HECTOR 1.00: A program for the calculation of QED, QCD and electroweak corrections to ep and l± N deep inelastic neutral and charged current scattering Original Research Article

A description of the Fortran program HECTOR for a variety of semi-analytical calculations of radiative QED, QCD, and electroweak corrections to the double-differential cross sections of NC and CC deep inelastic charged lepton proton (or lepton deuteron) scattering is presented. HECTOR originates from the substantially improved and extended earlier programs HELIOS and TERAD91. It is mainly intended for applications at HERA or LEP⊗LHC, but may be used also for μN scattering in fixed target experiments. The QED corrections may be calculated in different sets of variables: leptonic, hadronic, mixed, Jaquet-Blondel, double angle etc. Besides the leading logarithmic approximation up to order O(α2), exact O(α) corrections and inclusive soft photon exponentiation are taken into account. The photoproduction region is also covered.