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Among the unitarity cuts of 4-loop massless propagators two kinds are currently fully known: the 2-particle cuts with 3 loops corresponding to form-factors, and the 5-particle phase-space integrals. In this paper we calculate master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Vitaly Magerya , Andrey Pikelner

We compute the complete set of two-loop master integrals for the scattering of four massless particles and a massive one. Our results are ready for phenomenological applications, removing a major obstacle to the computation of complete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-03 Samuel Abreu , Dmitry Chicherin , Harald Ita , Ben Page , Vasily Sotnikov , Wladimir Tschernow , Simone Zoia

We present numerical results which are needed to evaluate all non-trivial master integrals for four-loop massless propagators, confirming the recent analytic results of[1]and evaluating an extra order in $\ep$ expansion for each master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 A. V. Smirnov , M. Tentyukov

We compute angular phase-space integrals with three and four denominators analytically, working within dimensional regularisation via the Mellin-Barnes (MB) representation. The approach converts multifold MB integrals into real parametric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Taushif Ahmed , Syed Mehedi Hasan , Andreas Rapakoulias

Factorization in gauge theories holds at the amplitude or amplitude-squared level for states of given soft or collinear momenta. When performing phase-space integrals over such states, one would generally like to avoid putting in explicit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Ilya Feige , Matthew D. Schwartz , Kai Yan

Among the unitarity cuts of massless 4-loop propagators two classes have remained unknown until recently: 2-loop 3-particle cuts, and 1-loop 4-particle cuts. In this article we shall discuss the calculation that completes the master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-16 Vitaly Magerya , Andrey Pikelner

Within the framework of local analytic sector subtraction, we present the full analytic integration of double-real and real-virtual local infrared counterterms that enter NNLO QCD computations with any number of massless final-state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-17 Lorenzo Magnea , Giovanni Pelliccioli , Chiara Signorile-Signorile , Paolo Torrielli , Sandro Uccirati

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

We propose a new method of computing real emission contributions to hard QCD processes. Our approach uses sector decomposition of the exclusive final-state phase space to enable extraction of all singularities of the real emission matrix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Anastasiou , Kirill Melnikov , Frank Petriello

We compute the full set of two-loop Feynman integrals appearing in massless two-loop four-point functions with two off-shell legs with the same invariant mass. These integrals allow to determine the two-loop corrections to the amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-13 Thomas Gehrmann , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi , Erich Weihs

The four-loop QCD corrections to the electroweak $\rho$-parameter arising from top and bottom quark loops are computed. Specifically we evaluate the missing ``non-singlet'' piece. Using algebraic methods the amplitude is reduced to a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. G. Chetyrkin , M. Faisst , J. H. Kühn , P. Maierhoefer , C. Sturm

We report on the next-to-leading order QCD calculation for e+ e- --> 4 jets. We explain some modern techniques which have been used to calculate the one-loop amplitudes efficiently. We further report on the general purpose numerical program…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefan Weinzierl

We analytically compute the four-loop QCD corrections for the colour structure $(d_F^{abcd})^2$ to the massless non-singlet quark form factor. The computation involves non-trivial non-planar integral families which have master integrals in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Roman N. Lee , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Matthias Steinhauser

We present theoretical predictions for five jet production in proton-proton collisions at next-to-leading order accuracy in QCD. Inclusive as well as differential observables are studied for collision energies of 7 and 8 TeV. In general the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-26 Simon Badger , Benedikt Biedermann , Peter Uwer , Valery Yundin

We compute the two-loop master integrals for leading-color QCD scattering amplitudes including a closed light-quark loop in $t\bar{t}H$ production at hadron colliders. Exploiting numerical evaluations in modular arithmetic, we construct a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-18 F. Febres Cordero , G. Figueiredo , M. Kraus , B. Page , L. Reina

We present the bare one-, two-, and three-loop form factors in massless Quantum Chromodynamics as linear combinations of finite master integrals. Using symbolic integration, we compute their $\epsilon$ expansions and thereby reproduce all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-30 Andreas von Manteuffel , Erik Panzer , Robert M. Schabinger

We calculate master integrals for bipartite cuts of the three-loop propagator QED diagrams. These master integrals determine the spectral density of the photon self energy. Our results are expressed in terms of the iterated integrals,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 R. N. Lee , A. I. Onishchenko

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

We study multi-propagator angular integrals, a class of phase-space integrals relevant to processes with multiple observed final states and a test-bed for transferring loop-integral technology to phase space integrals without reversed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-17 Juliane Haug , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Fabian Wunder

We present the complete set of planar master integrals relevant to the calculation of three-point functions in four-loop massless Quantum Chromodynamics. Employing direct parametric integrations for a basis of finite integrals, we give…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-22 Andreas von Manteuffel , Robert M. Schabinger