Non-global logarithms in hadron collisions at $N_c=3$

Abstract

We calculate the rapidity gap survival probability associated with the Higgs decay and Higgs plus dijet production in proton-proton collisions by resumming the leading non-global logarithms without any approximation to the number of colors. For dijet production, depending on partonic subprocesses, the probability involves various `color multipoles', i.e., the product of 4 ($qq\to qq$) or 6 ($qg\to qg$) or 8 ($gg\to gg$) Wilson lines. We calculate all these multipoles for a fixed dijet configuration and discuss the factorization of higher multipoles into lower multipoles as well as the validity of the large-$N_c$ approximation.

Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures, 9 ancillary text files for numerical results included; v2: references added