Two-loop QED radiative corrections to the decay ^0 e^+e^-: the virtual corrections and soft-photon bremsstrahlung

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2011)122zbMATH Open1303.81247arXiv1106.5956MaRDI QIDQ489505FDOQ489505

Jirí Novotný, Petr Vasko

Publication date: 20 January 2015

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is devoted to the two-loop QED radiative corrections to the decay pi0 -> e+ e-. We compute the virtual corrections without using any approximation and we take into account all the relevant graphs with the inclusion of those omitted in the previous approximative calculations. The bremsstrahlung is then treated within the soft photon approximation. We concentrate on the technical aspects of the calculation and discuss in detail the UV renormalization and the treatment of IR divergences within the dimensional regularization. As a result we obtain the O(alpha^3 p^2) contribution in closed analytic form. We compare the exact two-loop results with existing approximative calculations of QED corrections and find significant disagreement in the kinematical region relevant for the KTeV experiment.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5956

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zbMATH Keywords

chiral LagrangiansNLO computations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Quantum scattering theory (81U99) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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• \( \mathcal{O}\left( {{\alpha_s}{v^2}} \right) \) correction to pseudoscalar quarkonium decay to two photons

Uses Software

• HPL
• AIR

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