The double fermionic contribution to the four-loop quark-to-gluon splitting function

Author:

G. Falcioni, F. Herzog, S. Moch, J. Vermaseren, A. Vogt

Keyword:

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

journal:

ZU-TH 62/23, DESY 23-146, Nikhef 2023-015, LTH 1353

date:

2023-10-01 16:00:00

Abstract

We have computed the first 30 even-N moments for the double fermionic (nf^2) part of the quark-to-gluon splitting function P_{gq} at the fourth order of perturbative QCD via the renormalization of off-shell operator matrix elements. From these results we have determined the all-N form, and hence the exact x-space expression, using systems of Diophantine equations for its coefficients. The dominant and subdominant leading small-x nf^2 contributions to P_{gq}^(3)(x) are of the form 1/x ln x and ln^4 x, respectively; the leading large-x term is ln^4 (1-x). The coefficient of the first of these is new, the other two agree with results obtained before and thus provide checks of our results.

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