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We have computed the first 30 even-N moments for the double fermionic (nf^2) part of the quark-to-gluon splitting function P_{gq} at the fourth order of perturbative QCD via the renormalization of off-shell operator matrix elements. From…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-06 G. Falcioni , F. Herzog , S. Moch , J. Vermaseren , A. Vogt

We consider the anomalous dimension of the flavor non-singlet twist-two quark operator of arbitrary Lorentz spin N at four loops in QCD and construct its contribution proportional to zeta(3) in analytic form by applying advanced methods of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 B. A. Kniehl , V. N. Velizhanin

We present the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) contributions to the main splitting functions for the evolution of longitudinally polarized parton densities of hadrons in perturbative QCD. The quark-quark and gluon-quark splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Moch , J. A. M. Vermaseren , A. Vogt

The four-loop QCD corrections to the electroweak $\rho$-parameter arising from top and bottom quark loops are computed. Specifically we evaluate the missing ``non-singlet'' piece. Using algebraic methods the amplitude is reduced to a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. G. Chetyrkin , M. Faisst , J. H. Kühn , P. Maierhoefer , C. Sturm

We have determined the fourth-order $n_f$ contributions to the two splitting functions governing the evolution of all flavor differences of quark distributions of hadrons in perturbative quantum chromodynamics with $n_f$ light flavors. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 B. A. Kniehl , S. Moch , V. N. Velizhanin , A. Vogt

We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) contributions to the splitting functions governing the evolution of the unpolarized flavour-singlet parton densities in perturbative QCD. The exact expressions are presented in both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 A. Vogt , S. Moch , J. A. M. Vermaseren

These proceedings describe a computation of the large-$n_f$ terms contributing to the QCD splitting functions at the fourth order in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$. Using the FORCER package for the reduction of four-loop two-point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-04 Joshua Davies

We report on the first calculation of the structure function g_1 in polarised deep-inelastic scattering to the third order in massless perturbative QCD. The calculation follows the dispersive approach already used for the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Vogt , S. Moch , M. Rogal , J. A. M. Vermaseren

We derive one-loop matching condition for non-singlet quark distributions in transverse-momentum cut-off scheme, including unpolarized, helicity and transversity distributions. The matching is between the quasi-distribution defined by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-13 Xiaonu Xiong , Xiangdong Ji , Jian-Hui Zhang , Yong Zhao

We calculate the unpolarized twist-2 three-loop splitting functions $P_{qg}^{(2)}(x)$ and $P_{gg}^{(2,\rm N_F)}(x)$ and the associated anomalous dimensions using massive three-loop operator matrix elements. While we calculate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 J. Ablinger , A. Behring , J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , A. von Manteuffel , C. Schneider

We report on the status an ab initio computation of the time-like splitting functions at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. Time-like splitting functions govern the collinear kinematics of inclusive hadron production in $e^+e^-$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-15 O. Gituliar

New results at four-loop order in perturbative QCD for the first two Taylor coefficients of the heavy quark vacuum polarization function are presented. They can be used to perform a precise determination of the charm- and bottom-quark mass.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 K. G. Chetyrkin , J. H. Kühn , C. Sturm

We have computed the contributions of the quartic Casimir invariants to the four-loop anomalous dimensions of twist-2 spin-N operators at N =< 16. The results provide new information on the structure of the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-20 S. Moch , B. Ruijl , T. Ueda , J. A. M. Vermaseren , A. Vogt

We present the third-order contributions to the quark-gluon and gluon-quark timelike splitting functions for the evolution of fragmentation functions in perturbative QCD. These quantities have been derived by studying physical evolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 A. A. Almasy , A. Vogt , S. Moch

We report results for the lowest even-$N$ moments of the flavor-nonsinglet structure functions $F_2$ and $F_L$ in QCD at the fourth order in the perturbative expansion in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$. Our results are presented in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 S. Moch , B. Ruijl , T. Ueda , J. A. M. Vermaseren , A. Vogt

We study the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) evolution of flavour non-singlet quark densities and structure functions in massless perturbative QCD. Present information on the corresponding three-loop splitting functions is used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 W. L. van Neerven , A. Vogt

We have calculated the complete matrix of three-loop helicity-difference (`polarized') splitting functions Delta P_ik^(2), i,k = q,g, in massless perturbative QCD. In this note we briefly discuss some properties of the polarized splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-15 A. Vogt , S. Moch , J. A. M. Vermaseren

We have calculated the n_f^2 and n_f^3 contributions to the flavour non-singlet structure functions F_2 and F_L in inclusive deep-inelastic scattering at the fourth order in the strong coupling alpha_s. The coefficient functions have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 A. Basdew-Sharma , A. Pelloni , Franz Herzog , A. Vogt

Both for quark flavor asymmetry and valence, we consider the anomalous dimension of the non-singlet twist-two quark operator of arbitrary Lorentz spin N at four loops in SU(nc) color gauge theory and present its term proportional to zeta(3)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 B. A. Kniehl , V. N. Velizhanin

We discuss recent results on the three-loop (next-to-next-to-leading order, NNLO) time-like splitting functions of QCD and the two-loop (NNLO) coefficient functions in one-particle inclusive e+e- annihilation. These results form the basis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Mitov , S. Moch , A. Vogt