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Two-loop master integrals for a planar topology contributing to $pp \rightarrow t\bar{t}j$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-03-31 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

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 differential equations for all the master integrals in a canonical form where the analytic form is reconstructed from numerical evaluations over finite fields. We find that the system can be represented as a sum of d-logarithmic forms using an alphabet of 71 letters. Using high precision boundary values obtained via the auxiliary mass flow method, a numerical solution to the master integrals is provided using generalised power series expansions.

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@article{arxiv.2210.17477,
  title  = {Two-loop master integrals for a planar topology contributing to $pp \rightarrow t\bar{t}j$},
  author = {Simon Badger and Matteo Becchetti and Ekta Chaubey and Robin Marzucca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.17477},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

31 pages, 47 figures, ancillary material attached to the submission. Version v3 as published in JHEP

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