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QED at NNLO and beyond for precision experiments

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-09-13 v1

Abstract

Low-energy experiments allow for some of the most precise measurements in particle physics, such as g2g-2. To make the most of these experiments, theory needs to match the experimental precision. Over the last decade, this meant that even in QED next-to-next-to-leading order calculations (or even more in some cases) became necessary. McMule (Monte Carlo for MUons and other LEptons) is a framework that we have developed to obtain NNLO predictions for a number of processes, such as eμeμe\mu \to e\mu, eeeeee\to ee, and μeννˉ\mu\to e\nu\bar\nu. I will discuss some of the challenges faced when dealing with QED corrections and some possible solutions we have implemented in McMule, namely the subtraction scheme FKS^\ell, massification, and next-to-soft stabilisation. I will also demonstrate how to calculate the three-loop massification constant that will be required at N3^3LO.

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@article{arxiv.2309.06070,
  title  = {QED at NNLO and beyond for precision experiments},
  author = {Yannick Ulrich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.06070},
  year   = {2023}
}

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11 pages, 1 figure, proceedings for Radcor 2023

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