We describe details of the renormalization of two-loop integrals relevant to the calculation of the nucleon mass in the framework of manifestly Lorentz-invariant chiral perturbation theory using infrared renormalization. It is shown that the renormal
ization can be performed while preserving all relevant symmetries, in particular chiral symmetry, and that renormalized diagrams respect the standard power counting rules. As an application we calculate the chiral expansion of the nucleon mass to order O(q^6).
N=1 SQCD with SU(N_c) colors and N_F flavors of light quarks is considered within the dynamical scenario which assumes that quarks can be in two different phases only. These are: a) either the HQ (heavy quark) phase where they are confined, b) or the
y are higgsed, at the appropriate values of parameters of the Lagrangian. The mass spectra of this (direct) theory and its Seibergs dual are obtained and compared, for quarks of equal or unequal masses. It is shown that in all cases when there is the additional small parameter at hand (it is 0<(3N_c-N_F)/N_F << 1 for the direct theory, or its analog 0<(2N_F-3N_c)/N_F << 1 for the dual one), the mass spectra of the direct and dual theories are parametrically different. A number of other regimes are also considered.
We present recent developments in the theory and application of IR-improved QED$otimes$QCD resummation methods, realized by MC event generator methods, for LHC and FCC physics scenarios.
The energy-energy correlation (EEC) between two detectors in $e^+e^-$ annihilation was computed analytically at leading order in QCD almost 40 years ago, and numerically at next-to-leading order (NLO) starting in the 1980s. We present the first analy
tical result for the EEC at NLO, which is remarkably simple, and facilitates analytical study of the perturbative structure of the EEC. We provide the expansion of EEC in the collinear and back-to-back regions through to next-to-leading power, information which should aid resummation in these regions.
Within the framework of the extended Nambu -- Jona-Lasinio model, we calculate the matrix element of the $tau to f_1(1285) pi^{-} u_{tau}$ decay, obtain the invariant mass distribution of the $f_1pi$ -system and estimate the branching ratio Br$(tau
to f_1 pi^{-} u_{tau})=4.0times 10^{-4}$. The two types of contributions are considered: the contact interaction, and the axial-vector $I^G(J^{PC})=1^-(1^{++})$ resonance exchange. The latter includes the ground $a_1(1260)$ state, and its first radially excited state, $a_1(1640)$. The corrections caused by the $pi -a_1$ transitions are taken into account. Our estimate is in a good agreement with the latest empirical result Br$(tau to f_1 pi^{-} u_{tau})=(3.9pm 0.5)times 10^{-4}$. The distribution function obtained for the decay $tau to f_1(1285) pi^{-} u_{tau}$ shows a clear signal of $a_1(1640)$ resonance which should be compared with future experimental data including our estimate of the decay width $Gamma (a_1(1640) to f_1 pi )=14.1,mbox{MeV}$.
This talk reviews and summarizes some of our results in [1] on XYZ- SU3 Breakings obtained from QCD Laplace Sum Rules (LSR) at next-to-next-leading order (N2LO) of perturbative (PT) theory and including next-to-leading order (NLO) SU3 breaking correc
tions and leading order (LO) contributions of dimensions d< (6 - 8) non-perturbative condensates. We conclude that the observed X states are good candidates for being 1^++ and 0^++ molecules states. We find that the SU3 breakings are relatively small for the masses (< 10 (resp. 3) %) for the charm (resp. bottom) channels while they are large (< 20 %) for the couplings. Like in the chiral limit case, the couplings decrease faster: 1/m_b^3/2 than 1/m_b^1/2 of HQET. Our approach cannot clearly separate ( within the errors ) some molecule states from the four-quark ones with the same quantum numbers.
The global R* operation is a powerful method for computing renormalisation group functions. This technique, based on the principle of infrared rearrangement, allows to express all the ultraviolet counterterms in terms of massless propagator integrals
. In this talk we present the main features of global R* and its application to the renormalisation of QCD. By combining this approach with the use of the program Forcer for the evaluation of the relevant Feynman integrals, we renormalise for the first time QCD at five loops in covariant gauges.
In this talk, we review recent developments towards the calculation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes. In particular, we discuss how the colour-kinematics duality can provide new integral relations at one-loop level via the Loop-Tree duality formal
ism. On the other hand, in order to compute scattering amplitudes at one- and two-loop level, numerically and analytically, we describe the preliminary automation of the adaptive integrand decomposition algorithm. We show preliminary results on the analytic reduction of the $mu e$-elastic scattering at one- and two-loop level.
The International Linear Collider is now proposed with a staged machine design, with the first stage at $sqrt{s}=$~250 GeV and an integrated luminosity goal of 2~ab$^{-1}$. One of the questions for the machine design is the importance of positron pol
arization. In this report, we review the impact of positron polarization on the physics goals of the $250$ GeV stage of the ILC and demonstrate that positron polarization has distinct advantages.
Models of hadronization of hard jets in QCD are often presented in terms of Feynman-graph structures that can be thought of as effective field theory approximations to dynamical non-perturbative physics in QCD. Such models can be formulated as a kind
of multiperipheral model. We obtain general constraints on such models in order for them to be self-consistent, and we relate the constraints to the space-time structure of hadronization. We show that appropriate models can be considered as implementing string-like hadronization. When the models are put in a multiperipheral form, the effective vertices and/or lines must be momentum non-conserving: they take 4-momentum from the external string-like field.
