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Lectures on multiloop calculations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v4

Abstract

I discuss methods of calculation of propagator diagrams (massless, those of Heavy Quark Effective Theory, and massive on-shell diagrams) up to 3 loops. Integration-by-parts recurrence relations are used to reduce them to linear combinations of basis integrals. Non-trivial basis integrals have to be calculated by some other method, e.g., using Gegenbauer polynomial technique. Many of them are expressed via hypergeometric functions; in the massless and HQET cases, their indices tend to integers at ϵ0\epsilon\to0. I discuss the algorithm of their expansion in ϵ\epsilon, in terms of multiple ζ\zeta values. These lectures were given at Calc-03 school, Dubna, 14--20 June 2003.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0307297,
  title  = {Lectures on multiloop calculations},
  author = {A. G. Grozin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0307297},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

52 pages, 49 figures. Lectures at Calc-03 school, Dubna, 14--20 June 2003. v2: 2 references added, minor typos corrected. v3: methodical improvements, typo in eq. (3.19) corrected, 2 references added