6–8 May 2026
Elm Lecture Theatre
Europe/London timezone

Thomas Becher - Factorization Beyond Coherence

6 May 2026, 13:30
1h
Elm Lecture Theatre

Elm Lecture Theatre

The Nucleus Building Kings Buildings Campus University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH9 3FG

Description

Over the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that standard soft-collinear factorization does not hold for hadron-collider observables in general. This breakdown is caused by Glauber effects, which destroy strict collinear factorization and color coherence. They impact many observables: Not only do they induce Super-Leading Logarithms (SLLs) in non-global jet cross sections, but Coherence-Violating Logarithms (CVLs) affect even the simplest global event shapes. In my talk, I will show how coherence violation can be systematically analyzed and accounted for in factorization theorems based on Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, and I will derive the leading CVL for N-jettiness. I will also explain an intricate mechanism that restores PDF factorization below the lowest perturbative scale in non-global observables.

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