Numerical evaluation of two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for $gg\to t \bar{t} g$ at leading colour

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Autori principali: Badger, Simon, Becchetti, Matteo, Brancaccio, Colomba, Hartanto, Heribertus Bayu, Zoia, Simone
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author Badger, Simon
Becchetti, Matteo
Brancaccio, Colomba
Hartanto, Heribertus Bayu
Zoia, Simone
author_facet Badger, Simon
Becchetti, Matteo
Brancaccio, Colomba
Hartanto, Heribertus Bayu
Zoia, Simone
contents We present the first benchmark evaluation of the two-loop finite remainders for the production of a top-quark pair in association with a jet at hadron colliders in the gluon channel. We work in the leading colour approximation, and perform the numerical evaluation in the physical phase space. To achieve this result, we develop a new method for expressing the master integrals in terms of a (over-complete) basis of special functions that enables the infrared and ultraviolet poles to be cancelled analytically despite the presence of elliptic Feynman integrals. The special function basis makes it manifest that the elliptic functions appear solely in the finite remainder, and can be evaluated numerically through generalised series expansions. The helicity amplitudes are constructed using four dimensional projectors combined with finite-field techniques to perform integration-by-parts reduction, mapping to special functions and Laurent expansion in the dimensional regularisation parameter.
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spellingShingle Numerical evaluation of two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for $gg\to t \bar{t} g$ at leading colour
Badger, Simon
Becchetti, Matteo
Brancaccio, Colomba
Hartanto, Heribertus Bayu
Zoia, Simone
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
We present the first benchmark evaluation of the two-loop finite remainders for the production of a top-quark pair in association with a jet at hadron colliders in the gluon channel. We work in the leading colour approximation, and perform the numerical evaluation in the physical phase space. To achieve this result, we develop a new method for expressing the master integrals in terms of a (over-complete) basis of special functions that enables the infrared and ultraviolet poles to be cancelled analytically despite the presence of elliptic Feynman integrals. The special function basis makes it manifest that the elliptic functions appear solely in the finite remainder, and can be evaluated numerically through generalised series expansions. The helicity amplitudes are constructed using four dimensional projectors combined with finite-field techniques to perform integration-by-parts reduction, mapping to special functions and Laurent expansion in the dimensional regularisation parameter.
title Numerical evaluation of two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for $gg\to t \bar{t} g$ at leading colour
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13876