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In a recent paper we have presented an automated subtraction method for divergent multi-loop/leg integrals in dimensional regularisation which allows for their numerical evaluation, and applied it to diagrams with massless internal lines.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Binoth , G. Heinrich

In the context of pure QED, we obtain analytic expressions for the contributions to the Bhabha scattering differential cross section at order alpha^4 which originate from the interference of two-loop photonic vertices with tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 R. Bonciani , A. Ferroglia

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

The three-loop master integrals for ladder-box diagrams with one massive leg are computed from an eighty-five by eighty-five system of differential equations, solved by means of Magnus exponential. The results of the considered box-type…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Stefano Di Vita , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Ulrich Schubert , 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

A short review is given of the simplified differential equations approach to Master Integrals, which was recently proposed by one of the authors. We show its applicability by calculating some non-trivial two-loop planar Master Integrals,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-23 Costas G. Papadopoulos , Damiano Tommasini , Christopher Wever

We consider the case of a two-loop five-point pentagon-box integral configuration with one internal massive propagator that contributes to top-quark pair production in association with a jet at hadron colliders. We construct the system of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-31 Simon Badger , Matteo Becchetti , Ekta Chaubey , Robin Marzucca

New method of calculation of master integrals using differential equations and asymptotical expansion is presented. This method leads to the results exact in space-time dimension $D$ having the form of the convergent power series. As an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Bogdan , R. N. Lee

The 4-th order Runge-Kutta method in the complex plane is proposed for numerically advancing the solutions of a system of first order differential equations in one external invariant satisfied by the master integrals related to a Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michele Caffo

We present analytic expressions in terms of polylogarithmic functions for all three families of planar two-loop five-point Master Integrals with one off-shell leg. The calculation is based on the Simplified Differential Equations approach.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 Dhimiter D. Canko , Costas G. Papadopoulos , Nikolaos Syrrakos

We extend the maximal unitarity method at two loops to double-box basis integrals with up to three external massive legs. We use consistency equations based on the requirement that integrals of total derivatives vanish. We obtain unique…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-08 Henrik Johansson , David A. Kosower , Kasper J. Larsen

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

The method for obtaining functional equations, recently proposed by one of the authors, is applied to one-loop box integrals needed in calculations of radiative corrections to heavy-quark production and Bhabha scattering. We present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 Bernd A. Kniehl , Oleg V. Tarasov

We compute $\epsilon$-factorized differential equations for all dimensionally-regularized integrals of the nonplanar hexa-box topology, which contribute for instance to 2-loop 5-point QCD amplitudes. A full set of pure integrals is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-04 Samuel Abreu , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

We describe in detail the calculation of the two-loop corrections to the QED Bhabha scattering cross section due to the vacuum polarization by heavy fermions. Our approach eliminates one mass scale from the most challenging part of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Bonciani , A. Ferroglia , A. A. Penin

We calculate two-loop massive master integrals for $e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrow2\gamma$ in terms of generalized power series with respect to electron mass. The coefficients of this series are expressed via Goncharov's polylogarithms. Our approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-07 Roman N. Lee , Vyacheslav A. Stotsky

We evaluate the two-loop QED corrections to the Bhabha scattering cross section which involve the vacuum polarization by heavy fermions of arbitrary mass m_f >> m_e. The results are valid for generic values of the Mandelstam invariants…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Bonciani , A. Ferroglia , A. A. Penin

This paper presents high-order integral equation methods for evaluation of electromagnetic wave scattering by dielectric bumps and dielectric cavities on perfectly conducting or dielectric half-planes. In detail, the algorithms introduced…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Carlos Pérez-Arancibia , Oscar P. Bruno

We calculate the two-loop virtual, UV renormalized corrections at order \alpha^4 (N_F=1) in QED to the Bhabha scattering differential cross section, for arbitrary values of the squared c.m. energy s and momentum transfer t, and on-shell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Bonciani , A. Ferroglia , P. Mastrolia , E. Remiddi , J. J. van der Bij

We study two-loop corrections to the scattering amplitude of four massive leptons in quantum electrodynamics. These amplitudes involve previously unknown elliptic Feynman integrals, which we compute analytically using the differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-14 Maximilian Delto , Claude Duhr , Lorenzo Tancredi , Yu Jiao Zhu