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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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 N. Kaiser

A new method, based on the simulated annealing algorithm and aimed at the inverse problem in the analysis of intergalactic (interstellar) complex spectra of hydrogen and metal lines, is presented. We consider the process of line formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei A. Levshakov , Irina I. Agafonova , Wilhelm H. Kegel

Indirect imaging problems in biomedical optics generally require repeated evaluation of forward models of radiative transport, for which Monte Carlo is accurate yet computationally costly. We develop a novel approach to reduce this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Callum M. Macdonald , Simon Arridge , Samuel Powell

The recently proposed MUonE experiment at CERN aims at providing a novel determination of the leading order hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment through the study of elastic muon-electron scattering at relatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 C. M. Carloni Calame , M. Chiesa , Syed Mehedi Hasan , G. Montagna , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini

With the approaching start-up of the experiments at LHC, the urgency to quantify systematic uncertainties of the generators, used in the interpretation of the data, is becoming pressing. The PHOTOS Monte Carlo program is often used for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-15 P. Golonka , Z. Was

I report on a numerical program, which can be used to calculate any infra-red safe two-jet observable in electron-positron annihilation to next-to-next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant alpha_s. The calculation is based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefan Weinzierl

We provide a general method to construct local infrared subtraction counterterms for unresolved radiative contributions to differential cross sections, to any order in perturbation theory. We start from the factorised structure of virtual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-26 Lorenzo Magnea , Ezio Maina , Giovanni Pelliccioli , Chiara Signorile-Signorile , Paolo Torrielli , Sandro Uccirati

We construct a specific formalism for calculating the one-loop virtual corrections for standard model processes with an arbitrary number of external legs. The procedure explicitly separates the infrared and ultraviolet divergences…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 W. T. Giele , E. W. N. Glover

Construction of a QCD cascade at the NLO level requires recalculation of the splitting functions in a different manner [1]. We describe the calculation of some of the virtual contributions to the non-singlet splitting function. In order to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 O. Gituliar , S. Jadach , A. Kusina , M. Skrzypek

We present a novel technique to incorporate precision calculations from quantum chromodynamics into fully differential particle-level Monte-Carlo simulations. By minimizing an information-theoretic quantity subject to constraints, our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-19 Benoît Assi , Stefan Höche , Kyle Lee , Jesse Thaler

The QED radiative corrections to virtual Compton scattering (reaction $e p \to e p \gamma$) are calculated to first order in $\alpha_{em} \equiv e^2 / 4 \pi$. A detailed study is presented for the one-loop virtual corrections and for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 M. Vanderhaeghen , J. M. Friedrich , D. Lhuillier , D. Marchand , L. Van Hoorebeke , J. Van de Wiele

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 N. Kaiser , S. Petschauer

The structure function approach and the parton picture, developed for the theoretical description of the deep inelastic electron-proton scattering, also proved to be very effective for calculation of radiative corrections in Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-28 V. S. Fadin , R. E. Gerasimov

Compact and well defined formulae for the shadow of the virtual photon interacting with a large nucleus at small $x_{Bj}$ are given in the QCD dipole picture. Two classes of contributions are considered: (a) quasi-elastic interaction of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bialas , W. Czyz

We present a numerical scheme for calculating the first quantum corrections to the properties of static solitons. The technique is applicable to solitons of arbitrary shape, and may be used in 3+1 dimensions for multiskyrmions or other…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris Barnes , Neil Turok

Virtual photon scattering in $e^+e^-$ collisions can result in events with the electron-positron pair produced at large rapidity separation in association with hadrons. The BFKL equation resums large logarithms that dominate the cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lynne H. Orr , W. J. Stirling

This paper describes the Monte Carlo simulation developed specifically for the VCS experiments below pion threshold that have been performed at MAMI and JLab. This simulation generates events according to the (Bethe-Heitler + Born) cross…

Radiative corrections are crucial for modern high-precision physics experiments, and are an area of active research in the experimental and theoretical community. Here we provide an overview of the state of the field of radiative…

The hadronic invariant mass distribution for the process of electron-positron annihilation into a pair of charged pions accompanied by a photon radiated from the initial state has been studied for the region of DA$\Phi$NE energies. The Born…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 V. A. Khoze , M. I. Konchatnij , N. P. Merenkov , G. Pancheri , L. Trentadue , O. N. Shekhovzova

The leptonic tensor for the process $e^+ e^- \to \gamma+\gamma^*$, which describes the next-to-leading order virtual and soft QED corrections to initial state radiation in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation with emission of an extra virtual photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 German Rodrigo , Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder , Marc Guilleaume , Johann H. Kuhn