Contributor info: Ms Niamh Maher

Niamh Maher, Giulio Falcioni, Einan Gardi, Calum Milloy, Leonardo Vernazza

SciPost Phys. Proc. 7, 013 (2022) · published 20 June 2022 | Toggle abstract · pdf

The soft anomalous dimension governs the infrared divergences of scattering amplitudes in general kinematics to all orders in perturbation theory. By comparing the recent Regge-limit results for $2\to2$ scattering (through Next-to-Next-to-Leading Logarithms) in full colour to a general form for the soft anomalous dimension at four loops we derive powerful constraints on its kinematic dependence, opening the way for a bootstrap-based determination.

G. Falcioni, E. Gardi, N. Maher, C. Milloy, L. Vernazza

SciPost Phys. Proc. 7, 007 (2022) · published 20 June 2022 | Toggle abstract · pdf

We review recent progress on the calculation of scattering amplitudes in the high-energy limit. We start by illustrating the shockwave formalism, which allows one to calculate amplitudes as iterated solutions of rapidity evolution equations. We then focus on our recent results regarding 2 -> 2 parton scattering. We present the calculation of the imaginary part of the amplitude, at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy in the high-energy logarithms, formally to all orders, and in practice to 13 loops. We then discuss the computation of the real part of the amplitude at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy and through four loops. Both computations are carried in full colour, and provide new insight into the analytic structure of scattering amplitudes and their infrared singularity structure.