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On the massive two-loop corrections to Bhabha scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

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 contributions with electron sub-loops. For a massive calculation, the self-energy and vertex master integrals are known, while most of the two-loop boxes are not. We demonstrate with an example that a study of systems of differential equations, combined with Mellin-Barnes representations for single masters, might open a way for their systematic calculation.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0511187,
  title  = {On the massive two-loop corrections to Bhabha scattering},
  author = {M. Czakon and J. Gluza and T. Riemann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0511187},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures, latex, Contribution to Proceedings of XXIX Conf. of Theoretical Physics: Matter to the Deepest, Ustron, Poland, 8-14 September 2005; preprint number added

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