Recent results within Lipatov's high energy effective action
We review Lipatov’s high energy effective action and show that it is a useful computational tool to calculate QCD scattering amplitudes in the high energy limit. We explain in some detail our recent work where a novel regularization and subtraction procedure has been proposed that allows to extend the use of this effective action beyond tree level. As explicit results we discuss the derivation of forward jet vertices, for jet events with and without rapidity gaps.
Single bottom quark production in kT-factorisation
Journal of High Energy Physics 2015.9 (2015): 123 reproduced by permission of Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Computing the full two-loop gluon Regge trajectory within Lipatov's high energy effective action
We discuss computational details of our recent result, namely, the first derivation of the two-loop gluon Regge trajectory within the framework of Lipatov's high energy effective action. In particular, we elaborate on the direct evaluation of Feynman two-loop diagrams by using the Mellin-Barnes representations technique. Our result is in precise agreement with previous computations in the literature, providing this way a highly non-trivial test of the effective action and the proposed subtraction and renormalization scheme combined with our approach for the treatment of the loop diagrams.