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Two-Loop Master Integrals for $\gamma^{*} \to 3$ Jets: the Non-Planar Topologies

The calculation of the two-loop corrections to the three-jet production rate and to event shapes in electron--positron annihilation requires the computation of a number of two-loop four-point master integrals with one off-shell and three on-shell legs. Up to now, only those master integrals correspo...

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Autores principales: Gehrmann, T, Remiddi, E
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00074-8
http://cds.cern.ch/record/483383
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Sumario:The calculation of the two-loop corrections to the three-jet production rate and to event shapes in electron--positron annihilation requires the computation of a number of two-loop four-point master integrals with one off-shell and three on-shell legs. Up to now, only those master integrals corresponding to planar topologies were known. In this paper, we compute the yet outstanding non-planar master integrals by solving differential equations in the external invariants which are fulfilled by these master integrals. We obtain the master integrals as expansions in $\e=(4-d)/2$, where $d$ is the space-time dimension. The fully analytic results are expressed in terms of the two-dimensional harmonic polylogarithms already introduced in the evaluation of the planar topologies.