A treatment of hard processes sensitive to the infrared structure of QCD

Abstract We propose a modified jet evolution equation which resums large corrections to the usual leading logarithmic approximation when phase-space constraints expose the singular infrared structure of QCD. The modification, which consists simply of a rescaling of the argument of the running coupling constant, is based on perturbative arguments verified at the fourth-order level. Processes analyzed by this method include the quark (Sudakov) form factor, the large moments of structure and fragmentation functions, the asymptotic behaviour of multiplicities and the clustering of final quanta in colourless systems which occupy finite regions of (momentum and position) phase space.

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