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We compute the three-loop banana integral with four unequal masses in dimensional regularisation. This integral is associated to a family of K3 surfaces, thus representing an example for Feynman integrals with geometries beyond elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-05 Sebastian Pögel , Toni Teschke , Xing Wang , Stefan Weinzierl

The three-loop QCD contributions to the vacuum polarization functions of the $Z$ and $W$ bosons at zero momentum are calculated. The top quark is considered to be massive and the other quarks massless. Using these results, we calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-13 L. Avdeev , J. Fleischer , S. Mikhailov , O. Tarasov

We present an algorithm which allows to solve analytically linear systems of differential equations which factorize to first order. The solution is given in terms of iterated integrals over an alphabet where its structure is implied by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-19 J. Ablinger , J. Blümlein , P. Marquard , N. Rana , C. Schneider

This Note aims at presenting a simple and efficient procedure to derive the structure of high-order corrector estimates for the homogenization limit applied to a semi-linear elliptic equation posed in perforated domains. Our working…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Khoa Vo , Adrian Muntean

The differential-reduction algorithm, which allows one to express generalized hypergeometric functions with parameters of arbitrary values in terms of such functions with parameters whose values differ from the original ones by integers, is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-19 Vladimir V. Bytev , Mikhail Yu. Kalmykov , Bernd A. Kniehl

Three-loop vacuum integrals are an important building block for the calculation of a wide range of three-loop corrections. Until now, only results for integrals with one and two independent mass scales are known, but in the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-08 Ayres Freitas

The loop equations for a chain of hermitian random matrices are computed explicitely, including the 1/N^2 corrections. To leading order, the master loop equation reduces to an algebraic equation, whose solution can be written in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 B Eynard

We present the analytic calculation of the Master Integrals necessary to compute the planar massive QCD corrections to Di-photon (and Di-jet) production at hadron colliders. The masters are evaluated by means of the differential equations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-14 Matteo Becchetti , Roberto Bonciani

In this paper, we analytically compute all master integrals for one of the two non-planar integral families for five-particle massless scattering at two loops. We first derive an integral basis of 73 integrals with constant leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-18 D. Chicherin , T. Gehrmann , J. M. Henn , N. A. Lo Presti , V. Mitev , P. Wasser

We describe a constructive procedure to separate overlapping infrared divergences in multi-loop integrals. Working with a parametric representation in D=4-2*epsilon dimensions, adequate subtractions lead to a Laurent series in epsilon,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Binoth , G. Heinrich

Higher order calculations in perturbative Quantum Field Theories often produce coupled linear systems of differential equations which factorize to first order. Here we present an algorithm to solve such systems in terms of iterated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 J. Ablinger , J. Blümlein , P. Marquard , N. Rana , C. Schneider

This is a sequel of our previous paper where we described an algorithm to find a solution of differential equations for master integrals in the form of an $\epsilon$-expansion series with numerical coefficients. The algorithm is based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-15 Roman N. Lee , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

Based on the Simplified Differential Equations approach, we present results for the two-loop non-planar hexa-box families of master integrals. We introduce a new approach to obtain the boundary terms and establish a one-dimensional integral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Adam Kardos , Costas G. Papadopoulos , Alexander V. Smirnov , Nikolaos Syrrakos , Christopher Wever

The three-loop QCD corrections to the $\rho$ parameter from top and bottom quark loops are calculated. The result differs from the one recently calculated by Avdeev et al. As function of the pole mass the numerical value is given by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 K. G. Chetyrkin , J. H. Kuehn , M. Steinhauser

We present the two-loop master integrals relevant to the ${\mathcal O}(\alpha \alpha_s)$-corrections to the decay $H \rightarrow b \bar{b}$ through a $H t \bar{t}$-coupling. We keep the full dependence on the heavy particle masses, but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Ekta Chaubey , Stefan Weinzierl

We study a set of two-loop non-planar master integrals needed for the NNLO QCD corrections to diphoton and dijet production at hadron colliders. The top-sector topology contains an internal massive fermion loop and is known to contain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-13 Taushif Ahmed , Ekta Chaubey , Mandeep Kaur , Sara Maggio

We present a system of canonical differential equations satisfied by the three-loop banana integrals with four distinct non-zero masses in $D = 2-2\eps$ dimensions. Together with the initial condition in the small-mass limit, this provides…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Claude Duhr , Sara Maggio , Franziska Porkert , Cathrin Semper , Sven F. Stawinski

We present fully analytic results for all master integrals for the three-loop banana graph with four equal and non-zero masses. The results are remarkably simple and all integrals are expressed as linear combinations of iterated integrals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Johannes Broedel , Claude Duhr , Falko Dulat , Robin Marzucca , Brenda Penante , Lorenzo Tancredi

We evaluate, exactly in d, the master integrals contributing to massless three-loop QCD form factors. The calculation is based on a combination of a method recently suggested by one of the authors (R.L.) with other techniques: sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 R. N. Lee , A. V. Smirnov , V. A. Smirnov

We present analytic results for all the Feynman integrals relevant for ${\mathcal O}(\alpha \alpha_s)$ virtual corrections to $H \rightarrow ZZ^*$ decay. We use the method of differential equations to solve the master integrals while…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-26 Ekta Chaubey , Mandeep Kaur , Ambresh Shivaji