Next-to-leading power jet functions in the small-mass limit in QED

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Authors
  • Guoxing Wang
Publication date 07-2025
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Article number 257
Volume | Issue number 2025 | 7
Number of pages 60
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract

We investigate the factorization properties of the massive fermion form factor in QED, to next-to-leading power in the fermion mass, and up to two-loop order. For this purpose we define new jet functions that have multiple connections to the hard part as operator matrix elements, and compute them to second order in the coupling. We test our factorization formula using these new jet functions in a region-based analysis and find that factorization indeed holds. We address a number of subtle aspects such as rapidity regulators and external line corrections, and we find an interesting sequence of relations among the jet functions.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2025)257 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.10810
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105011979006
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