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In a recent paper we have presented results for a set of massive scalar one-loop master integrals needed in the NNLO parton model description of the hadroproduction of heavy flavors. The one--loop integrals were evaluated in $n=4-2\ep$…

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The three-loop vacuum polarization function $\Pi(q^2)$ induced by a massive quark is calculated. A comprehensive description of the method is presented. From the imaginary part the ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^2)$ result for the production of heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 K. G. Chetyrkin , J. H. Kuehn , M. Steinhauser

This paper describes an approach to generating looping animations using the modular flow and elliptic functions. The modular flow is a flow on lattices with many periodic orbits, and elliptic functions are meromorphic, doubly-periodic…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Clayton Shonkwiler

We show that for a class of two-loop diagrams, the on-shell part of the integration-by-parts (IBP) relations correspond to exact meromorphic one-forms on algebraic curves. Since it is easy to find such exact meromorphic one-forms from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Alessandro Georgoudis , Yang Zhang

We present a systematic method for determining the two-loop effective Lagrangian resulting from integrating out a set of heavy particles in an ultraviolet scalar theory. We prove that the matching coefficients are entirely determined from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-19 Javier Fuentes-Martín , Ajdin Palavrić , Anders Eller Thomsen

We demonstrate the use of several code implementations of the Mellin-Barnes method available in the public domain to derive analytic expressions for the sunset diagrams that arise in the two-loop contribution to the pion mass and decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-10 B. Ananthanarayan , Johan Bijnens , Shayan Ghosh , Aditya Hebbar

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

In these proceedings we discuss a representation for modular forms that is more suitable for their application to the calculation of Feynman integrals in the context of iterated integrals and the differential equation method. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Johannes Broedel , Claude Duhr , Falko Dulat , Brenda Penante , Lorenzo Tancredi

We consider the analytic calculation of a two-loop non-planar three-point function which contributes to the two-loop amplitudes for $t \bar{t}$ production and $\gamma \gamma$ production in gluon fusion through a massive top-quark loop. All…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

In this paper, we first establish explicit evaluations of six classes of hyperbolic sums by special values of the Gamma function by using the tools of the Fourier series expansions and the Maclaurin series expansions of a few Jacobi…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Hongyuan Rui , Ce Xu , Jianqiang Zhao

We introduce a streamlined method for evaluating in-in loop integrals using dimensional regularization for diagrams with an arbitrary number of external legs and vertices, which complements earlier work and facilitates the extraction of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Guillermo Ballesteros , Jesús Gambín Egea , Flavio Riccardi

We consider Quantum Chromodynamics with external vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudo-scalar currents and compute three-loop corrections to the corresponding vertex function taking into account massive quarks. We consider all non-singlet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 Matteo Fael , Fabian Lange , Kay Schönwald , Matthias Steinhauser

We present the analytic computation of all the planar master integrals which contribute to the two-loop scattering amplitudes for Higgs$\to 3$ partons, with full heavy-quark mass dependence. These are relevant for the NNLO corrections to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Roberto Bonciani , Vittorio Del Duca , Hjalte Frellesvig , Johannes M. Henn , Francesco Moriello , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We consider gluonic contributions to the heavy flavor Wilson coefficients at 3-loop order in QCD with two heavy quark lines in the asymptotic region $Q^2 \gg m_{1(2)}^2$. Here we report on the complete result in the case of two equal masses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-11 J. Ablinger , J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , A. Hasselhuhn , A. von Manteuffel , M. Round , C. Schneider , F. Wißbrock

We consider the scalar integral associated to the 3-loop sunrise graph with a massless line, two massive lines of equal mass $M$, a fourth line of mass equal to $Mx$, and the external invariant timelike and equal to the square of the fourth…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Mastrolia , E. Remiddi

Elliptic modular graph forms (eMGFs) are non-holomorphic modular forms depending on a modular parameter $\tau$ of a torus and marked points $z$ thereon. Traditionally, eMGFs are constructed from nested lattice sums over the discrete momenta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Martijn Hidding , Oliver Schlotterer , Bram Verbeek

We calculate analytically the three-loop planar master integrals relevant for heavy-to-light form factors using the method of differential equations. After choosing a proper canonical basis, the boundary conditions are easy to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-24 Long-Bin Chen , Jian Wang

We introduce a class of iterated integrals, defined through a set of linearly independent integration kernels on elliptic curves. As a direct generalisation of multiple polylogarithms, we construct our set of integration kernels ensuring…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Johannes Broedel , Claude Duhr , Falko Dulat , Lorenzo Tancredi

We calculate the two-mass three-loop contributions to the unpolarized and polarized massive operator matrix elements $\tilde{A}_{Qg}^{(3)}$ and $\Delta \tilde{A}_{Qg}^{(3)}$ in $x$-space for a general mass ratio by using a semi-analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-13 J. Ablinger , J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , A. von Manteuffel , C. Schneider , K. Schönwald

We highlight the latest developments in computing higher-order scattering amplitudes with massive internal propagators. The contributing Feynman integrals often lead to special classes of functions, for example, functions associated with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-26 Ekta Chaubey