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Dimensionally Regulated Pentagon Integrals

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-15 v2

Abstract

We present methods for evaluating the Feynman parameter integrals associated with the pentagon diagram in 4-2 epsilon dimensions, along with explicit results for the integrals with all masses vanishing or with one non-vanishing external mass. The scalar pentagon integral can be expressed as a linear combination of box integrals, up to O(epsilon) corrections, a result which is the dimensionally-regulated version of a D=4 result of Melrose, and of van Neerven and Vermaseren. We obtain and solve differential equations for various dimensionally-regulated box integrals with massless internal lines, which appear in one-loop n-point calculations in QCD. We give a procedure for constructing the tensor pentagon integrals needed in gauge theory, again through O(epsilon^0).

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9306240,
  title  = {Dimensionally Regulated Pentagon Integrals},
  author = {Z. Bern and L. Dixon and D. A. Kosower},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9306240},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

56 pages (including figures), signs corrected in eq. (4.65)