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First order radiative corrections to Bhabha scattering in $d$ dimensions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

The luminosity measurement at the projected International Linear e+ee^+e^- Collider ILC is planned to be performed with forward Bhabha scattering with an accuracy of the order of 10410^{-4}. A theoretical prediction of the differential cross-section has to include one-loop weak corrections, with leading higher order terms, and the complete two-loop QED corrections. Here, we present the weak part and the virtual one-loop photonic corrections. For the photonic corrections, the expansions in ϵ=(4d)/2\epsilon = (4-d)/2 are derived with inclusion of the terms of order ϵ\epsilon in order to match the two-loop accuracy. For the photonic box master integral in dd dimensions we compare several different methods of evaluation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0606210,
  title  = {First order radiative corrections to Bhabha scattering in $d$ dimensions},
  author = {J. Fleischer and J. Gluza and A. Lorca and T. Riemann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0606210},
  year   = {2009}
}

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35 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, uses feynmp.sty, references updated