N$^3$LO Antenna Functions for Final-State Radiation
Abstract
We discuss recent progress in the calculation of integrated antenna functions for final-state radiation at NLO 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 . 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 NLO 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