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arxiv: 1606.02887 · v3 · pith:GK2WDMS7new · submitted 2016-06-09 · ✦ hep-ph

Two-loop QED corrections to the Altarelli-Parisi splitting functions

classification ✦ hep-ph
keywords correctionsfunctionssplittingaltarelli-parisitwo-loopabelianizationalgorithmicanalysis
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We compute the two-loop QED corrections to the Altarelli-Parisi (AP) splitting functions by using a deconstructive algorithmic Abelianization of the well-known NLO QCD corrections. We present explicit results for the full set of splitting kernels in a basis that includes the leptonic distribution functions that, starting from this order in the QED coupling, couple to the partonic densities. Finally, we perform a phenomenological analysis of the impact of these corrections in the splitting functions.

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