Soft photon bremsstrahlung at next-to-leading power

Abstract

The emission of soft radiation provides a fundamental probe of the consistency of the underlying quantum field theory. Correspondingly, the measurement of the soft photon bremsstrahlung, such as the one proposed with the planned future upgrade of the ALICE experiment at the LHC, is of great interest. In this letter we explore the possibility to implement analytic techniques that have been recently developed for soft gluon resummation at Next-to-Leading-Power (NLP) in the context of the soft photon spectrum. We provide a formula for the differential cross-section with shifted kinematics that is particularly suitable for numerical implementations. We also discuss the impact of loop corrections to Low's theorem due to radiative jet functions.

arXiv comment17 pages, 2 figures. Version published in PLB. Arguments and results unchanged. Corrected typos. Added references

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