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N$^3$LO Antenna Functions for Final-State Radiation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-10-24 v2

Abstract

We discuss recent progress in the calculation of integrated antenna functions for final-state radiation at N3^3LO in QCD. Antenna functions are directly extracted from physical matrix elements for the decay of a colour-singlet state into partons. In order to compute their integrated counterparts, which are necessary ingredients for fixed-order calculations in QCD, each allowed final state has to be individually integrated over the inclusive phase space of the unresolved radiation. We analytically integrated two-, three-, four- and five-particle final-state matrix elements for the decay of a virtual photon and a Higgs boson into partons, considering up to third-order corrections in the strong coupling constant αs\alpha_s. The integration over the inclusive phase space is performed relying on well-established reverse unitarity and IBP reduction techniques. We conclude with preliminary comments about the structure of N3^3LO subtraction terms in the context of the antenna subtraction method.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2310.07934,
  title  = {N$^3$LO Antenna Functions for Final-State Radiation},
  author = {Matteo Marcoli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07934},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Proceedings for RADCOR 2023, 8 pages, 1 figure

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