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ABSTRACT: We investigate tree-level five-point amplitudes in scalar-QCD expressed in
terms of Sudakov variables and find the equivalent "gravitational" counterparts
using the color-kinematics duality proposed by Bern, Carrasco, and Johannson.
Taking the multi-Regge limit in the gravitational amplitudes, we show that
those pieces in the coupling of two reggeized gravitons to one on-shell
graviton directly stemming from the double copy of the vertex for two reggeized
gluons to one on-shell gluon are universal and properly reproduced by the
duality.
12/2012;
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ABSTRACT: The five-point amplitude for the scattering of two distinct scalars with the
emission of one graviton in the final state is calculated in exact kinematics
for Einstein-Hilbert gravity. The result, which satisfies the Steinmann
relations, is expressed in Sudakov variables, finding that it corresponds to
the sum of two gauge invariant contributions written in terms of a new two
scalar - two graviton effective vertex. A similar calculation is carried out in
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) for the scattering of two distinct quarks with one
extra gluon in the final state. The effective vertices which appear in both
cases are then evaluated in the multi-Regge limit reproducing the well-known
result obtained by Lipatov where the Einstein-Hilbert graviton emission vertex
can be written as the product of two QCD gluon emission vertices, up to
corrections to preserve the Steinmann relations.
12/2011;
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ABSTRACT: We study the formation of marginally trapped surfaces in the head-on collision of two shock waves both in anti-de Sitter and Minkowski space-time in various dimensions as a function of the spread of the energy density in transverse space. For D=4 and D=5 it is shown that there exists a critical value of this spread above which no solution to the trapped surface equation is found. In four dimensions the trapped surface at criticality has a finite size, whereas in five the critical size vanishes. In both cases we find scaling relations characterized by critical exponents. Finally, when D>5 there is always a solution to the trapped surface equation for any transverse spread.
12/2008;
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ABSTRACT: In this contribution we discuss the inclusive production of jets in central regions of rapidity in the context of $k_T$-factorization at next-to-leading order (NLO). We work in the Regge limit of QCD and use the NLO BFKL results. A jet cone definition is proposed together with a phase-space separation into multi-Regge and quasi-multi-Regge kinematics. We discuss scattering of highly virtual photons, with a symmetric energy scale to separate the impact factors from the gluon Green's function, and hadron-hadron collisions, with a non-symmetric scale choice.
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ABSTRACT: The inclusive production of jets in the central region of rapidity is studied in $k_T$-factorization at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD perturbation theory. Calculations are performed in the Regge limit making use of the NLO BFKL results. A jet cone definition is introduced and a proper phase--space separation into multi-Regge and quasi-multi-Regge kinematic regions is carried out. Two situations are discussed: scattering of highly virtual photons, which requires a symmetric energy scale to separate the impact factors from the gluon Green's function, and hadron-hadron collisions, where a non--symmetric scale choice is needed.
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ABSTRACT: We study the possible holographic connection between the Regge limit in QCD and critical gravitational collapse of a perfect fluid in higher dimensions. We begin by analyzing the problem of critical gravitational collapse of a perfect fluid in any number of dimensions and numerically compute the associated Choptuik exponent in d=5, 6 and 7 for a range of values of the speed of sound of the fluid. Using continuous self-similarity as guiding principle, a holographic correspondence between this process and the phenomenon of parton saturation in high-energy scattering in QCD is proposed. This holographic connection relates strong gravitational physics in the bulk with (nonsupersymmetric) QCD at weak coupling in four dimensions.
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ABSTRACT: In this contribution we study azimuthal angle decorrelation in inclusive dijet cross sections taking into account the next-to-leading (NLO) corrections to the BFKL kernel while keeping the jet vertices at leading order. We show how the angular decorrelation for jets with a wide relative separation in rapidity largely decreases when the NLO corrections are included.
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J. Bartels,
K Borras,
M. Diehl,
H Jung,
H Abramowicz,
J. Albacete,
Luís Alvarez-Gaumé,
J. Alvarez-Muñiz,
R. D. Ball,
K. Belov, [......],
V. V. Lyuboshitz,
Miguel Angel Vázquez-Mozo,
G. P. Vacca,
A. von Manteuffel,
M I. Vyazovsky,
S. Wallon,
G Watt,
C Weiss,
K. Werner,
B. -W. Xiao
