Thursday, September 27, 2012

1209.5798 (Alexander Mitov et al.)

Final state interactions in single- and multi-particle inclusive cross
sections for hadronic collisions
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Alexander Mitov, George Sterman
We study the role of low momentum transfer (soft) interactions between high-transverse momentum heavy particles and beam remnants (spectators) in hadronic collisions. Such final-state interactions are power suppressed for single-particle inclusive cross sections whenever that particle is accompanied by a recoiling high-p_T partner whose momentum is not fixed. An example is the single-top inclusive cross section in top pair production. Final-state soft interactions in multi-particle inclusive cross sections, including transverse momentum distributions, however, produce leading power corrections in the absence of hard recoiling radiation. Nonperturbative corrections due to scattering from spectators are generically suppressed by powers of \Lambda/p'_T, where \Lambda is a hadronic scale, and p'_T is the largest transverse momentum of radiation recoiling against the particles whose momenta are observed.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5798

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