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Two-Loop Master Integrals for $\gamma^* \to 3$ Jets: The non-planar topologies

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-09-29 v2

Abstract

The calculation of the two-loop corrections to the three-jet production rate and to event shapes in electron--positron annihilation requires the computation of a number of two-loop four-point master integrals with one off-shell and three on-shell legs. Up to now, only those master integrals corresponding to planar topologies were known. In this paper, we compute the yet outstanding non-planar master integrals by solving differential equations in the external invariants which are fulfilled by these master integrals. We obtain the master integrals as expansions in \e=(4d)/2\e=(4-d)/2, where dd is the space-time dimension. The fully analytic results are expressed in terms of the two-dimensional harmonic polylogarithms already introduced in the evaluation of the planar topologies.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0101124,
  title  = {Two-Loop Master Integrals for $\gamma^* \to 3$ Jets: The non-planar topologies},
  author = {T. Gehrmann and E. Remiddi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0101124},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

22 pages, LaTeX, version to be published, Note added on numerical checks of the results, typos corrected

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