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Soft-Photon Contribution into Two-Photon Exchange Corrections for Azimuthal Asymmetries of SIDIS

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-04-25 v1

Abstract

It is demonstrated that two-photon exchange (TPE) corrections to the cross-section of unpolarized semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) generate azimuthal-dependent terms and the corresponding cos(nϕ)\braket{{\cos{(n\phi)}}} moments. A quark-diquark model of a nucleon was used in the calculations along with a soft-photon approximation. The infrared divergences in the intermediate steps of calculation are regularized with the fictitious photon mass that cancels out in the final result when the soft-photon bremsstrahlung process and interference terms are added. The calculations employ Mathematica ``LoopTools" package to evaluate the loop integrals. TPE corrections are analyzed in the kinematics of planned experiments at Jefferson Lab.

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@article{arxiv.2504.17123,
  title  = {Soft-Photon Contribution into Two-Photon Exchange Corrections for Azimuthal Asymmetries of SIDIS},
  author = {Stinson Lee and Andrei Afanasev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.17123},
  year   = {2025}
}

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8 pages, 9 figures