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Toward a fully automated differential NNLOEW generator for lepton colliders

Alan Price1,* and Frank Krauss2,†

  • *Contact author: alan.price@uj.edu.pl
  • †Contact author: frank.krauss@durham.ac.uk
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Phys. Rev. D 113, 073008 – Published 27 April, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/rt7d-7jf9

Abstract

Future proposed lepton collider experiments will reach unprecedented levels of accuracy. To ensure the success of these experiments, and to fully exploit their wealth of data, the precision of theory calculations must reach comparable or even better levels. One bottleneck in achieving this precision target lies in the systematic, process-independent inclusion of higher-order corrections at next-to-next-to-leading order in the electroweak coupling while ensuring the correct matching with modern all-orders resummation techniques. Here, we present a solution to this problem, based on the Yennie-Frautschi-Suura theorem, which employs a local IR subtraction to remove divergences and its matching to an all-order resummation of the soft and soft-collinear logarithms.

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Phys. Rev. D 113, 073008– Published 27 April, 2026
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  • Accepted 2 April 2026
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