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This paper explores the numerical conformal bootstrap in general spacetime dimensions through the lens of a distinct category of analytic functionals, previously employed in two-dimensional studies. We extend the application of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-30 Kausik Ghosh , Zechuan Zheng

This article displays a proof of concept of the mixed analytical/numerical method, presented in previous publications, to compute two-loop functions with up to five massive propagators in a scalar theory having three- and four-leg vertices…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 J. Ph. Guillet , E. Pilon , Y. Shimizu , M. S. Zidi

In these lectures we discuss some of the mathematical structures that appear when computing multi-loop Feynman integrals. We focus on a specific class of special functions, the so-called multiple polylogarithms, and discuss introduce their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-01 Claude Duhr

We develop a generating-function formulation for the symbolic reduction of multi-loop Feynman integrals. In this framework, integration-by-parts identities are rewritten as differential equations for sector-wise generating functions, so the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Bo Feng , Xiang Li , Yuanche Liu , Yanqing Ma , Yang Zhang

We elaborate on a non-perturbative formulation of scattering amplitudes/null polygonal Wilson loops in planar N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory. The construction is based on a decomposition of the Wilson loop into elementary building blocks named…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Benjamin Basso , Amit Sever , Pedro Vieira

Bhabha scattering is one of the processes at the ILC where high precision data will be expected. The complete NNLO corrections include radiative loop corrections, with contributions from Feynman diagrams with five external legs. We take…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-16 J. Gluza , T. Riemann

We initiate a systematic framework for the analysis of analytic properties of finite Feynman integrals that are multiple polylogarithms. Based on the Feynman parameter representation in complex projective space, we make a complete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-14 Jianyu Gong , You Wang , Ellis Ye Yuan

We derive an analytic expression for the scalar one-loop pentagon and hexagon functions which is convenient for subsequent numerical integration. These functions are of relevance in the computation of next-to-leading order radiative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-02 T. Binoth , G. Heinrich , N. Kauer

We compute the symbol of the full-color two-loop five-particle amplitude in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills, including all non-planar subleading-color terms. The amplitude is written in terms of permutations of Parke-Taylor tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-08 D. Chicherin , T. Gehrmann , J. M. Henn , P. Wasser , Y. Zhang , S. Zoia

We study the elliptic double-box integral, which contributes to generic massless QFTs and is the only contribution to a particular 10-point scattering amplitude in N=4 SYM theory. Based on a Feynman parametrization, we express this integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-07 Alexander Kristensson , Matthias Wilhelm , Chi Zhang

We present the three-loop remainder function, which describes the scattering of six gluons in the maximally-helicity-violating configuration in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, as a function of the three dual conformal cross ratios. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Matt von Hippel , Jeffrey Pennington

Evaluation of a wide variety of Feynman diagrams with multi-loop integrals and physical parameters and its comparison with high energy experiments are expected to investigate new physics beyond the Standard Model. We have been developing a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-21 H Daisaka , N Nakasato , T Ishikawa , F Yuasa , K Nitadori

Multi-loop Feynman integrals are key objects for the high-order correction computations in high energy phenomenology. These integrals with multiple scales, may have complicated symbol structures. We show that the dual conformal symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Song He , Zhenjie Li , Rourou Ma , Zihao Wu , Qinglin Yang , Yang Zhang

We describe the unitarity approach for the numerical computation of two-loop integral coefficients of scattering amplitudes. It is well known that the leading propagator singularities of an amplitude's integrand are related to products of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Jaquier , B. Page

We describe a systematic approach for the evaluation of Witten diagrams for multi-loop scattering amplitudes of a conformally coupled scalar $\phi^4$-theory in Euclidean AdS$_4$, by recasting the Witten diagrams as flat space Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Till Heckelbacher , Ivo Sachs , Evgeny Skvortsov , Pierre Vanhove

A new bootstrap equation in 2-dimensional conformal field theory is derived starting from the momentum-space representation of the correlation functions. Since Wightman functions are not crossing-symmetric, the analyticity properties of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-28 Marc Gillioz

A scheme for systematically achieving accurate numerical evaluation of multi-loop Feynman diagrams is developed. This shows the feasibility of a project aimed to produce a complete calculation for two-loop predictions in the Standard Model.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Passarino

We bootstrap the three-point form factor of the chiral part of the stress-tensor supermultiplet in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory, obtaining new results at three, four, and five loops. Our construction employs known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Lance J. Dixon , Andrew J. McLeod , Matthias Wilhelm

We describe the formalism to compute gravitational-wave observables for compact binaries via the effective field theory framework in combination with modern tools from collider physics. We put particular emphasis on solving the "multi-loop"…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Christoph Dlapa , Gregor Kälin , Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto

The purpose of the "bootstrap program" is to construct integrable quantum field theories in 1+1 dimensions in terms of their Wightman functions explicitly. As an input the integrability and general assumptions of local quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 H. Babujian , M. Karowski