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We calculate the one-photon loop radiative corrections to the charged pion-pair production process $\pi^-\gamma\to\pi^+\pi^-\pi^-$. In the low-energy region this reaction is governed by the chiral pion-pion interaction. The pertinent set of…
We calculate the one-photon loop radiative corrections to virtual pion Compton scattering $\pi^- \gamma^* \to \pi^- \gamma$, that subprocess which determines in the one-photon exchange approximation the pion-nucleus bremsstrahlung reaction…
We calculate the one-photon loop radiative corrections to charged pion Compton scattering, $\pi^- \gamma \to \pi^- \gamma $. Ultraviolet and infrared divergencies are both treated in dimensional regularization. Analytical expressions for…
We calculate in chiral perturbation theory the double-pion photoproduction processes $\pi^-\gamma \to \pi^- \pi^0\pi^0$ and $\pi^-\gamma\to \pi^+\pi^-\pi^-$ at low energies. At leading order these reactions are governed by the chiral…
The complete one-loop QED initial state, final state and initial--final state interference corrections to the process e+e- -> pi+pi- are presented. Analytic formulae are given for the virtual and for the real photon corrections. The total…
Leading-order electromagnetic loop corrections to the one-pion-exchange potential are computed within the framework of chiral perturbation theory. These corrections generate an effective nucleon-nucleon potential, $V_{\pi \gamma}$, which…
We compute the radiative corrections to the process of two-pion production in association with a hard photon in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation by taking into account the non-perturbative structure of the pion in the one-loop calculation. For this…
We present a relativistic formulation of pion loop corrections to the coupling of photons with nucleons on the light-front. Vertex and wave function renormalization constants are computed to lowest order in the pion field, including their…
We estimate the radiative corrections of order $\alpha/\pi$ to the magnetic moments of the proton and the neutron. The photon-loop diagram of the vertex-correction type is evaluated with phenomenological nucleon vector form factors.…
We calculate the one--loop corrections to the Kroll--Ruderman low--energy theorems for charged pion photoproduction in the framework of heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. We predict the threshold S--wave multipole $E_{0+}$ to be…
We calculate in closed analytical form the one-photon loop radiative corrections to muon Compton scattering $\mu^- \gamma \to \mu^- \gamma $. Ultraviolet and infrared divergencies are both treated in dimensional regularization. Infrared…
We present a calculation of the $C$-odd radiative corrections to $e^+e^-\to \pi^+\pi^-$ in a dispersive formalism, concentrating on the leading pion-pole contribution in the virtual box diagrams. In particular, we show how the effect of a…
We report on the effect that one-loop radiative corrections to the chargino pair production cross section has on the determination of the fundamental parameters of the theory. We work in the context of electron-positron colliders with…
In view of ongoing experimental activities to determine the pion polarizabilities, we have started to recalculate the available two-loop expressions in the framework of chiral perturbation theory, because they have never been checked…
A theoretical description of photon-pair production in polarized positron-electron annihilation is presented. Complete one-loop electroweak radiative corrections are calculated taking into account the exact dependence on the electron mass.…
A reliable calculation of radiative corrections to $\tau\to\pi\pi\nu_\tau$ decays is an important prerequisite for using hadronic $\tau$ decays for a data-driven evaluation of the hadronic-vacuum-polarization contribution to the anomalous…
We consider the chiral expansion of the threshold amplitude for the reaction $\gamma p \to \pi^0 \pi^0 p$ to order ${\cal O}(M_\pi^2)$. We substantiate a claim that this photoproduction channel is significantly enhanced close to threshold…
We present a calculation of radiative pion photoproduction in the framework of covariant chiral perturbation theory with explicit $\Delta(1232)$ degrees of freedom. The analysis is performed employing the small scale expansion scheme…
We discuss the one-loop radiative corrections to the reaction e^+ e^- -> X^+_a X^-_b, for a,b=1,2 where X^+_{1,2} are the charginos of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We calculate the leading one loop radiative corrections…
We present a calculation of pion photo- and electroproduction in manifestly Lorentz-invariant baryon chiral perturbation theory up to and including order q^4. We fix the low-energy constants by fitting experimental data in all available…