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The Two-mass Contribution to the Three-Loop Polarized Operator Matrix Element $A_{gg,Q}^{(3)}$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-05-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We compute the two-mass contributions to the polarized massive operator matrix element Agg,Q(3)A_{gg,Q}^{(3)} at third order in the strong coupling constant αs\alpha_s in Quantum Chromodynamics analytically. These corrections are important ingredients for the matching relations in the variable flavor number scheme and for the calculation of Wilson coefficients in deep--inelastic scattering in the asymptotic regime Q2mc2,mb2Q^2 \gg m_c^2, m_b^2. The analytic result is expressed in terms of nested harmonic, generalized harmonic, cyclotomic and binomial sums in NN-space and by iterated integrals involving square-root valued arguments in zz space, as functions of the mass ratio. Numerical results are presented. New two--scale iterative integrals are calculated.

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@article{arxiv.2004.08916,
  title  = {The Two-mass Contribution to the Three-Loop Polarized Operator Matrix Element $A_{gg,Q}^{(3)}$},
  author = {J. Ablinger and J. Blümlein and A. De Freitas and A. Goedicke and M. Saragnese and C. Schneider and K. Schönwald},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.08916},
  year   = {2020}
}

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