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I discuss radiative corrections due to the emission of photons from quarks which contribute to deep inelastic lepton--nucleon scattering as well as to $pp$ collisions at high energies. These corrections are dominated by quark-mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 H. Spiesberger

Virtual fermionic N_f = 1 and N_f = 2 contributions to Bhabha scattering are combined with realistic real corrections at next-to-next-to-leading order in QED. The virtual corrections are determined by the package bha_nnlo_hf, and real…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Carloni Calame , H. Czyz , J. Gluza , M. Gunia , G. Montagna , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini , T. Riemann , M. Worek

We revisit the question of the contributions of two-photon exchange with $\Delta(1232)$ excitation to the electron-proton scattering in a hadronic model. Three improvements over the previous calculations are made, namely, correct vertex…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-09-21 Hai-Qing Zhou , Shin Nan Yang

This work considers the way that quantum loop effects modify the propagation of light in curved space. The calculation of the refractive index for scalar QED is reviewed and then extended for the first time to QED with spinor particles in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-11 Timothy J. Hollowood , Graham M. Shore , Ross J. Stanley

We report on two recent results based on the evaluation of five-loop massless propagators in QCD and QED: (i) corrections of order $\alpha_s^4$ to the absorptive part of the polarization function in QCD with $n_f=3$;(ii) the five-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-08 P. A. Baikov , K. G. Chetyrkin , J. H. Kühn

We present the first calculation of the complete set of NNLO QED corrections for muon-electron scattering. This includes leptonic, non-perturbative hadronic, and photonic contributions. All fermionic corrections as well as the photonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-08 A. Broggio , T. Engel , A. Ferroglia , M. K. Mandal , P. Mastrolia , M. Rocco , J. Ronca , A. Signer , W. J. Torres Bobadilla , Y. Ulrich , M. Zoller

Hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) and light-by-light scattering (HLBL) are crucial for evaluating the Standard Model predictions concerning the muon's anomalous magnetic moment. However, direct first-principle lattice gauge theory-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-08 João Barata , Kazuki Ikeda , Swagato Mukherjee , Jonathan Raghoonanan

The Standard Model prediction of the muon $g-2$ increasingly depends on lattice QCD computations of the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP), where the isospin-breaking (IB) effects remain a significant source of uncertainty. To complement…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-07 Volodymyr Biloshytskyi , Dominik Erb , Harvey B. Meyer , Julian Parrino , Vladimir Pascalutsa

In a recent paper, we have shown that the QED nonlinear corrections imply a phase correction to the linear evolution of crossing electromagnetic waves in vacuum. Here, we provide a more complete analysis, including a full numerical solution…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniele Tommasini , Albert Ferrando , Humberto Michinel , Marcos Seco

We calculate the leptonic ${\cal O}(\alpha^2 L)$ corrections for unpolarized deeply inelastic ep scattering using mixed variables.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Johannes Blümlein , Hiroyuki Kawamura

The QED hadronic vacuum polarization function plays an important role in the determination of precision electroweak observables and of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. These contributions have been computed from data, by means of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-14 Nina M. Coyle , Carlos E. M. Wagner

The radiative corrections to elastic electron-proton scattering are analyzed in a hadronic model including the finite size of the nucleon. For initial electron energies above 8 GeV and large scattering angles, the proton vertex correction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 L. C. Maximon , J. A. Tjon

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 $\alpha_s^2$ and electroweak corrections are known to order $\alpha$. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-20 Matthias Heller , Andreas von Manteuffel , Robert M. Schabinger , Hubert Spiesberger

We numerically compute the two-loop QCD corrections to $Z\gamma$ production at the LHC mediated by light- and heavy-quark box loops. The calculation employs the pipeline of refs. arXiv:2407.18051 and arXiv:2510.18801, which performs Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Dario Kermanschah , Matilde Vicini

The paper investigates contributions of $Z$, $W$ and $\gamma$ intermediate states to the parity-violating Moller scattering asymmetry up to two-loop level. Using the Yennie--Frautschi--Suura factorization form for amplitudes, we demonstrate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-03 A. G. Aleksejevs , S. G. Barkanova , Yu. M. Bystritskiy , A. N. Ilyichev , E. A. Kuraev , V. A. Zykunov

We improve previously derived analytical estimates of hadronisation corrections to QCD jets at hadron colliders, firmly establishing at the two-loop level the link to the well-known power corrections to LEP event-shape variables. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 Mrinal Dasgupta , Yazid Delenda

We consider the radiative corrections to the impact factors of electron and photon. According to a generalized eikonal representation the e\bar e scattering amplitude at high energies and fixed momentum transfers is proportional to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 E. A. Kuraev , L. N. Lipatov , T. V. Shishkina

We examine the two-photon exchange corrections to elastic electron-proton scattering within a dispersive approach, including contributions from both Nucleon and Delta intermediate states. The dispersive analysis avoids off-shell…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-21 P. G. Blunden , W. Melnitchouk

The rigorous calculation of the vacuum-polarization screening corrections to the hyperfine splitting in Li-like bismuth is presented. The two-electron diagrams with electric and magnetic vacuum-polarization loops are evaluated to all orders…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-08-06 O. V. Andreev , D. A. Glazov , A. V. Volotka , V. M. Shabaev , G. Plunien

We compute the real part of the 2-loop vertex corrections for charmless hadronic B decays, completing the NNLO calculation of the topological tree amplitudes in QCD factorization. Among the technical aspects we show that the hard-scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-28 Guido Bell