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Low-energy $e^+\,e^-\to\gamma\,\gamma$ at NNLO in QED

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-02-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present a fully differential computation of e+eγγe^+\,e^-\to\gamma\,\gamma at next-to-next-to-leading order in QED. The process has been implemented into McMule, completing its set of next-to-next-to-leading-order calculations for the most important 222 \to 2 processes. The results allow for generic applications to electron-positron colliders with centre-of-mass energies up to a few GeV, particularly for luminosity measurements.

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@article{arxiv.2512.22929,
  title  = {Low-energy $e^+\,e^-\to\gamma\,\gamma$ at NNLO in QED},
  author = {Tim Engel and Marco Rocco and Adrian Signer and Yannick Ulrich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22929},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures; accepted by PLB