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Applications of a method recently suggested by one of the authors (R.L.) are presented. This method is based on the use of dimensional recurrence relations and analytic properties of Feynman integrals as functions of the parameter of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Roman N. Lee , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

In this letter we continue the calculation of master integrals for massless three-loop form factors by giving analytical results for those integrals which are relevant for the fermionic contributions proportional to N_F^2, N_F*N, and N_F/N.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Heinrich , T. Huber , D. Maitre

An exact expression for the master integral I_2 arising in three-loop on-shell HQET propagator diagrams with mass is derived and its analytical expansion in the dimensional regularization parameter epsilon is given.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. G. Grozin , T. Huber , D. Maitre

We present Forcer, a new FORM program for the calculation of four-loop massless propagators. The basic framework is similar to that of the Mincer program for three-loop massless propagators: the program reduces Feynman integrals to a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 T. Ueda , B. Ruijl , J. A. M. Vermaseren

We compute the master integrals containing 2 and 3 massive propagators entering the planar amplitudes of the 2-loop electroweak form factor. The masses of the $W$, $Z$ and Higgs bosons are assumed to be degenerate. This work is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 U. Aglietti , R. Bonciani

We present the bare one-, two-, and three-loop form factors in massless Quantum Chromodynamics as linear combinations of finite master integrals. Using symbolic integration, we compute their $\epsilon$ expansions and thereby reproduce all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-30 Andreas von Manteuffel , Erik Panzer , Robert M. Schabinger

We evaluate a four-loop conformal integral, i.e. an integral over four four-dimensional coordinates, by turning to its dimensionally regularized version and applying differential equations for the set of the corresponding 213 master…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Burkhard Eden , Vladimir A. Smirnov

In this article we present a high-precision evaluation of the expansions in $\e=(4-d)/2$ of (up to) four-loop scalar vacuum master integrals, using the method of difference equations developed by S. Laporta. We cover the complete set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Schroder , A. Vuorinen

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-29 T. Gehrmann , E. Remiddi

We develop a unitarity method to compute one-loop amplitudes with massless propagators in d=4-2*epsilon dimensions. We compute double cuts of the loop amplitudes via a decomposition into a four-dimensional and a -2*epsilon-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Charalampos Anastasiou , Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Zoltan Kunszt , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We present calculations for non-planar double-box with four massless/massive external/internal legs/propagators. The results are expressed for arbitrary exponents of propagators and dimension in terms of Lauricella's hypergeometric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alfredo T. Suzuki , Alexandre G. M. Schmidt

We present a method of computing any one-loop integral in lattice perturbation theory by systematically expanding around its continuum limit. At any order in the expansion in the lattice spacing, the result can be written as a sum of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas Becher , Kirill Melnikov

We present the calculation of the master integrals needed for the two-loop QCDxEW corrections to $ q + \bar{q} \to l^- + l^+$ and $ q + \bar{q}' \to l^- + \overline{\nu} \, , $ for massless external particles. We treat W and Z bosons as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Roberto Bonciani , Stefano Di Vita , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Ulrich Schubert

The dimensionally regularized massless on-shell planar triple box Feynman diagram with powers of propagators equal to one is analytically evaluated for general values of the Mandelstam variables s and t in a Laurent expansion in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. A. Smirnov

We compute all master integrals for massless three-loop four-particle scattering amplitudes required for processes like di-jet or di-photon production at the LHC. We present our result in terms of a Laurent expansion of the integrals in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Johannes Henn , Bernhard Mistlberger , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Pascal Wasser

A general one-loop scattering amplitude may be expanded in terms of master integrals. The coefficients of the master integrals can be obtained from tree-level input in a two-step process. First, use known formulas to write the coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-14 Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Gang Yang

We evaluate the massless one-loop hexagon integral in six dimensions. The result is given in terms of standard polylogarithms of uniform transcendental weight three, its functional form resembling the one of the remainder function of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Vittorio Del Duca , Claude Duhr , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We present a semi-analytic method for the integrand reduction of one-loop amplitudes, based on the systematic application of the Laurent expansions to the integrand-decomposition. In the asymptotic limit, the coefficients of the master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Edoardo Mirabella , Tiziano Peraro

We study several multiscale one-loop five-point families of Feynman integrals. More specifically, we employ the Simplified Differential Equations approach to obtain results in terms of Goncharov polylogarithms of up to transcendental weight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-14 Nikolaos Syrrakos

In a recent paper we have presented an automated subtraction method for divergent multi-loop/leg integrals in dimensional regularisation which allows for their numerical evaluation, and applied it to diagrams with massless internal lines.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Binoth , G. Heinrich