Subleading Power Resummation of Rapidity Logarithms: The Energy-Energy Correlator in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM

TL;DR

This paper develops a formalism to resum subleading power rapidity logarithms using renormalization group equations involving new operators, demonstrated through the Energy-Energy Correlator in $ =4$ SYM, with results matching perturbative calculations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to resum subleading power rapidity logarithms via operator mixing and renormalization group equations, including the concept of 'rapidity identity operators.'

Findings

Derived and solved RG equations for subleading power logarithms.

Achieved perfect agreement with $ ext{O}( ext{α}_s^3)$ perturbative results.

Expressed the resummed result in terms of Dawson's integral, called 'Dawson's Sudakov'.

Abstract

We derive and solve renormalization group equations that allow for the resummation of subleading power rapidity logarithms. Our equations involve operator mixing into a new class of operators, which we term the "rapidity identity operators", that will generically appear at subleading power in problems involving both rapidity and virtuality scales. To illustrate our formalism, we analytically solve these equations to resum the power suppressed logarithms appearing in the back-to-back (double light cone) limit of the Energy-Energy Correlator (EEC) in $\mathcal{N}$=4 super-Yang-Mills. These logarithms can also be extracted to $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3)$ from a recent perturbative calculation, and we find perfect agreement to this order. Instead of the standard Sudakov exponential, our resummed result for the subleading power logarithms is expressed in terms of Dawson's integral, with an argument related to the cusp anomalous dimension. We call this functional form "Dawson's Sudakov". Our formalism is widely applicable for the resummation of subleading power rapidity logarithms in other more phenomenologically relevant observables, such as the EEC in QCD, the $p_T$ spectrum for color singlet boson production at hadron colliders, and the resummation of power suppressed logarithms in the Regge limit.