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Some variations of the reduction of one-loop Feynman tensor integrals

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-04-20 v1

Abstract

We present a new algorithm for the reduction of one-loop \emph{tensor} Feynman integrals with n4n\leq 4 external legs to \emph{scalar} Feynman integrals InDI_n^D with n=3,4n=3,4 legs in DD dimensions, where D=d+2lD=d+2l with integer l0l \geq 0 and generic dimension d=42ϵd=4-2\epsilon, thus avoiding the appearance of inverse Gram determinants ()4()_4. As long as ()40()_4\neq 0, the integrals I3,4DI_{3,4}^D with D>dD>d may be further expressed by the usual dimensionally regularized scalar functions I2,3,4dI_{2,3,4}^d. The integrals I4DI_{4}^D are known at ()40()_4 \equiv 0, so that we may extend the numerics to small, non-vanishing ()4()_4 by applying a dimensional recurrence relation. A numerical example is worked out. Together with a recursive reduction of 6- and 5-point functions, derived earlier, the calculational scheme allows a stabilized reduction of nn-point functions with n6n\leq 6 at arbitrary phase space points. The algorithm is worked out explicitely for tensors of rank RnR\leq n.

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@article{arxiv.1006.0679,
  title  = {Some variations of the reduction of one-loop Feynman tensor integrals},
  author = {Jochem Fleischer and Tord Riemann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.0679},
  year   = {2011}
}

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8 pages, 1figure, 1 table, submitted to PoS(ACAT2010)074

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