Journal
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2014)010
Keywords
Wilson; 't Hooft and Polyakov loops; Scattering Amplitudes; QCD
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- Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC)
- University of Edinburgh
- MIUR (Italy) [2010YJ2NYW]
- University of Torino
- Compagnia di San Paolo [ORTO11TPXK]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L000458/1, ST/G000522/1, ST/J000329/1, ST/J000442/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/J000329/1, ST/L000458/1, ST/J000442/1, ST/G000522/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Webs are weighted sets of Feynman diagrams which build up the logarithms of correlators of Wilson lines, and provide the ingredients for the computation of the soft anomalous dimension. We present a general analysis of multiple gluon exchange webs (MGEWs) in correlators of semi-infinite non-lightlike Wilson lines, as functions of the exponentials of the Minkowski cusp angles, alpha(ij), formed between lines i and j. We compute a range of webs in this class, connecting up to five Wilson lines through four loops, we give an all-loop result for a special class of diagrams, and we discover a new kind of relation between webs connecting different numbers of Wilson lines, based on taking collinear limits. Our results support recent conjectures, stating that the contribution of any MGEW to the soft anomalous dimension is a sum of products of polylogarithms, each depending on a single cusp angle, and such that their symbol alphabet is restricted to alpha(ij) and 1-alpha(2)(ij). Finally, we construct a simple basis of functions, defined through a one-dimensional integral representation in terms of powers of logarithms, which has all the expected analytic properties. This basis allows us to compactly express the results of all MGEWs computed so far, and we conjecture that it is sufficient for expressing all MGEWs at any loop order.
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