Sunset integrals with up to three mass scales in chiral perturbation theory: a comparative study of the Mellin-Barnes representation technique
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| author | Ananthanarayan, Balasubramanian Banik, Sumit Bernard, Véronique Friot, Samuel Ghosh, Shayan Meißner, Ulf-G. |
| author_facet | Ananthanarayan, Balasubramanian Banik, Sumit Bernard, Véronique Friot, Samuel Ghosh, Shayan Meißner, Ulf-G. |
| contents | Sunset integrals are among the simplest of two-loop integrals that appear in perturbative quantum field theories and possess up to four distinct mass scales. By means of integration by parts identities, they can be written in terms of four distinct master integrals. In this article, we discuss the independent configurations of on-shell and off-shell sunset master integrals with one, two and three mass scales that arise in chiral perturbation theory. We derive Mellin-Barnes integral representations of these integrals and analytically solve them using various methods to obtain exact results in the form of single and double convergent series of the hypergeometric type, for the values of the mass parameters that allow us to do so. We then discuss how to analytically continue the results to other regions of the parameters and conclude by discussing a few applications in chiral perturbation theory. |
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| spellingShingle | Sunset integrals with up to three mass scales in chiral perturbation theory: a comparative study of the Mellin-Barnes representation technique Ananthanarayan, Balasubramanian Banik, Sumit Bernard, Véronique Friot, Samuel Ghosh, Shayan Meißner, Ulf-G. High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory Sunset integrals are among the simplest of two-loop integrals that appear in perturbative quantum field theories and possess up to four distinct mass scales. By means of integration by parts identities, they can be written in terms of four distinct master integrals. In this article, we discuss the independent configurations of on-shell and off-shell sunset master integrals with one, two and three mass scales that arise in chiral perturbation theory. We derive Mellin-Barnes integral representations of these integrals and analytically solve them using various methods to obtain exact results in the form of single and double convergent series of the hypergeometric type, for the values of the mass parameters that allow us to do so. We then discuss how to analytically continue the results to other regions of the parameters and conclude by discussing a few applications in chiral perturbation theory. |
| title | Sunset integrals with up to three mass scales in chiral perturbation theory: a comparative study of the Mellin-Barnes representation technique |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07727 |