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Report number CERN-TH-2526
Title Mass singularities and coherent states in gauge theories
Author(s) Curci, G ; Greco, Mario
Affiliation (CERN) ; (INFN Frascati)
Publication 1978
Imprint 13 Jul 1978
Number of pages 11
In: Phys. Lett. B 79 (1978) pp.406-410
In: Coherent states in gauge theories and applications in collider physics, pp.93-97
DOI 10.1016/0370-2693(78)90393-3 (publication 1978)
10.1142/9789811213908_0009 (publication 2019)
Subject category Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract The problem of mass singularities is studied using the formalism of coherent states. The introduction of new states which account for both soft and hard radiation effects provides one with matrix elements which are free from infra-red and mass singularities at the leading logarithmic approximation. In QED our results coincide with those obtained from the renormalization group equations. The generalization to QCD agrees with perturbative calculations and provides a simple framework for evaluating the finite corrections to hard processes.

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