https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01128-y
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Non-forward radiative corrections to electron-carbon scattering
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Jožef Stefan Institute, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, 23606, Newport News, VA, USA
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The College of William and Mary, 23187, Williamsburg, VA, USA
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Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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Stony Brook University, 11794, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Riken BNL Research Center, NY, 11793, Upton, USA
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Department of Physics, University of Zagreb, 10002, Zagreb, Croatia
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Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, BP 10448, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Physik Department, Technische Universität München, 85748, Garching, Germany
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PRISMA Cluster of Excellence, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55128, Mainz, Germany
Received:
28
February
2023
Accepted:
14
September
2023
Published online:
10
October
2023
Radiative corrections to elastic scattering represent an important part of the interpretation of electron-induced nuclear reactions at small energy transfers, where they represent a dominant part of the background. Here we present and validate a new event generator for simulating QED radiative processes in electron-carbon scattering that exactly calculates the coherent sum of the Bethe-Heitler amplitudes for the leading diagrams. We demonstrate that the generator describes the shape of the radiative tail of an elastic peak with a precision better than 
over the whole energy range of the scattered electrons and can thus be reliably employed in the analyses of electron scattering experiments for more precise extraction of inelastic cross-sections.
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