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All-order colour structure and two-loop anomalous dimension of soft radiation in heavy-particle pair production at the LHC

arXiv:1001.4621

Abstract

We consider the factorization and resummation of soft and Coulomb gluons for pair-production processes of heavy coloured particles at hadron colliders, and discuss: the construction of a colour basis that diagonalizes the leading soft function to all orders in perturbation theory; the determination of the two-loop soft anomalous dimension needed for NNLL resummations; and a general formula that provides all logarithmically enhanced O(alpha_s^2) correction requiring as process-independent input only the one-loop hard matching coefficients.

6 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (RADCOR 2009), October 25-30 2009, Ascona, Switzerland

All-order colour structure and two-loop anomalous dimension of soft radiation in heavy-particle pair production at the LHC · wovepaper