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We compute the fermionic contribution to the photon-quark form factor to four-loop order in QCD in the planar limit in analytic form. From the divergent part of the latter the cusp and collinear anomalous dimensions are extracted. Results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-19 Johannes M. Henn , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Matthias Steinhauser

At the next generation of linear colliders, forward-backward asymmetries will be involved again in the precise determination of the neutral current couplings of heavy quarks in inclusive heavy-quark production. The theoretical understanding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Bonciani

We present an analytic expression for the two-loop QCD corrections to the decay process b -> u W^*, where b and u are a massive and massless quark, respectively, while W^* is an off-shell charged weak boson. Since the W-boson can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-27 R. Bonciani , A. Ferroglia

QCD evolution equations in $\text{MS}$-like schemes can be recovered from the same equations in a modified theory, QCD in non-integer $d=4-2\epsilon$ dimensions, which enjoys exact scale and conformal invariance at the critical point.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 V. M. Braun , A. N. Manashov

We present the mixed QCD-EW two-loop virtual amplitudes for the neutral current Drell-Yan production, one of the bottlenecks for the complete calculation of the NNLO mixed QCD-EW corrections. We present the computational details and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Simone Devoto

We studied the two-loop non-factorizable Feynman diagrams for the $t$-channel single-top production process in quantum chromodynamics. We present a systematic computation of master integrals of the two-loop Feynman diagrams with one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-12 Zihao Wu , Ming-Ming Long

We consider the diphoton production in hadronic collisions at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD, taking into account for the first time the full top quark mass dependence. We present the computation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-23 Federico Coro

We describe a constructive procedure to separate overlapping infrared divergences in multi-loop integrals. Working with a parametric representation in D=4-2*epsilon dimensions, adequate subtractions lead to a Laurent series in epsilon,…

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

Loop diagram calculations typically rely on reduction to a finite set of master integrals in $4 - 2\epsilon$ dimensions. It has been shown that for any problem, the masters can be chosen so that their coefficients are finite as $\epsilon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-06 Stephen P. Martin

Order $\alpha^2$ corrections to the decay rate of parapositronium are calculated. A QED scattering calculation of the amplitude for electron-positron annihilation into two photons at threshold is combined with the technique of effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Gregory S. Adkins , Nathan M. McGovern , Richard N. Fell , J. Sapirstein

We evaluate the corrections to the matching coefficient of the vector current between Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and Non-Relativistic QCD (NRQCD) to three-loop order containing a closed heavy-fermion loop. The result constitutes a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-24 P. Marquard , J. H. Piclum , D. Seidel , M. Steinhauser

The inclusive four-particle phase space integral of any $1\to 4$ matrix element in massless QCD contains divergences due to the soft and collinear emission of up to two particles in the final state. We show that any term appearing in this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Gehrmann-De Ridder , T. Gehrmann , G. Heinrich

We consider mixed strong-electroweak corrections to Higgs production via gluon fusion, in which the Higgs boson couples to the top quark. Using the method of differential equations, we compute all of the master integrals that contribute to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-04 Robin Marzucca , Andrew J. McLeod , Christoph Nega

The three-loop QCD contributions to the vacuum polarization functions of the $Z$ and $W$ bosons at zero momentum are calculated. The top quark is considered to be massive and the other quarks massless. Using these results, we calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-13 L. Avdeev , J. Fleischer , S. Mikhailov , O. Tarasov

In this paper we calculate at high-precision the Laurent expansions in e=(4-D)/2 of the 17 master integrals which appeared in the analytical calculation of 3-loop QED contribution to the electron g-2, using difference and differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. Laporta

We present our results for the NNLL virtual corrections to the matrix elements of the operators O_1 and O_2 for the inclusive process b\to s\ell^+\ell^- in the kinematical region q^2>4m_c^2, where q^2 is the invariant mass squared of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-20 Christoph Greub , Volker Pilipp , Christof Schüpbach

We report on progress for the analytical calculation of the two-loop corrections to top quark pair production at hadron colliders. For the light fermionic corrections in the gluon channel, we discuss the analytical solution for the master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-05 Andreas von Manteuffel , Cedric Studerus

We evaluate the on shell form factors of the electron for arbitrary momentum transfer and finite electron mass, at two loops in QED, by integrating the corresponding dispersion relations, which involve the imaginary parts known since a long…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Mastrolia , E. Remiddi

We present the analytic expressions of the three-loop virtual corrections to the helicity amplitudes of 2 -> 2 four-fermion scattering processes in massless QED. The contributing Feynman diagrams are grouped into integrand families…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Giulio Crisanti , Thomas Dave , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Jonathan Ronca , Sid Smith , William J. Torres Bobadilla

Recent progress in the calculation of multi-loop, multi-scale diagrams is reviewed. Expansion techniques combined with new developments in Computer algebra allow to evaluate the R ratio for massive quarks up to order $\alpha_s^2$ and,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Kuehn