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We identify two families of ten-point Feynman diagrams that generalize the elliptic double box, and show that they can be expressed in terms of the same class of elliptic multiple polylogarithms to all loop orders. Interestingly, one of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-05 Andrew McLeod , Roger Morales , Matt von Hippel , Matthias Wilhelm , Chi Zhang

Problems occurring in physically important non-trivial examples of loop calculations are discussed. A procedure of deriving expansions of two-loop self-energy diagrams with different masses is constructed. The cases of small and large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Davydychev

We derive a second-order differential equation for the two-loop sunrise graph in two dimensions with arbitrary masses. The differential equation is obtained by viewing the Feynman integral as a period of a variation of a mixed Hodge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-01 Stefan Müller-Stach , Stefan Weinzierl , Raphael Zayadeh

The two-loop QCD corrections to vector boson pair production at hadron colliders involve a new class of Feynman integrals: two-loop four-point functions with two off-shell external legs. We describe their reduction to a small set of master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-26 Thomas Gehrmann , Lorenzo Tancredi , Erich Weihs

Differential equations are one of the main approaches to evaluate multi-loop Feynman integrals. The construction of a canonical or $\varepsilon$-factorised basis for multi-loop integrals remains a key bottleneck for this approach,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Claude Duhr , Sara Maggio , Franziska Porkert , Cathrin Semper , Yoann Sohnle , Sven F. Stawinski

In this paper we develop further and refine the method of differential equations for computing Feynman integrals. In particular, we show that an additional iterative structure emerges for finite loop integrals. As a concrete non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Simon Caron-Huot , Johannes M. Henn

We discuss for the first time canonical differential equations for hyperelliptic Feynman integrals. We study hyperelliptic Lauricella functions that include in particular the maximal cut of the two-loop non-planar double box, which is known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 Claude Duhr , Franziska Porkert , Sven F. Stawinski

We present a new method for numerically computing generic multi-loop Feynman integrals. The method relies on an iterative application of Feynman's trick for combining two propagators. Each application of Feynman's trick introduces a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-30 Martijn Hidding , Johann Usovitsch

In this paper, we give a detailed account of the algorithm outlined in [1] for Feynman integral reduction and $\varepsilon$-factorised differential equations. The algorithm consists of two steps. In the first step, we use a new geometric…

Differential equations are a powerful tool to tackle Feynman integrals. In this talk we discuss recent progress, where the method of differential equations has been applied to Feynman integrals which are not expressible in terms of multiple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-14 Luise Adams , Christian Bogner , Ekta Chaubey , Armin Schweitzer , Stefan Weinzierl

We consider Feynman integrals with algebraic leading singularities and total differentials in $\epsilon\,\mathrm{d}\ln$ form. We show for the first time that it is possible to evaluate integrals with singularities involving unrationalizable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-18 Matthias Heller , Andreas von Manteuffel , Robert M. Schabinger

We compute all the planar three-loop master integrals relevant for the leading colour N3LO QCD corrections to the production of two massive or off-shell vector bosons at hadron colliders. These integrals are organised into nine four-point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-27 Dhimiter Canko , Mattia Pozzoli

We study a recently-proposed approach to the numerical evaluation of multi-loop Feynman integrals using available sector decomposition programs. As our main example, we consider the two-loop integrals for the $\alpha \alpha_s$ corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-08 Andreas von Manteuffel , Robert M. Schabinger

We use the method of differential equations to analytically evaluate all planar three-loop Feynman integrals relevant for form factor calculations involving massive particles. Our results for ninety master integrals at general $q^2$ are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Johannes M. Henn , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We present an algorithm for determining the minimal order differential equations associated to a given Feynman integral in dimensional or analytic regularisation. The algorithm is an extension of the Griffiths-Dwork pole reduction adapted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-21 Leonardo de la Cruz , Pierre Vanhove

We evaluate analytically all previously unknown nonplanar master integrals for massless five-particle scattering at two loops, using the differential equations method. A canonical form of the differential equations is obtained by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-23 D. Chicherin , T. Gehrmann , J. M. Henn , P. Wasser , Y. Zhang , S. Zoia

Two-loop corrections to scattering amplitudes are crucial theoretical input for collider physics. Recent years have seen tremendous advances in computing Feynman integrals, scattering amplitudes, and cross sections for five-particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Johannes Henn , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Yang Zhang

By carefully analyzing the relations between operator methods and the discretized and continuum path integral formulations of quantum-mechanical systems, we have found the correct Feynman rules for one-dimensional path integrals in curved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Jan de Boer , Bas Peeters , Kostas Skenderis , Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

Single scale Feynman integrals in quantum field theories obey difference or differential equations with respect to their discrete parameter $N$ or continuous parameter $x$. The analysis of these equations reveals to which order they…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-27 Johannes Blümlein

Scattering amplitudes at loop level can be expressed in terms of Feynman integrals. The latter satisfy partial differential equations in the kinematical variables. We argue that a good choice of basis for (multi-)loop integrals can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-26 Johannes M. Henn