Towards the two-loop electroweak corrections to the Drell-Yan process: the infrared structure

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Main Authors: Armadillo, Tommaso, Devoto, Simone, Dradi, Michele, Vicini, Alessandro
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Published: 2025
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author Armadillo, Tommaso
Devoto, Simone
Dradi, Michele
Vicini, Alessandro
author_facet Armadillo, Tommaso
Devoto, Simone
Dradi, Michele
Vicini, Alessandro
contents We discuss the lepton-pair production process in Quantum Electrodynamics. We present the ultraviolet-renormalised and infrared-subtracted finite contribution of the second-order virtual corrections to the inclusive lepton-pair production cross section $u\bar u\to e^+e^-$. The results are obtained within a new computational framework, OCEANN, developed in view of the evaluation of the exact two-loop electroweak virtual corrections to high-energy scattering processes. One of the key methodological features in this approach is the representation of the scattering amplitude with arbitrary precision at every stage of the calculation. The analysis in QED allows us to address the treatment of the infrared structure of the process and it can be easily extended to the complete electroweak Standard Model case. The perfect agreement with the literature, for this subset of corrections, provides a non trivial validation of the general framework.
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spellingShingle Towards the two-loop electroweak corrections to the Drell-Yan process: the infrared structure
Armadillo, Tommaso
Devoto, Simone
Dradi, Michele
Vicini, Alessandro
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We discuss the lepton-pair production process in Quantum Electrodynamics. We present the ultraviolet-renormalised and infrared-subtracted finite contribution of the second-order virtual corrections to the inclusive lepton-pair production cross section $u\bar u\to e^+e^-$. The results are obtained within a new computational framework, OCEANN, developed in view of the evaluation of the exact two-loop electroweak virtual corrections to high-energy scattering processes. One of the key methodological features in this approach is the representation of the scattering amplitude with arbitrary precision at every stage of the calculation. The analysis in QED allows us to address the treatment of the infrared structure of the process and it can be easily extended to the complete electroweak Standard Model case. The perfect agreement with the literature, for this subset of corrections, provides a non trivial validation of the general framework.
title Towards the two-loop electroweak corrections to the Drell-Yan process: the infrared structure
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20365