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We describe the implementation of infrared subtractions for two-loop QCD corrections to quark-antiquark annihilation to electroweak final states. The subtractions are given as form-factor integrands whose integrals are known. The resulting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-21 Charalampos Anastasiou , George Sterman

We review the construction of locally finite two-loop amplitude integrands for photoproduction via quark annihilation, presented in arXiv:2509.07805. Building on established techniques for off-shell colorless production, we extend this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Charalampos Anastasiou , Julia Karlen , Roshni Sahoo , George Sterman , Matilde Vicini

The computation of two-loop amplitudes for the production of multiple Higgs and electroweak gauge bosons via gluon fusion with exact dependence on quark masses relies primarily on numerical methods. We propose a framework that enables their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-13 Charalampos Anastasiou , Julia Karlen , George Sterman , Aniruddha Venkata

We study the singularity structure of two-loop QED amplitudes for the production of multiple off-shell photons in massless electron-positron annihilation and develop counterterms that remove their infrared and ultraviolet divergences point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-26 Charalampos Anastasiou , Rayan Haindl , George Sterman , Zhou Yang , Mao Zeng

We present a local subtraction scheme that enables the combined integration of loop momenta and the final-state parton phase space in real-virtual NNLO QCD corrections to cross sections for hadroproduction of electroweak and other colorless…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-02 Charalampos Anastasiou , Julia Karlen , Yao Ma , George Sterman

The construction of integrands free of infrared and ultraviolet singularities may enable the application of numerical methods to evaluate loop amplitudes that are inaccessible with analytic techniques. At two loops, finite amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Charalampos Anastasiou , Julia Karlen , Roshni Sahoo , George Sterman , Matilde Vicini

In this thesis, we study the three-loop QCD form factors. After an introduction and a discussion of the physics motivation, we generate the quark form factor using Qgraf. We then show how to bring the Feynman integrals into a unique form by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-04 Beat Toedtli

We compute the three-loop QCD corrections to the massive quark-anti-quark-photon form factors $F_1$ and $F_2$ in the large-$N_c$ limit. The analytic results are expressed in terms of Goncharov polylogarithms. This allows for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Johannes Henn , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Matthias Steinhauser

We describe the calculation of the three-loop QCD corrections to quark and gluon form factors. The relevant three-loop Feynman diagrams are evaluated and the resulting three-loop Feynman integrals are reduced to a small set of known master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-15 T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , T. Huber , N. Ikizlerli , C. Studerus

The three-loop QCD contributions to the vacuum polarization functions of the $Z$ and $W$ bosons at zero momentum are calculated. The top quark is considered to be massive and the other quarks massless. Using these results, we calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-13 L. Avdeev , J. Fleischer , S. Mikhailov , O. Tarasov

We present an analytic computation of the two-loop QCD corrections to $u\bar{d}\to W^+b\bar{b}$ for an on-shell $W$-boson using the leading colour and massless bottom quark approximations. We perform an integration-by-parts reduction of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-14 Simon Badger , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Simone Zoia

We compute the three-loop corrections to the quark axial vector form factor in massless QCD, focusing on the pure-singlet contributions where the axial vector current couples to a closed quark loop. Employing the Larin prescription for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 T. Gehrmann , A. Primo

We present the NNLO QCD virtual corrections for qurak-antiquark -> gluon photon, quark-antiquark -> photon photon and the NNLO QED virtual corrections for electron positron -> photon photon and all processes related by crossing symmetry. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Anastasiou , E. W. N. Glover , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

We present the analytic results for the non-singlet contributions to the three-loop mixed strong-electroweak ${\mathcal{O}}(\alpha_s^2\alpha)$ virtual corrections to the quark form factors. The primary challenge of this computation arises…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 Tanmoy Pati , Narayan Rana , V. Ravindran

We compute squared matrix elements at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics for the production of two or three (on- or off-shell) photons mediated via (light or heavy) quark loops. Our method handles all cases…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Dario Kermanschah , Matilde Vicini

We compute the three-loop QCD corrections to the massive quark-anti-quark-photon form factors $F_1$ and $F_2$ involving a closed loop of massless fermions. This subset is gauge invariant and contains both planar and non-planar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-18 Roman N. Lee , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Matthias Steinhauser

We present an analytical calculation of the two-loop QCD corrections to the electromagnetic form factor of heavy quarks. The two-loop contributions to the form factor are reduced to linear combinations of master integrals, which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-29 J. Gluza , A. Mitov , S. Moch , T. Riemann

We present the analytic expressions for the color-planar contributions to the heavy-light form factors at three loops in perturbative QCD. These form factors play an important role in the precision predictions of various observables in top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-24 Sudeepan Datta , Narayan Rana , V. Ravindran , Ratan Sarkar

We calculate the two-loop QCD correction to the scalar quark contributions to the electroweak gauge-boson self-energies at zero momentum-transfer in the supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model. We then derive the $O(\alpha_s)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 A. Djouadi , P. Gambino , S. Heinemeyer , W. Hollik , C. Jünger , G. Weiglein

We consider electroweak radiative corrections to hard inclusive processes at the TeV scale, and we investigate how collinear logarithms factorize in a spontaneously broken gauge theory, similarly to the DGLAP analysis in QCD. Due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Ciafaloni , P. Ciafaloni , D. Comelli
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