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Two-loop massive QCD and QED helicity amplitudes for light-by-light scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-03-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present the analytic and compact two-loop helicity amplitudes for QCD and QED corrections to the light-by-light scattering process with massive internal fermions. We express the master integrals either in terms of multiple polylogarithms or in terms of iterated integrals with dlog one-forms. We also elaborate on optimizing the analytic results for each phase-space region. This makes the numerical evaluation of the scattering amplitudes fast, stable and suitable for phenomenological applications.

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@article{arxiv.2312.16966,
  title  = {Two-loop massive QCD and QED helicity amplitudes for light-by-light scattering},
  author = {Ajjath A H and Ekta Chaubey and Hua-Sheng Shao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.16966},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

35 pages, 1 figure, v2: journal version (two long equations move into appendix)

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