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Four-loop HQET propagators from the DRA method

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-03-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We use dimensional recurrence relations and analyticity to calculate four-loop propagator-type master integrals in the heavy-quark effective theory. Compared to previous applications of the DRA method, we apply a new technique of fixing homogeneous solutions from pole parts of integrals evaluated in different rational space-time dimension points. The latter were calculated from the integration-by-parts reduction of finite integrals in shifted space-time dimension and/or with increased propagators powers. We provide results for epsilon expansions of master integrals near d=4d = 4 and d=3d = 3 using constructed alternative sets of integrals with expansion coefficients having conjectural uniform transcendental weight.

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@article{arxiv.2211.03668,
  title  = {Four-loop HQET propagators from the DRA method},
  author = {Roman N. Lee and Andrey F. Pikelner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.03668},
  year   = {2023}
}
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