Radiative corrections and Monte Carlo tools for low-energy hadronic cross sections in $e^+ e^-$ collisions
R. Aliberti, P. Beltrame, Ettore Budassi, C. M. Carloni Calame, Gilberto Colangelo, L. Cotrozzi, A. G. Denig, A. Driutti, Tim Engel, Lois Flower, Andrea Gurgone, Martin Hoferichter, F.V. Ignatov, T. Lenz, Bastian Kubis, Andrzej Kupsc, Fabian Lange, Alberto Lusiani, S. Müller, Jérémy Paltrinieri, P. Rosas, F. Piccinini, Alan Price, Lorenzo Punzi, Marco Rocco, O. Shekhovtsova, Andrzej Siódmok, Adrian Signer, Giovanni Stagnitto, Peter Stoffer, T. Teubner, William J. Torres Bobadilla, Francesco P. Ucci, Yannick Ulrich, G. Venanzoni
Abstract
We present the results of Phase I of an ongoing review of Monte Carlo tools relevant for low-energy hadronic cross sections. This includes a detailed comparison of Monte Carlo codes for electron–positron scattering into a muon pair, pion pair, and electron pair, for scan and radiative-return experiments. After discussing the various approaches that are used and effects that are included, we show differential cross sections obtained with AfkQed, BabaYaga@NLO, KKMC, MCGPJ, McMule, Phokhara, and Sherpa, for scenarios that are inspired by experiments providing input for the dispersive evaluation of the hadronic vacuum polarisation.