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A new approach to compute Feynman Integrals is presented. It relies on an integral representation of a given Feynman Integral in terms of simpler ones. Using this approach, we present, for the first time, results for a certain family of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Costas G. Papadopoulos , Christopher Wever

We calculate analytically the three-loop planar master integrals relevant for heavy-to-light form factors using the method of differential equations. After choosing a proper canonical basis, the boundary conditions are easy to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-24 Long-Bin Chen , Jian Wang

We compute all master integrals for massless three-loop four-particle scattering amplitudes required for processes like di-jet or di-photon production at the LHC. We present our result in terms of a Laurent expansion of the integrals in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Johannes Henn , Bernhard Mistlberger , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Pascal Wasser

We present the analytic calculation of two-loop master integrals that are relevant for $tW$ production at hadron colliders. We focus on the integral families with only one massive propagator. After choosing a canonical basis, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Long-Bin Chen , Jian Wang

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

Using the parallel/orthogonal space method, we calculate the planar two-loop three-point diagram and two rotated reduced planar two-loop three-point diagrams. Together with the crossed topology, these diagrams are the most complicated ones…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 Stefan Groote , Markus M. Knodel

In order to calculate cross sections with a large number of particles/jets in the final state at next-to-leading order, one has to reduce the occurring scalar and tensor one-loop integrals to a small set of known integrals. In massless…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Heinrich , T. Binoth

The two-loop box contributions to massive Bhabha scattering may be reduced to two-loop box master integrals (MIs) with five, six, and seven internal lines, plus vertices and self energies. The self-energy and vertex MIs may be solved…

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

I give an efficient algorithm for the reduction of multi-leg one-loop integrals of rank one. The method combines the basic ideas of the spinor algebra approach with the dual vector approach and is applicable to box integrals or higher point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Weinzierl

We present analytic expressions in terms of polylogarithmic functions for all three families of planar two-loop five-point Master Integrals with one off-shell leg. The calculation is based on the Simplified Differential Equations approach.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 Dhimiter D. Canko , Costas G. Papadopoulos , Nikolaos Syrrakos

The differential equation in the external invariant p^2 satisfied by the master integral of the general massive 2-loop 4-denominator self-mass diagram is exploited and the expansion of the master integral at p^2=0 is obtained analytically.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 M. Caffo , H. Czyz , A. Grzelinska , E. Remiddi

We present the calculation of the master integrals needed for the two-loop QCDxEW corrections to $ q + \bar{q} \to l^- + l^+$ and $ q + \bar{q}' \to l^- + \overline{\nu} \, , $ for massless external particles. We treat W and Z bosons as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Roberto Bonciani , Stefano Di Vita , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Ulrich Schubert

We present a formalism for the calculation of multi-particle one-loop amplitudes, valid for an arbitrary number N of external legs, and for massive as well as massless particles. A new method for the tensor reduction is suggested which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-16 T. Binoth , J. Ph. Guillet , G. Heinrich , E. Pilon , C. Schubert

A simplified differential equations approach for Master Integrals is presented. It allows to express them, straightforwardly, in terms of Goncharov Polylogarithms. As a proof-of-concept of the proposed method, results at one and two loops…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-15 Costas G. Papadopoulos

We discuss a progress in calculation of Feynman integrals which has been done with help of the differential equation method and demonstrate the results for a class of two-point two-loop diagrams.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Kotikov

The scalar two-loop self-energy master diagram is studied in the case of arbitrary masses. Analytical results in terms of Lauricella- and Appell-functions are presented for the imaginary part. By using the dispersion relation a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Bauberger , M. Boehm

One remaining problem of unitarity cut method for one-loop integral reduction is that tadpole coefficients can not be straightforward obtained through this way. In this paper, we reconsider the problem by applying differential operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Bo Feng , Tingfei Li , Xiaodi Li

In this paper, we describe a numerical approach to evaluate Feynman loop integrals. In this approach the key technique is a combination of a numerical integration method and a numerical extrapolation method. Since the computation is carried…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-21 F. Yuasa , T. Ishikawa , Y. Kurihara , J. Fujimoto , Y. Shimizu , N. Hamaguchi , E. de Doncker , K. Kato

The calculation of massive 2--loop operator matrix elements, required for the higher order Wilson coefficients for heavy flavor production in deeply inelastic scattering, leads to new types of multiple infinite sums over harmonic sums and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 I. Bierenbaum , J. Blümlein , S. Klein , C. Schneider

We study the problem of calculating two-loop three-point diagrams with irreducible numerators (i.e. numerators which cannot be expressed in terms of the denominators). For the case of massless internal particles and arbitrary (off-shell)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Natalia I. Ussyukina , Andrei I. Davydychev