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Nine-Propagator Master Integrals for Massless Three-Loop Form Factors

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-07-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We complete the calculation of master integrals for massless three-loop form factors by computing the previously-unknown three diagrams with nine propagators in dimensional regularisation. Each of the integrals yields a six-fold Mellin-Barnes representation which we use to compute the coefficients of the Laurent expansion in epsilon. Using Riemann zeta functions of up to weight six, we give fully analytic results for one integral; for a second, analytic results for all but the finite term; for the third, analytic results for all but the last two coefficients in the Laurent expansion. The remaining coefficients are given numerically to sufficiently high accuracy for phenomenological applications.

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@article{arxiv.0902.3512,
  title  = {Nine-Propagator Master Integrals for Massless Three-Loop Form Factors},
  author = {G. Heinrich and T. Huber and D. A. Kosower and V. A. Smirnov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3512},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, 2 figures. Minor modifications and reference added. Matches published version

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