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New method of calculation of master integrals using differential equations and asymptotical expansion is presented. This method leads to the results exact in space-time dimension $D$ having the form of the convergent power series. As an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Bogdan , R. N. Lee

The three-loop form factors in massless QCD can be expressed as a linear combination of master integrals. Besides a number of master integrals which factorise into products of one-loop and two-loop integrals, one finds 16 genuine three-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 T. Gehrmann , G. Heinrich , T. Huber , C. Studerus

We calculate the complete two-loop QCD amplitudes for hadronic $tW$ production by combining analytical and numerical techniques. The amplitudes have been first reduced to master integrals of eight planar and seven non-planar families, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Long-Bin Chen , Liang Dong , Hai Tao Li , Zhao Li , Jian Wang , Yefan Wang

We present analytical results for one-loop five-point master integrals with up to three off-shell legs. The method of canonical differential equations along with the Simplified Differential Equations approach is employed. All necessary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-18 Dhimiter D. Canko , Costas G. Papadopoulos , Nikolaos Syrrakos

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

Generalized-unitarity calculations of two-loop amplitudes are performed by expanding the amplitude in a basis of master integrals and then determining the coefficients by taking a number of generalized cuts. In this paper, we present a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-08 Simon Caron-Huot , Kasper J. Larsen

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

We develop a method to obtain $\epsilon$-expansions of massless two-point integrals in position space, based on the constraints implied by symmetries of the asymptotic expansion of conformal four-point integrals. Together with parametric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-05 Alessandro Georgoudis , Vasco Gonçalves , Erik Panzer , Raul Pereira

We use dimensional recurrence relations and analyticity to calculate four-loop propagator-type master integrals in the heavy-quark effective theory. Compared to previous applications of the DRA method, we apply a new technique of fixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Roman N. Lee , Andrey F. Pikelner

We consider the two-loop amplitude of $gg\rightarrow HH$ mediated by bottom quarks, which provides a correction of percent level at leading order in the low invariant mass region. In order to compute the corresponding master integrals, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-19 Zhenghong Hu , Tao Liu , Jin Min Yang

For the two-loop next-to-leading-order electroweak (NLO EW) corrections to $gg \rightarrow ZH$, the light-fermion contributions can be classified into eight distinct topologies. Using the canonical differential-equations method, we perform…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Shu-Xiang Li , Ren-You Zhang , Xiao-Feng Wang , Pan-Feng Li , Xiang-Jie Wei , Yi Wang , Yi Jiang , Qing-hai Wang

We consider the full set of master integrals with internal top-and $W$-propagators contributing to the three-loop Higgs self-energy diagrams of order ${\mathcal O}(\alpha^2 \alpha_s)$. We split the master integrals into a system relevant to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-30 Ekta Chaubey , Ina Hönemann , Stefan Weinzierl

In this article we give the details on the analytic calculation of the master integrals for the planar double box integral relevant to top-pair production with a closed top loop. We show that these integrals can be computed systematically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Luise Adams , Ekta Chaubey , Stefan Weinzierl

I discuss the status of the computation of the two-loop QCD corrections to top-quark pair production associated with a jet at hadron colliders. This amplitude is a missing ingredient for next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD predictions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 Colomba Brancaccio

We explore maximal unitarity for nonplanar two-loop integrals with up to four massive external legs. In this framework, the amplitude is reduced to a basis of master integrals whose coefficients are extracted from maximal cuts. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-30 Mads Sogaard , Yang Zhang

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

We compute the master integrals that arise in the calculation of the leading penguin amplitudes in non-leptonic B-decays at two-loop order. The application of differential equations in a canonical basis enables us to give analytic results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Guido Bell , Tobias Huber

We present an evaluation of the two master integrals for the crossed vertex diagram with a closed loop of top quarks that allows for an easy numerical implementation. The differential equations obeyed by the master integrals are used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Roberto Bonciani , Giuseppe Degrassi , Pier Paolo Giardino , Ramona Gröber

We examine maximal unitarity in the nonplanar case and derive remarkably compact analytic expressions for coefficients of master integrals with two-loop crossed box topology in massless four-point amplitudes in any gauge theory, thereby…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-18 Mads Sogaard

In this paper we complete the computation of the two-loop master integrals relevant for Higgs plus one jet production initiated in arXiv:1609.06685, arXiv:1907.13156, arXiv:1907.13234. We compute the integrals by defining differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Hjalte Frellesvig , Martijn Hidding , Leila Maestri , Francesco Moriello , Giulio Salvatori