Joint INFN-UNIMI-UNIMIB Pheno Seminars

Power up the logarithm: the large impact of 'subleading' terms

by Melissa van Beekveld

Europe/Zurich
https://fisica-unimi.zoom.us/j/91725083965?pwd=NzVJV2dzV2RWdThQMnp3SHVpUUMzdz09

https://fisica-unimi.zoom.us/j/91725083965?pwd=NzVJV2dzV2RWdThQMnp3SHVpUUMzdz09

Description

Cross-sections in perturbative QCD are plagued by large corrections from soft and collinear radiation. The most singular terms are known to be universal, which allows their resummation to all orders in the coupling, which cures the perturbative expansion of the cross-section. In this talk, I will give an introduction on how these large corrections arise, how resummation solves the issue, and whether we can expect the same universal structure for a class of next-to-singular contributions.