Published January 31, 2000 | Version v1
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Analytical results for dimensionally regularized massless on-shell double boxes with arbitrary indices and numerators

Description

We present an algorithm for the analytical evaluation of dimensionally regularized massless on-shell double box Feynman diagrams with arbitrary polynomials in numerators and general integer powers of propagators. Recurrence relations following from integration by parts are solved explicitly and any given double box diagram is expressed as a linear combination of two master double boxes and a family of simpler diagrams. The first master double box corresponds to all powers of the propagators equal to one and no numerators, and the second master double box differs from the first one by the second power of the middle propagator. By use of differential relations, the second master double box is expressed through the first one up to a similar linear combination of simpler double boxes so that the analytical evaluation of the first master double box provides explicit analytical results, in terms of polylogarithms Lia-t/s, up to a=4, and generalized polylogarithms Sa,b(-t/s), with a=1,2 and b=2, dependent on the Mandelstam variables s and t, for an arbitrary diagram under consideration

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Identifiers

PII
S0550321399006860;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
566
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 469-485
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35025448
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ALGORITHMS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; BOX MODELS; FEYNMAN DIAGRAM; MANDELSTAM REPRESENTATION; MASSLESS PARTICLES; PROPAGATOR
Descriptors DEC
DIAGRAMS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; INFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS

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Copyright (c) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.