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Title: Two-loop planar master integrals for the production of off-shell vector bosons in hadron collisions

Abstract

We describe the calculation of all planar master integrals that are needed for the computation of NNLO QCD corrections to the production of two off-shell vector bosons in hadron collisions. The most complicated representatives of integrals in this class are the two-loop four-point functions where two external lines are on the light-cone and two other external lines have different invariant masses. We compute these and other relevant integrals analytically using differential equations in external kinematic variables and express our results in terms of Goncharov polylogarithms. The case of two equal off-shellnesses, recently considered in Ref. [1], appears as a particular case of our general solution.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Inst. for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States)
  2. Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
  3. Moscow State Univ. (Russia). Skobeltsyn Inst. of Nuclear Physics
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1598517
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0009988; PHY-1214000
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2014; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; master integral; n-point function: 4; n-point function: analytic properties; hadron hadron: scattering; vector boson: pair production; off-shell; light cone; quantum chromodynamics: correction; correction: higher-order; higher-order: 2; NLO computations; QCD phenomenology

Citation Formats

Henn, Johannes M., Melnikov, Kirill, and Smirnov, Vladimir A. Two-loop planar master integrals for the production of off-shell vector bosons in hadron collisions. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP05(2014)090.
Henn, Johannes M., Melnikov, Kirill, & Smirnov, Vladimir A. Two-loop planar master integrals for the production of off-shell vector bosons in hadron collisions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2014)090
Henn, Johannes M., Melnikov, Kirill, and Smirnov, Vladimir A. Wed . "Two-loop planar master integrals for the production of off-shell vector bosons in hadron collisions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2014)090. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1598517.
@article{osti_1598517,
title = {Two-loop planar master integrals for the production of off-shell vector bosons in hadron collisions},
author = {Henn, Johannes M. and Melnikov, Kirill and Smirnov, Vladimir A.},
abstractNote = {We describe the calculation of all planar master integrals that are needed for the computation of NNLO QCD corrections to the production of two off-shell vector bosons in hadron collisions. The most complicated representatives of integrals in this class are the two-loop four-point functions where two external lines are on the light-cone and two other external lines have different invariant masses. We compute these and other relevant integrals analytically using differential equations in external kinematic variables and express our results in terms of Goncharov polylogarithms. The case of two equal off-shellnesses, recently considered in Ref. [1], appears as a particular case of our general solution.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP05(2014)090},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 5,
volume = 2014,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Wed May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}

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