Summing Sudakov logarithms inin effective field theory
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- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 63 (1) , 014006
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.63.014006
Abstract
We construct an effective field theory valid for processes in which highly energetic light-like particles interact with collinear and soft degrees of freedom, using the decay near the end point of the photon spectrum, as an example. Below the scale both soft and collinear degrees of freedom are included in the effective theory, while below the scale where is the light cone momentum fraction of the b quark in the B meson, we match onto a theory of bilocal operators. We show that at one loop large logarithms cancel in the matching conditions, and that we recover the well-known renormalization group equations that sum leading Sudakov logarithms.
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