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Two-loop kite master integral for a correlator of two composite vertices

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-06-16 v5 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider the most general two-loop massless correlator I(n1,n2,n3,n4,n5;x,y;D)I(n_1,n_2,n_3,n_4,n_5; x,y;D) of two composite vertices with the Bjorken fractions xx and yy for arbitrary indices {ni}\{n_i\} and space-time dimension DD; this correlator is represented by a "kite" diagram. The correlator I({ni};x,y;D)I(\{n_i\};x,y;D) is the generating function for any scalar Feynman integrals related to this kind of diagrams. We calculate I({ni};x,y;D)I(\{n_i\};x,y;D) and its Mellin moments in a direct way by evaluating hypergeometric integrals in the α\alpha representation. The result for I({ni};x,y;D)I(\{n_i\};x,y;D) is given in terms of a double hypergeometric series -- the Kamp\'{e} de F\'{e}rriet function. In some particular but still quite general cases it reduces to a sum of generalized hypergeometric functions 3F2_3F_2. The Mellin moments can be expressed through generalized Lauricella functions, which reduce to the Kamp\'{e} de F\'{e}rriet functions in several physically interesting situations. A number of Feynman integrals involved and relations for them are obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1812.02164,
  title  = {Two-loop kite master integral for a correlator of two composite vertices},
  author = {S. V. Mikhailov and N. Volchanskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.02164},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

28 pages, 3 figures. v5 corrects misprints in eqs. (3.6) and (4.15)

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