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We present the QCD and QED corrections to the fermion-loop contributions to light-by-light scattering, gamma gamma to gamma gamma, in the ultrarelativistic limit where the kinematic invariants are much larger than the masses of the charged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 Z. Bern , A. De Freitas , L. Dixon , A. Ghinculov , H. L. Wong

In this paper we present the master integrals necessary for the analytic calculation of the box diagrams with one electron loop (N_{F}=1) entering in the 2-loop (\alpha^3) QED virtual corrections to the Bhabha scattering amplitude of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Bonciani , A. Ferroglia , P. Mastrolia , E. Remiddi , J. J. van der Bij

We describe the details of the evaluation of the two-loop radiative photonic corrections to Bhabha scattering. The role of the corrections in the high-precision luminosity determination at present and future electron-positron colliders is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Penin

In this paper we present a numerical implementation of the one-loop QED corrections to the hard-bremsstrahlung process e- e+ \to e- e+ gamma. These corrections can be included in the Monte Carlo event generators employed for simulating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-22 Stefano Actis , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Giovanni Ossola

We report on recent results on the two-mass corrections for massive operator matrix elements at 2- and 3-loop orders in QCD. These corrections form the building blocks of the variable flavor number scheme. Due to the similar values of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-23 J. Ablinger , J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , A. Goedicke , C. Schneider , K. Schönwald

We evaluate, in the high-energy limit, $s\gg|t|\gg m^2\gg\lambda^2$, the sum of amplitudes corresponding to a class of Feynman diagrams describing two-loop virtual photonic corrections to Bhabha scattering. The diagrams considered are box…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Göran Fäldt , Per Osland

We analytically evaluate the master integrals for the second type of planar contributions to the massive two-loop Bhabha scattering in QED using differential equa- tions with canonical bases. We obtain results in terms of multiple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Claude Duhr , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Lorenzo Tancredi

We present the analytic and compact two-loop helicity amplitudes for QCD and QED corrections to the light-by-light scattering process with massive internal fermions. We express the master integrals either in terms of multiple polylogarithms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Ajjath A H , Ekta Chaubey , Hua-Sheng Shao

We overview the general status of higher order corrections to Bhabha scattering and review recent progress in the determination of the two-loop virtual corrections. Quite recently, they were derived from combining a massless calculation and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Czakon , J. Gluza , T. Riemann

One- and two-dimensional harmonic polylogarithms, HPLs and GPLs, appear in calculations of multi-loop integrals. We discuss them in the context of analytical solutions for two-loop master integrals in the case of massive Bhabha scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Czakon , J. Gluza , T. Riemann

A survey is given on the new 2- and 3-loop results for the heavy flavor contributions to deep-inelastic scattering in the unpolarized and the polarized case. We also discuss related new mathematical aspects applied in these calculations.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-21 J. Ablinger , J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , M. Saragnese , C. Schneider , K. Schönwald

The cross-section of (quasi-)elastic large-angle electron-positron scattering at high energies is calculated. Radiative corrections of the orders O(\alpha^2 L^2) and O(\alpha^2 L), besides pure two-loop box contributions, are explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. B. Arbuzov , E. A. Kuraev , B. G. Shaikhatdenov

We evaluate analytically the master integrals for one of two types of planar families contributing to massive two-loop Bhabha scattering in QED. As in our previous paper, we apply a recently suggested new strategy to solve differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Johannes M. Henn , Vladimir A. Smirnov

The experimental precision that will be reached at the next generation of colliders makes it indispensable to improve theoretical predictions significantly. Bhabha scattering (e^+ e^- \to e^+ e^-) is one of the prime processes calling for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Fleischer , T. Riemann , O. V. Tarasov , A. Werthenbach

The 3-loop heavy flavor corrections to deep-inelastic scattering are essential for consistent next-to-next-to-leading order QCD analyses. We report on the present status of the calculation of these corrections at large virtualities $Q^2$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , C. Schneider

Recently, we evaluated the virtual cross-section for Bhabha scattering in pure QED, up to corrections of order alpha^4 (N_F =1). This calculation is valid for arbitrary values of the squared center of mass energy s and momentum transfer t;…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Bonciani , A. Ferroglia , P. Mastrolia , E. Remiddi , J. J. van der Bij

All scalar master integrals (MIs) for massive 2-loop QED Bhabha scattering are identified. The 2- and 3-point MIs have been calculated in terms of harmonic polylogarithms with the differential equation method. The calculation of 4-point MIs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Czakon , J. Gluza , T. Riemann

Theoretical predictions for Bhabha scattering observables are presented including complete one-loop electroweak radiative corrections. A longitudinal polarization of the initial beams is taken into account. Numerical results for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-11 D. Bardin , A. Arbuzov , S. Bondarenko , Ya. Dydyshka , L. Kalinovskaya , L. Rumyantsev , R. Sadykov

We present the analytic expressions of the three-loop virtual corrections to the helicity amplitudes of 2 -> 2 four-fermion scattering processes in massless QED. The contributing Feynman diagrams are grouped into integrand families…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Giulio Crisanti , Thomas Dave , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Jonathan Ronca , Sid Smith , William J. Torres Bobadilla

The $O(\alpha^2\log(Q^2/m_e^2))$ leptonic QED corrections to unpolarized deeply inelastic electron-nucleon scattering are calculated in the mixed variables.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Blümlein , H. Kawamura