Matching of perturbative and exponentiated initial state radiation corrections to e+e-annihilation
1 Bogoliubov Laboratory for Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russian Federation
2 Institute of Engineering and Physics, Dubna State University, Dubna, Russian Federation
Abstract

The behavior of higher-order radiative corrections due to initial state radiation in processes of electron-positron annihilation is analyzed. Numerical results for energies of future colliders are presented. Uncertainties of the known results on these corrections are estimated. A modified scheme for simultaneous exponentiation of pure photonic and non-singlet pair corrections is presented. Matching of the exponentiated results with the existing analytic higher-order calculations is constructed. A new subtraction scheme is suggested. The results obtained are important for increasing the relative accuracy of the theoretical description of processes that will be studied in future electron-positron colliders to a level of approximately 10-5.

Keywords

radiative corrections; exponentiation; parton distribution functions; QED; electron-positron annihilation

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