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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

In this paper, we present analytical results for the two-loop QCD corrections to the production of two partons or a photon and a parton in hadronic collisions, mediated by loops of massive quarks. These amplitudes involve Feynman integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Federico Coro , Christoph Nega , Lorenzo Tancredi , Fabian J. Wagner

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

The factorisation of QCD matrix elements in the limit of two external partons becoming collinear is described by process-independent splitting amplitudes, which can be expanded systematically in perturbation theory. Working in conventional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Claude Duhr , Thomas Gehrmann , Matthieu Jaquier

Through this article, we show that the amplitudes for the $b\bar{b} \rightarrow ZH$ in the presence of bottom-Higgs Yukawa coupling can be constructed, up to a few anomalous diagrams, solely from a set of vector form factors of properly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-02 Taushif Ahmed

We present a novel type of differential equations for on-shell loop integrals. The equations are second-order and importantly, they reduce the loop level by one, so that they can be solved iteratively in the loop order. We present several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-22 James M. Drummond , Johannes M. Henn , Jaroslav Trnka

We compute the color-planar and complete light quark non-singlet contributions to the heavy quark form factors in the case of the axialvector, scalar and pseudoscalar currents at three loops in perturbative QCD. We evaluate the master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 J. Ablinger , J. Blümlein , P. Marquard , N. Rana , C. Schneider

The threshold behavior of the master amplitudes for two loop sunrise self-mass graph is studied by solving the system of differential equations, which they satisfy. The expansion at the threshold of the master amplitudes is obtained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Caffo , H. Czyz , E. Remiddi

We calculate the $gg\to\gamma\gamma$ amplitude by including the $t\bar t$ bound-state effects near their mass threshold. In terms of the non-relativistic expansion of the amplitude, the LO contribution is an energy-independent term in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-02 Sayaka Kawabata , Hiroshi Yokoya

We present a new method for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory. It extends the Generalized Unitarity method by constraining not only the integrand of the amplitude but also its full integrated form. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Piotr Bargiela

We consider one-loop amplitudes of a Higgs boson coupled to gluons in the limit of a large top quark mass. We treat the Higgs as the real part of a complex field phi that couples to the self-dual field strengths and compute the one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-22 Simon Badger , E. W. Nigel Glover , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Ciaran Williams

A combination of algebraical and numerical techniques for calculating two-loop top-quark and Higgs-boson corrections to electroweak precision observables like $\Delta r$ or the $\rho$-parameter is presented. The renormalization is performed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-02 S. Bauberger , G. Weiglein

We present results for the two-loop helicity amplitudes entering the NLO QCD corrections to the production of a Higgs boson in association with a $Z$-boson in gluon fusion. The two-loop integrals, involving massive top quarks, are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-18 Long Chen , Gudrun Heinrich , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Jonas Klappert , Johannes Schlenk

One- and two-dimensional harmonic polylogarithms, HPLs and GPLs, appear in calculations of multi-loop integrals. We discuss them in the context of analytical solutions for two-loop master integrals in the case of massive Bhabha scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Czakon , J. Gluza , T. Riemann

Spontaneous breaking of quantum scale invariance may provide a solution to the hierarchy and cosmological constant problems. In a scale-invariant regularization, we compute the two-loop potential of a higgs-like scalar $\phi$ in theories in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 D. M. Ghilencea , Z. Lalak , P. Olszewski

We present a method to numerically evaluate infrared-finite one- and two-loop integrals within the Four-Dimensional Regularization/Renormalization approach, in which a small mass serves as regulator. Typical integrals exhibit a logarithmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-08 Tom Zirke

We discuss the automatised calculation of the Higgs mass in renormalisable supersymmetric models with complex parameters at the two-loop level. Our setup is based on the public codes SARAH and SPheno, which can now compute the two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Mark D. Goodsell , Florian Staub

Threshold corrections to the bottom quark mass are often estimated under the approximation that tan$\beta$ enhanced contributions are the most dominant. In this work we revisit this common approximation made to the estimation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-02 Archana Anandakrishnan , B. Charles Bryant , Stuart Raby

In view of the forthcoming High-Luminosity phase of the LHC, next-to-next-to-next-to-leading (N$^3$LO) calculations for the most phenomenologically relevant processes become necessary. In this work, we take the first step towards this goal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-07 Thomas Gehrmann , Petr Jakubčík , Cesare Carlo Mella , Nikolaos Syrrakos , Lorenzo Tancredi

We compute the two-mass contributions to the polarized massive operator matrix element $A_{gg,Q}^{(3)}$ at third order in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$ in Quantum Chromodynamics analytically. These corrections are important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-27 J. Ablinger , J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , A. Goedicke , M. Saragnese , C. Schneider , K. Schönwald