NNLO-accurate QCD predictions for the distributions of the angular coefficients.
Precise predictions for the angular coefficients in Z-boson production at the LHC · Numerical predictions · 0.99
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In this work, we follow the strategy of [ref] to extract the quark-gluon antenna functions from the decay of a neutralino into a gluino and a gluon.
Radiation from a gluon-gluino colour-singlet dipole at N$^3$LO · Introduction · 0.98
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We will follow the NNLO antenna subtraction method which has been fully developed for the production of massless partons in electron-positron annihilation [ref] , leading to the successful description of the infrared structure of three-jet events at NNLO [ref] and the subsequent numerical calculation of the NNLO corrections to event shape distributions [ref] , the moments of event shapes [ref] and jet rates [ref] .
Real-Virtual corrections for gluon scattering at NNLO · Introduction · 0.84
Compares with it 5 papers
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In implementation we specify the subtraction formulas for colour-singlet and colour-singlet+jet processes and provide numerical results for $Z$ and $Z$+jet using $N$-jettiness subtractions in combination with the P2B method, comparing our results to [ref] .
NNLO predictions with nonlocal subtractions and fiducial power corrections in GENEVA · Introduction · 0.98
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Similarly, for the three-quark antenna, we find [equation] which is to be compared with $E$ given in Eq. (4.9) of Ref. [ref] which contains terms that do not contribute to the quark-antiquark collinear limit starting at $^0$.
A general algorithm to build real-radiation antenna functions for higher-order calculations · Quark-gluon antennae · 1.00
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Similarly, for the three-quark antenna, we find [equation] which is to be compared with $E$ given in Eq. (4.9) of Ref. [ref] , which contains terms that do not contribute to the quark-antiquark collinear limit starting at $^0$.
Idealised Antenna Functions for Higher Order QCD Calculations · Quark-Gluon Antennae · 1.00
Cites it as background 19 papers
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It was first proposed for perturbative QCD calculations with massless partons in electron-positron annihilation in Refs. [ref] .
Idealised Antenna Functions for Higher Order QCD Calculations · Introduction to Antenna Subtraction · 0.95
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It was first proposed for perturbative QCD calculations with massless partons in electron-positron annihilation in Refs. [ref] .
A general algorithm to build real-radiation antenna functions for higher-order calculations · Introduction · 0.93
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In recent years a lot of effort has been devoted to the extension of the subtraction method to the computation of radiative corrections at the NNLO accuracy [ref] .
Subtraction with hadronic initial states at NLO: an NNLO-compatible scheme · Introduction · 0.97
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