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 αs2 and electroweak corrections are known to order α. The next important step for a better theoretical understanding is the complete calculation of the mixed QCD-EW corrections of order αsα. In my talk, I report on the first complete calculation of the virtual two-loop corrections of order ααs to the lepton-pair production cross section. The calculation is carried out analytically using tensor reduction, integration-by-parts relations and the method of differential equations. We validate a previous calculation of the subset of mixed QCD-QED corrections and show how the jet and soft functions of that reference can be used to subtract the infrared divergences of the complete mixed QCD-electroweak virtual corrections.
@article{arxiv.1912.09110,
title = {Mixed QCD-EW two-loop corrections to Drell-Yan production},
author = {Matthias Heller and Andreas von Manteuffel and Robert M. Schabinger and Hubert Spiesberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.09110},
year = {2019}
}