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Abstract Radiative corrections are crucial for modern high-precision physics experiments, and are an area of active research in the experimental and theoretical community. Here we provide an overview of the state of the field of radiative corrections with a focus on several topics: lepton–proton scattering, QED corrections in deep-inelastic scattering, and in radiative light-hadron decays. Particular emphasis is placed on the two-photon exchange, believed to be responsible for the proton form-factor discrepancy, and associated Monte-Carlo codes. We encourage the community to continue developing theoretical techniques to treat radiative corrections, and perform experimental tests of these corrections. 

The mystery associated with a proposed Dark Sector of phenomena that are separate from the standard model of particle physics is described. A Dark Sector may possess matter particles, force carriers which mediate their interactions, and new interactions and symmetries that are beyond the standard model of particle physics. Various approaches for Dark Sector searches are described, including those at the energy frontier at the Large Hadron Collider, in astrophysical interactions with both terrestrial experiments and those in space-born platforms. Searches using low energy photons from microwave energies in cryogenic environments to x-ray energies are also described. While there is no noncontroversial evidence for Dark Sector phenomena presently, new searches with more modern equipment and analysis methods are exploring regions of phase space that have not been available before now, indicating ongoing interest and excitement in this research. 

Spinor fields with a vortex structure in free space that allow them to have arbitrary integer orbital angular momentum along the direction of motion have been studied for some time. Relatively new is the observation in a certain context that the vortex center of this field structure is, unlike a classical whirlpool, not singular. We point out that there are several ways to calculate the local velocity of the spinor field and that all but one show a singular vorticity at the vortex line. That one, using the Dirac bilinear current with no derivatives, is the only one so far (to our knowledge) studied in the literature in this context and we further show how to understand an apparent conflict in the existing results. 

Deep-inelastic scattering of electrons on a nucleon is a primary source of information about parton distribution functions (PDF) and transverse momentum distributions (TMD). The calculation of the QED corrections to SIDIS with any predetermined accuracy is crucial for studies of the 3D structure of the nucleon at JLab and future Electron Ion Collider (EIC). A majority of approved physics experiments that will be running with 12-GeV electron beams at JLab to study the nucleon structure require per-cent level accuracies in the measurements of differential cross sections and polarization asymmetries. Neglecting electromagnetic corrections may lead to significant mis-interpretation of data. Analysis of T-odd singe spin asymmetries (SSA) in SIDIS, p (e, e'h) X, is based on an assumption that purely electromagnetic T-odd effects are negligible.