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Analytic Form of the Planar Two-Loop Five-Parton Scattering Amplitudes in QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present the analytic form of all leading-color two-loop five-parton helicity amplitudes in QCD. The results are analytically reconstructed from exact numerical evaluations over finite fields. Combining a judicious choice of variables with a new approach to the treatment of particle states in DD dimensions for the numerical evaluation of amplitudes, we obtain the analytic expressions with a modest computational effort. Their systematic simplification using multivariate partial-fraction decomposition leads to a particularly compact form. Our results provide all two-loop amplitudes required for the calculation of next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of three jets at hadron colliders in the leading-color approximation.

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@article{arxiv.1904.00945,
  title  = {Analytic Form of the Planar Two-Loop Five-Parton Scattering Amplitudes in QCD},
  author = {S. Abreu and J. Dormans and F. Febres Cordero and H. Ita and B. Page and V. Sotnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.00945},
  year   = {2019}
}

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v2: Minor text changes, matches published version