PT Journal
AU de Florian, D
   Sborlini, GFR
   Rodrigo, G
TI Two-loop QED corrections to the Altarelli-Parisi splitting functions
SO Journal of High Energy Physics
JI J. High Energy Phys.
PY 2016
BP 056
EP 16pp
VL 10
IS 10
DI 10.1007/JHEP10(2016)056
LA English
DE NLO Computations; QCD Phenomenology
AB 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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