Two-loop Feynman integrals for leading colour $t\bar{t}W$ production at hadron colliders
Abstract
We compute a complete set of the two-loop Feynman integrals that are required for the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to on-shell top-pair production in association with a boson at hadron colliders in the leading colour approximation. These Feynman integrals also contribute to Higgs or -boson production in association with a top pair. We employ the method of differential equations (DEs), facilitated by the use of finite field methods to handle the algebraic complexity stemming from the seven-scale kinematics. The presence of the top quark in the virtual propagators, in addition to the mass of the external boson, gives rise to nested square roots and three elliptic curves. We obtain DEs that depend at most quadratically on the dimensional regulator for sectors where these analytic structures appear, and are -factorised otherwise. We express the DEs in terms of a minimal set of differential one-forms, separating the logarithmic ones. We solve the DEs numerically in the physical kinematic region, with the method of generalised power series expansions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2504.13011,
title = {Two-loop Feynman integrals for leading colour $t\bar{t}W$ production at hadron colliders},
author = {Matteo Becchetti and Dhimiter Canko and Vsevolod Chestnov and Tiziano Peraro and Mattia Pozzoli and Simone Zoia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.13011},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
38 pages, 3 figures, ancillary files available at https://zenodo.org/records/15175607 ; v2: published version