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We present the analytic and compact two-loop helicity amplitudes for QCD and QED corrections to the light-by-light scattering process with massive internal fermions. We express the master integrals either in terms of multiple polylogarithms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Ajjath A H , Ekta Chaubey , Hua-Sheng Shao

We describe a calculation of the on-shell renormalization factors in QCD and QED at the three loop level. Explicit results for the fermion mass renormalization factor Zm and the on-shell fermion wave function renormalization constant Z2 are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kirill Melnikov , Timo van Ritbergen

We perform an analysis of the one- and two-loop massive quark form factor in QED in a region expansion, up to next-to-leading power in the quark mass. This yields an extensive set of regional integrals, categorized into three topologies,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Jaco ter Hoeve , Eric Laenen , Coenraad Marinissen , Leonardo Vernazza , Guoxing Wang

We compute the ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^3)$ virtual QCD corrections to the $\gamma^*\to q\bar q g$ matrix element arising from the interference of the two-loop with the tree-level amplitude and from the self-interference of the one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 L. W. Garland , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , A. Koukoutsakis , E. Remiddi

We compute the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for the process e^+e^- --> q bar{q} g. The amplitudes are extracted in a scheme-independent manner from the coefficients appearing in the general tensorial structure for this process. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 L. W. Garland , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , A. Koukoutsakis , E. Remiddi

The two-loop electron self-energy correction is one of the most problematic QED effects and, for a long time, was the dominant source of uncertainty in the theoretical prediction of the bound-electron $g$ factor in hydrogen-like ions. A…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 V. A. Yerokhin , B. Sikora , Z. Harman , C. H. Keitel

The one loop vertex in QED is calculated in arbitrary covariant gauges as an analytic function of its momenta. The vertex is decomposed into a longitudinal part, that is fully responsible for ensuring the Ward and Ward-Takahashi identities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-11 A. Kizilersu , M. Reenders , M. R. Pennington

We derive an explicit formula for the low energy limits of the one-loop, on-shell, massive N-photon amplitudes, for arbitrary N and all helicity assignments, in scalar and spinor QED. The two-loop corrections to the same amplitudes are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Louise C. Martin , Christian Schubert , Victor M. Villanueva Sandoval

We present the analytic evaluation of the two-loop corrections to the amplitude for the scattering of four fermions in Quantum Electrodynamics, $f^- + f^+ + F^- + F^+ \to 0$, with $f$ and $F$ representing a massless and a massive lepton,…

Electron scattering at large Q^2 probes a nucleon's quark core. This core's contribution to electromagnetic form factors may be calculated using Poincare' covariant Faddeev amplitudes combined with a nucleon-photon vertex that automatically…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A Hoell , R. Alkofer , M. Kloker , A. Krassnigg , C. D. Roberts , S. V. Wright

A formula for the two-loop infrared singularities of dimensionally regularized QCD scattering amplitudes with an arbitrary number of massive and massless legs is derived. The singularities are obtained from the solution of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Thomas Becher , Matthias Neubert

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

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 derive a compact expression for the three-point MHV form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills at two loops. The main tools of our calculation are generalised unitarity applied at the form factor level, and the compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini , Gang Yang

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 compute the leading mass corrections to the high-energy behavior of the massive quark vector form factor to three loops in QCD in the double-logarithmic approximation.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-28 Tao Liu , Alexander A. Penin , Nikolai Zerf

We derive the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for the processes $l q \to l qg$ ($l \bar q \to l \bar q g$) and $l g \to l q\bar q$, which are the partonic reactions yielding $(2+1)$-jet final states in deep inelastic lepton nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover

The electromagnetic form factors of the proton are obtained using a particular realization of QCD in the large $N_c$ limit (${QCD}_{\infty}$), which sums up the infinite number of zero-width resonances to yield an Euler's Beta function…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 C. A. Dominguez , T. Thapedi

We compute the two-loop QED helicity amplitudes for the scattering of a lepton pair with an off-shell and an on-shell photon, $0\to\ell\bar\ell\gamma\gamma^*$, using the approximation of massless leptons. We express all master integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-10 Simon Badger , Jakub Kryś , Ryan Moodie , Simone Zoia

The quark form factor is known to exponentiate within the framework of dimensionally regularized perturbative QCD. The logarithm of the form factor is expressed in terms of integrals over the scale of the running coupling. I show that these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Lorenzo Magnea