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Evaluating multi-loop Feynman integrals numerically through differential equations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-05-01 v2

Abstract

The computation of Feynman integrals is often the bottleneck of multi-loop calculations. We propose and implement a new method to efficiently evaluate such integrals in the physical region through the numerical integration of a suitable set of differential equations, where the initial conditions are provided in the unphysical region via the sector decomposition method. We present numerical results for a set of two-loop integrals, where the non-planar ones complete the master integrals for ggγγgg\to\gamma\gamma and qqˉγγq\bar{q}\to\gamma\gamma scattering mediated by the top quark.

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@article{arxiv.1812.03060,
  title  = {Evaluating multi-loop Feynman integrals numerically through differential equations},
  author = {Manoj K. Mandal and Xiaoran Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03060},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Minor changes, accepted version