Collinear Factorization Violation and Reggeization

Aditya Pathak (DESY Hamburg)

Aug 05. 2026, 10:00 — 10:40

In this talk I will describe my recent work https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14259 where we derived an all-order soft-collinear subgraph factorization in the space-like collinear limits of amplitudes for single gluon pinched in the Glauber region. This factorization is unique since unlike all the applications of Glauber SCET (that have so far focused exclusively in the forward regime) the momentum transfer in this case is constrained to be Glauber-like not via external (forward) kinematics, but through pinching in the loop-momentum space. Achieving this factorization requires overcoming a number of problems associated with a blunt use of Glauber SCET Lagrangian with non-analytic regulators. Through this setup, I will make a precise connection between collinear factorization violation (CFV) with the Reggeization phenomenon, and I will show how the large rapidity logarithm that appears first at two-loop CFV exponentiates to high orders, benefitting from a fruitful cross talk with the IR factorization of generic amplitudes. There are a number of exciting technical developments that made this possible, and I will summarize these along the way.

Further Information
Venue:
ESI Schrödinger Lecture Hall
Associated Event:
New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders (Thematic Programme)
Organizer(s):
Alessandro Broggio (U of Vienna)
André H. Hoang (U of Vienna)
Bianka Meçaj (LANL, Los Alamos)
Simon Plätzer (U of Graz)
Massimiliano Procura (U of Vienna)
Rudi Rahn (U of Vienna)
Malin Sjödahl (Lund U)
Iain W. Stewart (MIT, Cambridge)