Pulak Banerjee
Bhabha scattering at NNLO with next-to-soft stabilisation
Banerjee, Pulak; Engel, Tim; Schalch, Nicolas; Signer, Adrian; Ulrich, Yannick
Authors
Tim Engel
Nicolas Schalch
Adrian Signer
Dr Yannick Ulrich yannick.ulrich@durham.ac.uk
Academic Visitor
Abstract
A critical subject in fully differential QED calculations originates from numerical instabilities due to small fermion masses that act as regulators of collinear singularities. At next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) a major challenge is therefore to find a stable implementation of numerically delicate real-virtual matrix elements. In the case of Bhabha scattering this has so far prevented the development of a fixed-order Monte Carlo at NNLO accuracy. In this paper we present a new method for stabilising the real-virtual matrix element. It is based on the expansion for soft photon energies including the non-universal subleading term calculated with the method of regions. We have applied this method to Bhabha scattering to obtain a stable and efficient implementation within the McMule framework. We therefore present for the first time fully differential results for the photonic NNLO corrections to Bhabha scattering.
Citation
Banerjee, P., Engel, T., Schalch, N., Signer, A., & Ulrich, Y. (2021). Bhabha scattering at NNLO with next-to-soft stabilisation. Physics Letters B, 820, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136547
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 21, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 24, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2021 |
Deposit Date | Nov 15, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 15, 2021 |
Journal | Physics Letters B |
Print ISSN | 0370-2693 |
Electronic ISSN | 1873-2445 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 820 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136547 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1223144 |
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