NNLO splitting functions in perturbative QCD

Unless another scheme is explicitly stated, the formulae linked below are given in MS.


The unpolarized third-order (NNLO) splitting functions

The exact numerical routines require the package of Gehrmann and Remiddi for the harmonic polylogarithms (HPLs) published in hep-ph/0107173 = CPC 141 (2001) 296. The one- and two-loop results in the HPL notation can be found in xpns1e.f and xpij1e.f.

Besides above journal papers, the results are also discussed in the conference accounts hep-ph/0407321 and hep-ph/0408075. Earlier partial results can be found in hep-ph/0209100 (Nucl. Phys. B646 (2002) 181-200).


Approximations for the 3-loop splitting functions (obsolete)

These expression are improved updates, presented and briefly discussed in hep-ph/0007362 (Phys. Lett. B490 (2000) 111-118), of the earlier approximations published in hep-ph/9907472 (Nucl. Phys. B568 (2000) 263-286) and hep-ph/0006154 (Nucl. Phys. B588 (2000) 345-373), respectively, for the non-singlet and singlet splitting functions.


Additional splitting functions for the photon's parton structure

The full-length paper will all exact expressions is not yet available. However, together the two articles above contain all information required for carrying out NNLO analyses in both the MS and DIS&gamma factorization schemes.

For the first paper on the latter, and the NLO splitting functions, see Phys. Rev. D45 (1992) 3986-94. Corresponding results for photon fragmentation are discussed in Phys. Rev. D48 (1993) 116-128 (a misprint is corrected here).

NOTE: a misprint in Eq. (5.8) of hep-ph/0110331 has been corrected in the ps-file linked above.


Splitting functions for non-singlet fragmentation distributions

The singlet NNLO splitting functions for the time-like case have not been calculated yet.