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A subtraction scheme for massive QED

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-01-20 v2

Abstract

We present an extension of the FKS subtraction scheme beyond next-to-leading order to deal with soft singularities in fully differential calculations within QED with massive fermions. After a detailed discussion of the next-to-next-to-leading order case, we show how to extend the scheme to even higher orders in perturbation theory. As an application we discuss the computation of the next-to-next-to-leading order QED corrections to the muon decay and present differential results with full electron mass dependence.

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@article{arxiv.1909.10244,
  title  = {A subtraction scheme for massive QED},
  author = {T. Engel and A. Signer and Y. Ulrich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.10244},
  year   = {2020}
}

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25 pages, 6 figures, published version

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