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Mixed QCD-EW two-loop corrections to Drell-Yan production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-12-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The Drell-Yan production of charged lepton pairs is one of the key processes measured at hadron colliders. The QCD corrections to the cross section are known to order αs2\alpha_s^2 and electroweak corrections are known to order α\alpha. The next important step for a better theoretical understanding is the complete calculation of the mixed QCD-EW corrections of order αsα\alpha_s\alpha. In my talk, I report on the first complete calculation of the virtual two-loop corrections of order ααs\alpha\alpha_s to the lepton-pair production cross section. The calculation is carried out analytically using tensor reduction, integration-by-parts relations and the method of differential equations. We validate a previous calculation of the subset of mixed QCD-QED corrections and show how the jet and soft functions of that reference can be used to subtract the infrared divergences of the complete mixed QCD-electroweak virtual corrections.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1912.09110,
  title  = {Mixed QCD-EW two-loop corrections to Drell-Yan production},
  author = {Matthias Heller and Andreas von Manteuffel and Robert M. Schabinger and Hubert Spiesberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.09110},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

9 pages, 1 figure, talk given at RADCOR19

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