(Quasi)elastic electron--muon large-angle scattering to a two-loop approximation: vertex contributions

Abstract

We consider a process of quasielastic $eμ$ large-angle scattering at high energies with radiative corrections up to a two-loop level. A lowest order radiative correction arising both from one-loop virtual photon emission and a real soft emission are presented to a power accuracy. Two-loop level corrections are supposed to be of three gauge-invariant classes. One of them, so called vertex contribution, is given in logarithmic approximation. Relation with the renormalization group approach is discussed.