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High-precision calculation of the 4-loop contribution to the electron g-2 in QED

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-23 v2

Abstract

I have evaluated up to 1100 digits of precision the contribution of the 891 4-loop Feynman diagrams contributing to the electron gg-22 in QED. The total mass-independent 4-loop contribution is ae=1.912245764926445574152647167439830054060873390658725345(απ)4 a_e = -1.912245764926445574152647167439830054060873390658725345{\ldots} \left(\frac{\alpha}{\pi}\right)^4. I have fit a semi-analytical expression to the numerical value. The expression contains harmonic polylogarithms of argument eiπ3e^{\frac{i\pi}{3}}, e2iπ3e^{\frac{2i\pi}{3}}, eiπ2e^{\frac{i\pi}{2}}, one-dimensional integrals of products of complete elliptic integrals and six finite parts of master integrals, evaluated up to 4800 digits.

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@article{arxiv.1704.06996,
  title  = {High-precision calculation of the 4-loop contribution to the electron g-2 in QED},
  author = {Stefano Laporta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.06996},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables v2: version published in PRL (specified "mass-independent contribution", figure 2 reformatted)