PT Journal
AU de Florian, D
   Sborlini, GFR
   Rodrigo, G
TI QED corrections to the Altarelli-Parisi splitting functions
SO European Physical Journal C
JI Eur. Phys. J. C
PY 2016
BP 282
EP 6pp
VL 76
IS 5
DI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4131-8
LA English
AB We discuss the combined effect of QED and QCD corrections to the evolution of parton distributions. We extend the available knowledge of the Altarelli-Parisi splitting functions to one order higher in QED, and we provide explicit expressions for the splitting kernels up to O(alpha alpha(S)). The results presented in this article allow one to perform a parton distribution function analysis reaching full NLO QCD-QED combined precision.
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