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We evaluate analytically the master integrals for one of two types of planar families contributing to massive two-loop Bhabha scattering in QED. As in our previous paper, we apply a recently suggested new strategy to solve differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Johannes M. Henn , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We compute the (three) master integrals for the crossed ladder diagram with two exchanged quanta of equal mass. The differential equations obeyed by the master integrals are used to generate power series expansions centered around all the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 U. Aglietti , R. Bonciani , L. Grassi , E. Remiddi

This is a sequel of our previous paper where we described an algorithm to find a solution of differential equations for master integrals in the form of an $\epsilon$-expansion series with numerical coefficients. The algorithm is based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-15 Roman N. Lee , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We invent an automated method for computing the divergent part of Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization. Our method exploits simplifications from four-dimensional integration-by-parts identities. Leveraging algorithms from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-19 Johannes Henn , Rourou Ma , Kai Yan , Yang Zhang

We compute the master integrals that arise in the calculation of the leading penguin amplitudes in non-leptonic B-decays at two-loop order. The application of differential equations in a canonical basis enables us to give analytic results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Guido Bell , Tobias Huber

In this work we calculate two two-loop massless Feynman integrals pertaining to self-energy diagrams using NDIM (Negative Dimensional Integration Method). We show that the answer we get is 36-fold degenerate. We then consider special cases…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-13 Alfredo T. Suzuki , Alexandre G. M. Schmidt

Motivated by the results of the electroweak precision experiments, studies of two-loop self-energy Feynman diagrams are performed. An algebraic method for the reduction of all two-loop self-energies to a set of standard scalar integrals is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Bauberger , F. A. Berends , M. Böhm , M. Buza , G. Weiglein

We revisit the issue of analytically continuing Feynman integrals from Euclidean to Minkowski signature, allowing for generic complex momenta. Although this is well-known in terms of the K\"all\'{e}n-Lehmann representation, we consider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-09 David Dudal , Duifje Maria van Egmond , Gastao Krein

This paper contains an error analysis of two randomized explicit Runge-Kutta schemes for ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with time-irregular coefficient functions. In particular, the methods are applicable to ODEs of Carath\'eodory…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-13 Raphael Kruse , Yue Wu

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 demonstrate the effectiveness of a novel scheme for numerically solving linear differential equations whose solutions exhibit extreme oscillation. We take a standard Runge-Kutta approach, but replace the Taylor expansion formula with a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-12 W. J. Handley , A. N. Lasenby , M. P. Hobson

We give an algorithm for obtaining expansions of massive two-loop Feynman graphs in powers of the external momentum around a finite, nonzero value of the momentum. This is based on our general two-loop formalism to reduce massive two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Ghinculov , Y. P. Yao

We calculate analytically the master integrals of a planar double-box family for top-quark pair production using the method of differential equations. With a proper choice of the bases, the differential equations can be transformed to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Long-Bin Chen , Jian Wang

Feynman loop integrals are a key ingredient for the calculation of higher order radiation effects, and are responsible for reliable and accurate theoretical prediction. We improve the efficiency of numerical integration in sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-12 Zhao Li , Jian Wang , Qi-Shu Yan , Xiaoran Zhao

We introduce a class of iterated integrals that generalize multiple polylogarithms to elliptic curves. These elliptic multiple polylogarithms are closely related to similar functions defined in pure math- ematics and string theory. We then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-19 Johannes Broedel , Claude Duhr , Falko Dulat , Lorenzo Tancredi

We compute three families of two-loop six-point massless Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization, namely the double-box, the pentagon-triangle, and the hegaxon-bubble family. This constitutes the first analytic computation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-01 Johannes M. Henn , Antonela Matijašić , Julian Miczajka , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Yang Zhang

Multi-loop Feynman integrals are key objects for the high-order correction computations in high energy phenomenology. These integrals with multiple scales, may have complicated symbol structures. We show that the dual conformal symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Song He , Zhenjie Li , Rourou Ma , Zihao Wu , Qinglin Yang , Yang Zhang

We review the method of the differential equations for the evaluation of multi-loop Feynman integrals. In particular, we focus on the series expansion approach for solving the system of differential equation and we discuss how to perform…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-21 Tommaso Armadillo

We give numerical integration results for Feynman loop diagrams such as those covered by Laporta [1] and by Baikov and Chetyrkin [2], and which may give rise to loop integrals with UV singularities. We explore automatic adaptive integration…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-05 E. de Doncker , F. Yuasa , K. Kato , T. Ishikawa , J. Kapenga , O. Olagbemi

We present the two-loop sunrise integral with arbitrary non-zero masses in two space-time dimensions in terms of elliptic dilogarithms. We find that the structure of the result is as simple and elegant as in the equal mass case, only the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Luise Adams , Christian Bogner , Stefan Weinzierl