Hard processes in massless perturbative QCD (to be updated)

All coefficient-function formulae linked below are given in the MS scheme.


The third-order coefficient functions for electromagnetic DIS

The exact x-space numerics requires the weight-5 extension of the Gehrmann/Remiddi package for the harmonic polylogarithms (HPLs) published in hep-ph/0107173 = Comput. Phys. Commun. 141 (2001) 296.

NOTE: The sign of the ζ5 term in the first line of Eq. (4.19) is mistyped in the archived version of the second paper.

The third-order coefficient function for the odd-moment F3


Parametrizations of the 2-loop DIS coefficient functions

These parametrizations have been given in hep-ph/9907472 (Nucl. Phys. B568 (2000) 263-286) and hep-ph/0006154 (Nucl. Phys. B588 (2000) 345-373). While being accurate enough for normal applications, they are considerably faster (especially for F2 and F3), than the exact expressions of Sanchez Guillen et al. and Zijlstra / van Neerven.

NOTE: misprints in Eqs. (A.3) and (A.4) of hep-ph/0006154 have been corrected in the ps-file linked above.


Additional NNLO coefficient functions for the photon structure


Convolutions for the physical non-singlet evolution kernels

These results have been presented in hep-ph/0103123 (Nucl. Phys. B603 (2001) 42-68). The approximations for the third-order coefficient functions in that paper have been superseded by the above exact results.


The non-singlet coefficient functions for e+ e- --> h + X

These results confirm the calculations of Rijken and van Neerven in 1996/97 (there are some misprints in their papers). The numerical routines require the HPL package by Gehrmann and Remiddi mendtioned above.