Sudakov Logarithms in Four-Fermion Electroweak Processes at High Energy

Abstract

We discuss recent results for the asymptotic behavior of fermion scattering amplitudes in the Sudakov limit. The results include next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic electroweak corrections and are used for the analysis of fermion-antifermion pair production in e+e- annihilation at high energy. The importance of the subleading logarithmic contributions is emphasized and the fermionic contributions to the Abelian form factor at two loops are discussed.

Comments: Talk at RADCOR 2002, Kloster Banz, Germany, 8-13 Sep 2002; 5 pages, 1 figure