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We use the method of differential equations to analytically evaluate all planar three-loop Feynman integrals relevant for form factor calculations involving massive particles. Our results for ninety master integrals at general $q^2$ are…
We report on recent progress on the splitting functions for the evolution of parton distributions and related quantities, the (lightlike) cusp anomalous dimensions, in perturbative QCD. New results are presented for the four-loop…
We present the analytical calculation of the four-loop quark mass anomalous dimension in Quantum Chromodynamics within the minimal subtraction scheme. On the basis of this result we find that the so-called invariant quark mass is a very…
We compute the photon-quark and Higgs-gluon form factors to four-loop order within massless perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. Our results constitute ready-to-use building blocks for N${}^4$LO cross sections for Drell-Yan processes and…
We present the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N^3LO) contributions to the non-singlet splitting functions for both parton distribution and fragmentation functions in perturbative QCD. The exact expressions are derived for the terms…
We obtain the quark and gluon rapidity anomalous dimension to fourth order in QCD. We calculate the N$^3$LO rapidity anomalous dimensions to higher order in the dimensional regulator and make use of the soft/rapidity anomalous dimension…
The presently experimentally interesting form factor for the anomalous process gamma -> pi^+ pi^0 pi^- is calculated as the quark "box"-amplitude where the intermediate fermion loop is the one of constituent quarks with the pseudoscalar…
We present results for the planar contribution to the four-loop anomalous dimension for a general N=2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory in three dimensions. These results should facilitate higher-order superconformality checks for theories…
We introduce a method for extracting the cusp anomalous dimension at L loops from four-gluon amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills without evaluating any integrals that depend on the kinematical invariants. We show that the anomalous dimension only…
Correlation functions of Wilson lines are relevant for describing the infrared structure of scattering amplitudes. We develop a new method for evaluating a wide class of such Wilson line integrals, and apply it to the calculation of the…
We compute a complete set of independent leading-color two-loop five-parton amplitudes in QCD. These constitute a fundamental ingredient for the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to three-jet production at hadron colliders. We…
The 4-loop $C_F^3 T_F n_l$ and 5-loop $C_F^4 T_F n_l$ terms in the HQET field anomalous dimension $\gamma_h$ are calculated analytically (the 4-loop one agrees with the recent numerical result [arXiv:1801.08292]). The 4-loop $C_F^3 T_F n_l$…
The four-loop beta-function of quantum chromodynamics is calculated and agreement is found with the previous result. The anomalous dimensions of the quark-gluon vertex, and quark, gluon and ghost fields are given for a general compact…
We compute the three-loop non-singlet corrections to the photon-quark form factors taking into account the full dependence on the virtuality of the photon and the quark mass. We combine the method of differential equations in an effective…
The form factor for the anomalous process $\gamma \pi ^* \to \pi \pi$, $F^{3\pi}(s,t,u)$, is calculated as a phenomenological application of the QCD Dyson-Schwinger equations. The chiral-limit value dictated by the electromagnetic,…
We have studied the recently completed analytic all-N expressions for the four-loop anomalous dimensions corresponding to the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order splitting functions for the non-singlet quark distribution in perturbative…
We have computed the fourth-order nf^2 contributions to all three non-singlet quark-quark splitting functions and their four nf^3 flavour-singlet counterparts for the evolution of the parton distributions of hadrons in perturbative QCD with…
We compute the decoupling function of the MSbar renormalized fine-structure constant up to four-loop order in perturbative QCD. The results are used in order to determine the related top-quark contributions to the Higgs-boson decay into two…
We compute the two-loop corrections to the massless quark form factor $\gamma^* \to q\bar q$ and gluon form factor $H\to gg$ to all orders in the dimensional regularisation parameter $\epsilon=(4-d)/2$. The two-loop contributions to the…
We study the photon-quark-quark and Higgs-gluon-gluon form factors for on-shell massless quarks and gluons in perturbative QCD. Previous third-order results for the quark case are extended by calculating the fermion-loop contributions up to…