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We consider the complete set of planar two-loop five-point Feynman integrals with two off-shell external legs. These integrals are relevant, for instance, for the calculation of the second-order QCD corrections to the production of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-07 Samuel Abreu , Dmitry Chicherin , Vasily Sotnikov , Simone Zoia

Scattering amplitudes at loop level can be reduced to a basis of linearly independent Feynman integrals. The integral coefficients are extracted from generalized unitarity cuts which define algebraic varieties. The topology of an algebraic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Mads Sogaard , Yang Zhang

Representations are derived for the basic scalar one-loop vertex Feynman integrals as meromorphic functions of the space-time dimension $d$ in terms of (generalized) hypergeometric functions $_2F_1$ and $F_1$. Values at asymptotic or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Johannes Bluemlein , Khiem Hong Phan , Tord Riemann

Recent progress in unitarity techniques for one-loop scattering amplitudes makes a numerical implementation of this method possible. We present a 4-dimensional unitarity method for calculating the cut-constructible part of amplitudes and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Z. Kunszt

We present and numerically implement a computational method to construct relativistic scattering amplitudes that obey analyticity, crossing, elastic and inelastic unitarity in three and four spacetime dimensions. The algorithm is based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-17 Piotr Tourkine , Alexander Zhiboedov

We address the analytic computation of the two-loop scattering amplitudes for the production of two photons in parton-parton scattering, mediated by loops of heavy quarks. Due to the presence of integrals of elliptic type, both partonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Matteo Becchetti , Federico Coro , Christoph Nega , Lorenzo Tancredi , Fabian J. Wagner

In this thesis, we study the integrands of a special four-point correlation function formed of protected half-BPS operators and scattering amplitudes in planar supersymmetric $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills. We use the `soft-collinear bootstrap'…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-07 Vuong-Viet Tran

We evaluate analytically the master integrals for one of two types of planar families contributing to massive two-loop Bhabha scattering in QED. As in our previous paper, we apply a recently suggested new strategy to solve differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Johannes M. Henn , Vladimir A. Smirnov

In this work, we calculate two-loop six-point planar massless Feynman integrals at higher orders in the dimensional regulator $\epsilon$, corresponding to higher transcendental weights. In previous works, these integrals were calculated up…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Yuanche Liu , Antonela Matijašić , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Zihua Yang , Yang Zhang

Feynman amplitudes at higher orders in perturbation theory generically have complex singular structures. Notwithstanding the emergence of many powerful new methods, the presence of infrared divergences poses significant challenges for their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Charalampos Anastasiou , George Sterman

A method for reducing Feynman integrals, depending on several kinematic variables and masses, to a combination of integrals with fewer variables is proposed. The method is based on iterative application of functional equations proposed by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-29 Tarasov O.

I analyze the algebraic patterns underlying the structure of scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory. I focus on the decomposition of amplitudes in terms of independent functions and the systems of differential equations the latter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-14 Pierpaolo Mastrolia

Standard integration-by-parts (IBP) reduction methods typically yield Feynman integral bases where the reduction of some integrals gives rise to coefficients singular as the dimensional regulator $\epsilon\rightarrow 0$. These singular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-07 Stefano De Angelis , David A. Kosower , Rourou Ma , Zihao Wu , Yang Zhang

Virtual two-loop corrections to scattering amplitudes are a key ingredient to precision physics at collider experiments. We compute the full set of planar master integrals relevant to five-point functions in massless QCD, and use these to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-18 T. Gehrmann , J. M. Henn , N. A. Lo Presti

Two-loop massive Feynman integrals for $\phi^4$ field-theoretical model with long-range correlated disorder are considered. Massive integrals for the vertex function $\Gamma^{(4)}$ including two or three massless propagators for generic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-01 M. Dudka

We present a formalism for the calculation of multi-particle one-loop amplitudes, valid for an arbitrary number N of external legs, and for massive as well as massless particles. A new method for the tensor reduction is suggested which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-16 T. Binoth , J. Ph. Guillet , G. Heinrich , E. Pilon , C. Schubert

Within the non-perturbative 1/N expansion, we discuss numerical methods for calculating multi-loop Feynman graph needed to derive physical scattering amplitudes. We apply higher order 1/N methods to the scalar sector of the standard model,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Ghinculov , T. Binoth

Null Wilson loops in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills are dual to planar scattering amplitudes. This duality implies hidden symmetries for both objects. We consider closely related infrared finite observables, defined as the Wilson loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-14 Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes M. Henn

We present analytic results for one of two types of planar QED two-loop integrals for $\mu e$ scattering including finite lepton masses. No approximations are made, such that the results are valid not only in the limit of a small electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-18 Matthias Heller

Dimensionally-regulated Feynman integrals are a cornerstone of all perturbative computations in quantum field theory. They are known to exhibit a rich mathematical structure, which has led to the development of powerful new techniques for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Samuel Abreu , Ruth Britto , Claude Duhr