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Numerical evaluation of phase space integrals by sector decomposition

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

In a series of papers we have developed the method of iterated sector decomposition for the calculation of infrared divergent multi-loop integrals. Here we apply it to phase space integrals to calculate a contribution to the double real emission part of the e+e- -> 2 jets cross section at NNLO. The explicit cancellation of infrared poles upon summation over all possible cuts of a given topology is worked out in detail for a specific example.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0402265,
  title  = {Numerical evaluation of phase space integrals by sector decomposition},
  author = {T. Binoth and G. Heinrich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0402265},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, 2 figures

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