Radiative return meets GVMD

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Main Authors: Rosàs, Pau Petit, Shekhovtsova, Olga, Bobadilla, William J. Torres
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Published: 2026
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author Rosàs, Pau Petit
Shekhovtsova, Olga
Bobadilla, William J. Torres
author_facet Rosàs, Pau Petit
Shekhovtsova, Olga
Bobadilla, William J. Torres
contents We improve the description of pion-photon interactions in the radiative return process $e^+e^-\to π^+π^-γ$ at the next-to-leading order by including the pion form factor in the Feynman rules. We present a general calculation of the new amplitudes, and provide an implementation easy to interface with any Monte Carlo generator. We incorporate this framework into the event generator $\texttt{Phokhara}$ and study several experimental configurations. Overall, we find percent-level effects appearing in angular differential cross section distributions at colliders whose centre-of-mass energies lie near the peak of the pion form factor. By contrast, total cross sections and distributions in charge-even variables show effects only at the permille level, or no visible differences at all. Finally, we compare the new predictions with KLOE measurements of the forward-backward asymmetry in order to assess the predictive power of the modifications.
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spellingShingle Radiative return meets GVMD
Rosàs, Pau Petit
Shekhovtsova, Olga
Bobadilla, William J. Torres
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
We improve the description of pion-photon interactions in the radiative return process $e^+e^-\to π^+π^-γ$ at the next-to-leading order by including the pion form factor in the Feynman rules. We present a general calculation of the new amplitudes, and provide an implementation easy to interface with any Monte Carlo generator. We incorporate this framework into the event generator $\texttt{Phokhara}$ and study several experimental configurations. Overall, we find percent-level effects appearing in angular differential cross section distributions at colliders whose centre-of-mass energies lie near the peak of the pion form factor. By contrast, total cross sections and distributions in charge-even variables show effects only at the permille level, or no visible differences at all. Finally, we compare the new predictions with KLOE measurements of the forward-backward asymmetry in order to assess the predictive power of the modifications.
title Radiative return meets GVMD
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13171