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Massive three-loop form factor in the planar limit

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-03-08 v1

Abstract

We compute the three-loop QCD corrections to the massive quark-anti-quark-photon form factors F1F_1 and F2F_2 in the large-NcN_c limit. The analytic results are expressed in terms of Goncharov polylogarithms. This allows for a straightforward numerical evaluation. We also derive series expansions, including power suppressed terms, for three kinematic regions corresponding to small and large invariant masses of the photon momentum, and small velocities of the heavy quarks.

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@article{arxiv.1611.07535,
  title  = {Massive three-loop form factor in the planar limit},
  author = {Johannes Henn and Alexander V. Smirnov and Vladimir A. Smirnov and Matthias Steinhauser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.07535},
  year   = {2017}
}

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20 pages

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