Resummation of the QCD Perturbative Series for Hard Processes

Apr 10, 1989
30 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 327 (1989) 323-352
  • Published: 1989
Report number:
  • DFF-93/3/89

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We study the region of inhibited radiation in hard hadronic processes, as for jet cross sections and heavy flavour production near threshold. The cases of deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan annihilation are explicitly considered. A general method to exponentiate leading and next-to-leading logarithms to all orders in perturbation theory is developed. A complete formula for the large N -moments is given and shown to agree with previous two-loop calculations. The resummation procedure suggests how to connect the perturbative and nonperturbative regions. The natural limit within the perturbative phase is shown to be the intrinsic transverse momentum.
  • hadron hadron: interaction
  • lepton: hadroproduction
  • lepton: pair production
  • Drell-Yan process
  • lepton hadron: deep inelastic scattering
  • model: hard scattering
  • gluon: radiation
  • jet: production
  • heavy quark
  • quark: production