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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 compute the master integrals containing 2 and 3 massive propagators entering the planar amplitudes of the 2-loop electroweak form factor. The masses of the $W$, $Z$ and Higgs bosons are assumed to be degenerate. This work is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 U. Aglietti , R. Bonciani

We compute four-denominator angular phase-space integrals using the Mellin--Barnes (MB) technique in dimensional regularisation. Independent of the scattering process, an angular integral can be categorised based on the nature of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-25 Taushif Ahmed , Syed Mehedi Hasan , Andreas Rapakoulias

In this work, we investigate the finite basis topologies of two-loop dimensionally regularized Feynman integrals in the `t Hooft-Veltman scheme in the Standard Model. We present a functionally distinct finite basis of Master Integrals which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-28 Piotr Bargiela , Tong-Zhi Yang

We describe the calculation of all planar master integrals that are needed for the computation of NNLO QCD corrections to the production of two off-shell vector bosons in hadron collisions. The most complicated representatives of integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Johannes M. Henn , Kirill Melnikov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We calculate massive 5-propagator 2-loop integrals for operator matrix elements in the light-cone expansion, using Mellin-Barnes techniques and representations through generalized hypergeometric functions.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Bierenbaum , J. Blümlein , S. Klein

The two-loop radiative photonic corrections to the Bhabha scattering are computed in the leading order of the small electron mass expansion up to nonlogarithmic term. After including the soft photon bremsstrahlung we obtain the infrared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Penin

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 confirm by explicit computation the conjectured all-orders iteration of planar maximally supersymmetric N=4 Yang-Mills theory in the nontrivial case of five-point two-loop amplitudes. We compute the required unitarity cuts of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Bern , M. Czakon , D. A. Kosower , R. Roiban , V. A. Smirnov

We describe the application of a novel approach for the reduction of scattering amplitudes, based on multivariate polynomial division, which we have recently presented. This technique yields the complete integrand decomposition for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-17 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Edoardo Mirabella , Giovanni Ossola , Tiziano Peraro

We develop a method to obtain $\epsilon$-expansions of massless two-point integrals in position space, based on the constraints implied by symmetries of the asymptotic expansion of conformal four-point integrals. Together with parametric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-05 Alessandro Georgoudis , Vasco Gonçalves , Erik Panzer , Raul Pereira

Theoretical predictions for Bhabha scattering at the two-loop level require the inclusion of hadronic vacuum polarization in the photon propagator. We present predictions for the contributions from reducible amplitudes which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Johann H. Kühn , Sandro Uccirati

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 the symbol of the two-loop five-point scattering amplitude in $\mathcal{N}$ = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including its full color dependence. This requires constructing the symbol of all two-loop five-point nonplanar massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Samuel Abreu , Lance J. Dixon , Enrico Herrmann , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

We derive the four-dimensional integrand of the maximal-helicity-violating four-particle form factor for the chiral part of the stress-tensor supermultiplet in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at two loops. In our integrand…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-26 Tushar Gopalka , Enrico Herrmann

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

We present the analytic computation of the master integrals associated to certain two-loop non-planar topologies, which are needed to complete the evaluation of the last two color coefficients for the top-pair production in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-13 Matteo Becchetti , Roberto Bonciani , Valerio Casconi , Andrea Ferroglia , Simone Lavacca , Andreas von Manteuffel

We present a method for the computation of hepta-cuts of two loop scattering amplitudes. Four dimensional unitarity cuts are used to factorise the integrand onto the product of six tree-level amplitudes evaluated at complex momentum values.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-18 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

In this paper, we analytically compute all master integrals for one of the two non-planar integral families for five-particle massless scattering at two loops. We first derive an integral basis of 73 integrals with constant leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-18 D. Chicherin , T. Gehrmann , J. M. Henn , N. A. Lo Presti , V. Mitev , P. Wasser

In this paper we calculate at high-precision the expansions in e=(4-D)/2 of the master integrals of 4-loop vacuum bubble diagrams with equal masses, using a method based on the solution of systems of difference equations. We also show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefano Laporta