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arxiv: 1802.07174 · v3 · submitted 2018-02-20 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-ex· nucl-th

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Soft-photon corrections to the Bethe-Heitler process in the γ prightarrow l^+l^-p reaction

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We report on the calculation of first-order QED corrections for the $\gamma p\rightarrow l^+l^-p^{\prime}$ process. An upcoming experiment at MAMI (Mainz) aims to compare the cross sections of muon- and electron-pair production in this reaction to test lepton universality. Precise knowledge of the electromagnetic radiative corrections is needed for these measurements. As a first step, we present the leading QED radiative corrections in the soft-photon approximation when accounting for the finite lepton mass. For the kinematics at MAMI, we find corrections of the percent level for muons, and of order $10\%$ for electrons.

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