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Soft-gluon effective coupling for massive quarks

Luca Bason·Simone Devoto·Andrea Ghira·Simone Marzani·Pier Francesco Monni·Giovanni Ridolfi
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We present a generalisation of the soft-gluon physical coupling, defined in terms of the strength of soft radiation from a hard dipole, to massive hard emitters. We derive the relation between this coupling and the $\overline{\rm MS}$ coupling through two loops, encompassing all configurations in which both, one, or neither of the hard emitters are massive. We show that the presence of massive emitters introduces additional freedom in the definition of the physical coupling scheme, which we characterise at two-loop order. Our results provide new ingredients for precision QCD resummation in processes involving heavy quarks and for the development of higher-order parton-shower algorithms.

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Luca Bason, Simone Devoto, Andrea Ghira, Simone Marzani, Pier Francesco Monni, Giovanni Ridolfi. 2026-11-05. Soft-gluon effective coupling for massive quarks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08573

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