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We provide a sufficient condition for avoiding squared propagators in the intermediate stages of setting up differential equations for loop integrals. This condition is satisfied in a large class of two- and three-loop diagrams. For these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-04 Jorrit Bosma , Kasper J. Larsen , Yang Zhang

An analytical-numeric calculation method of extremely complicated integrals is presented. These integrals appear often in magnet soliton theory. The appropriate analytical continuation and a corresponding integration contour allow to reduce…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Zhmudsky

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

A formalism for the numerical integration of one- and two-loop integrals is presented. It is based on subtraction terms which remove the soft, collinear and some of the ultraviolet divergences from the integrand. The numerical integral is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-08 A. Freitas

We develop a unitarity method to compute one-loop amplitudes with massless propagators in d=4-2*epsilon dimensions. We compute double cuts of the loop amplitudes via a decomposition into a four-dimensional and a -2*epsilon-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Charalampos Anastasiou , Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Zoltan Kunszt , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

Detailed description of the calculation of the 2-loop self-energy for a scalar particle is presented. By employing a simple sector decomposition method, the ultraviolet divergent part is efficiently separated from the finite part. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-27 Kiyoshi Kato

We calculate the three-loop master integrals contributing to the three-loop five-point amplitude on the special Coulomb branch of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory. For the genuine pentagon integrals, we follow the approach of Ref. [JHEP 12 (2025)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Andrei V. Belitsky , Leonid V. Bork , Roman N. Lee , Andrei I. Onishchenko , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We propose a method for computing numerically integrals defined via $i \epsilon$ deformations acting on single-pole singularities. We achieve this without an explicit analytic contour deformation. Our solution is then used to produce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-21 Roberto Pittau , Bryan Webber

A very simple and accurate numerical method which is applicable to systems of differentio-integral equations with quite general boundary conditions has been devised. Although the basic idea of this method stems from the Keller Box method,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-30 Jian-Jun Shu , Graham Wilks

We present a first numerical implementation of the Loop-Tree Duality (LTD) method for the direct numerical computation of multi-leg one-loop Feynman integrals. We discuss in detail the singular structure of the dual integrands and define a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-06 Sebastian Buchta , Grigorios Chachamis , Petros Draggiotis , German Rodrigo

We reformulate differential equations (DEs) for Feynman integrals to avoid doubled propagators in intermediate steps. External momentum derivatives are dressed with loop momentum derivatives to form tangent vectors to unitarity cut…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-26 Mao Zeng

We consider a planar doublebox with four massive external momenta and two massive internal propagators. We derive the system of differential equations for the relevant master integrals, cast it in canonical form, write it as a $d\log$ form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-01 Marco S. Bianchi , Matias Leoni

We present a method to construct a suitable contour deformation in loop momentum space for multi-loop integrals. This contour deformation can be used to perform the integration for multi-loop integrals numerically. The integration can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Sebastian Becker , Stefan Weinzierl

We apply differential equations technique to the calculation of the one-loop massless diagram with one offshell legs. Using reduction to $\epsilon$-form, we managed to obtain a simple one-fold integral representation exact in space-time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-15 Mikhail G. Kozlov

Recent developments in the computation of two-loop master integrals for massive Bhabha scattering are briefly reviewed. We apply a method based on expansions of exact Mellin-Barnes representations and evaluate all planar four-point master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefano Actis , Michal Czakon , Janusz Gluza , Tord Riemann

We present an evaluation of the two master integrals for the crossed vertex diagram with a closed loop of top quarks that allows for an easy numerical implementation. The differential equations obeyed by the master integrals are used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Roberto Bonciani , Giuseppe Degrassi , Pier Paolo Giardino , Ramona Gröber

We compute all planar two-loop six-point Feynman integrals entering scattering observables in massless gauge theories such as QCD. A central result of this paper is the formulation of the differential-equations method under the algebraic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 Samuel Abreu , Pier Francesco Monni , Ben Page , Johann Usovitsch

We show how to compute the coefficients of the double box basis integrals in a massless four-point amplitude in terms of tree amplitudes. We show how to choose suitable multidimensional contours for performing the required cuts, and derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 David A. Kosower , Kasper J. Larsen

We determine the master integrals for vertex and propagator diagrams that appear in effective field theories containing heavy fields. The integrals involve at least one heavy line, and the standard lines include an arbitrary mass scale. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 B. Assi , B. A. Kniehl , A. I. Onishchenko

We present a new method to compute higher-order corrections to physical cross-sections, at Next-to-Leading Order and beyond. This method, based on the Loop Tree Duality, leads to locally integrable expressions in four dimensions. By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Felix Driencourt-Mangin