Single soft gluon emission at two loops

Abstract

A bstract We study the single soft-gluon current at two loops with two energetic partons in massless perturbative QCD, which describes, for example, the soft limit of the two-loop amplitude for gg → Hg . The results are presented as Laurent expansions in ϵ in D = 4 − 2 ϵ spacetime dimension. We calculate the expansion to order ϵ 2 analytically, which is a necessary ingredient for Higgs production at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in the soft-virtual approximation. We also give two-loop results of the single soft-gluon current in $ \mathcal{N}=4 $ Super-Yang-Mills theory, and find that it has uniform transcendentality. By iteration relation of splitting amplitudes, our calculations can determine the three-loop single soft-gluon current to order ϵ 0 in $ \mathcal{N}=4 $ Super-Yang-Mills theory in the limit of large N c .