====== TTP08-03 Massless propagators: applications in QCD and QED ====== We report on two recent results based on the evaluation of five-loop massless propagators in QCD and QED: (i) corrections of order $\alpha_s^4$ to the absorptive part of the polarization function in QCD with $n_f=3$;(ii) the five-loop contribution to the $\beta$ function of quenched QED. |**P.A. Baikov, K.G. Chetyrkin and J.H.K\"uhn** | |** PoS RADCOR2007 023 2007 ** | | {{preprints:2008:ttp08-03.pdf|PDF}} {{preprints:2008:ttp08-03.ps|PostScript}} [[http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4048|arXiv]] | | |