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infrared and collinear safety: a standalone construct

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property of an observable, such as a jet cross section, that is insensitive to soft or collinear emissions, so perturbative QCD can predict it.

In particle physics, infrared and collinear safety refers to property of an observable, such as a jet cross section, that is insensitive to soft or collinear emissions, so perturbative QCD can predict it. This meaning comes from Sterman (1977) in Physical Review Letters.[1]

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References

Sterman, G., & Weinberg, S. (1977). Jets from Quantum Chromodynamics. Physical Review Letters, 39(23), 1436-1439. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.39.1436

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