Published July 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

The two-mass contribution to the three-loop gluonic operator matrix element Agg,Q(3)

  • 1. Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC), Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstraße 69, A-4040, Linz (Austria)
  • 2. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen (Germany)
  • 3. Institut für Theoretische Teilchenphysik Campus Süd, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), D-76128 Karlsruhe (Germany)

Description

We calculate the two-mass QCD contributions to the massive operator matrix element Agg,Q at O(αs3) in analytic form in Mellin N- and z-space, maintaining the complete dependence on the heavy quark mass ratio. These terms are important ingredients for the matching relations of the variable flavor number scheme in the presence of two heavy quark flavors, such as charm and bottom. In Mellin N-space the result is given in the form of nested harmonic, generalized harmonic, cyclotomic and binomial sums, with arguments depending on the mass ratio. The Mellin inversion of these quantities to z-space gives rise to generalized iterated integrals with square root valued letters in the alphabet, depending on the mass ratio as well. Numerical results are presented.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2018.04.023

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2018.04.023;
arXiv
arXiv:1804.02226v1;
PII
S0550321318301202;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
932
Journal Page Range
p. 129-240
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

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© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.