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Leading-Color Two-Loop QCD Corrections for Three-Photon Production at Hadron Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-01-20 v2

Abstract

We compute the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the production of three photons at hadron colliders in QCD at leading-color. Using the two-loop numerical unitarity method coupled with analytic reconstruction techniques, we obtain the decomposition of the two-loop amplitudes in terms of master integrals in analytic form. These expressions are valid to all orders in the dimensional regulator. We use them to compute the two-loop finite remainders, which are given in a form that can be efficiently evaluated across the whole physical phase space. We further package these results in a public code which assembles the helicity-summed squared two-loop remainders, whose numerical stability across phase-space is demonstrated. This is the first time that a five-point two-loop process is publicly available for immediate phenomenological applications.

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@article{arxiv.2010.15834,
  title  = {Leading-Color Two-Loop QCD Corrections for Three-Photon Production at Hadron Colliders},
  author = {S. Abreu and B. Page and E. Pascual and V. Sotnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15834},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Minor text changes, updated references, and a typo fix. Matches the published version