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Two-loop helicity amplitudes for $gg \to ZZ$ with full top-quark mass effects

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-06-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We calculate the two-loop QCD corrections to ggZZgg \to ZZ involving a closed top-quark loop. We present a new method to systematically construct linear combinations of Feynman integrals with a convergent parametric representation, where we also allow for irreducible numerators, higher powers of propagators, dimensionally shifted integrals, and subsector integrals. The amplitude is expressed in terms of such finite integrals by employing syzygies derived with linear algebra and finite field techniques. Evaluating the amplitude using numerical integration, we find agreement with previous expansions in asymptotic limits and provide ab initio results also for intermediate partonic energies and non-central scattering at higher energies.

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@article{arxiv.2011.15113,
  title  = {Two-loop helicity amplitudes for $gg \to ZZ$ with full top-quark mass effects},
  author = {Bakul Agarwal and Stephen P. Jones and Andreas von Manteuffel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.15113},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

40 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables, 2 algorithms, and 2 ancillary files; v2: added comparisons with Pade approximations, added discussion of subtraction scheme dependence, fixed conventions of results and issues in presentation of numerical checks