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Direct numerical evaluation of multi-loop integrals without contour deformation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-01-21 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We propose a method for computing numerically integrals defined via iϵi \epsilon deformations acting on single-pole singularities. We achieve this without an explicit analytic contour deformation. Our solution is then used to produce precise Monte Carlo estimates of multi-scale multi-loop integrals directly in Minkowski space. We corroborate the validity of our strategy by presenting several examples ranging from one to three loops. When used in connection with four-dimensional regularization techniques, our treatment can be extended to ultraviolet and infrared divergent integrals.

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@article{arxiv.2110.12885,
  title  = {Direct numerical evaluation of multi-loop integrals without contour deformation},
  author = {Roberto Pittau and Bryan Webber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.12885},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

22 pages, 18 figures, final version to appear in EPJC

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