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Title: Two-Loop Correction to Bhabha Scattering

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/784733· OSTI ID:784733

We present the two-loop virtual QED corrections to e{sup +}e{sup -} {yields} {mu}{sup +} {mu}{sup -} and Bhabha scattering in dimensional regularization. The results are expressed in terms of polylogarithms. The form of the infrared divergences agrees with previous expectations. These results are a crucial ingredient in the complete next-to-next-to-leading order QED corrections to these processes. A future application will be to reduce theoretical uncertainties associated with luminosity measurements at e{sup +}e{sup -} colliders. The calculation also tests methods that may be applied to analogous QCD processes.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
784733
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-8655; TRN: US0108553
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 23 Oct 2000
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English