Functional equations for one-loop master integrals for heavy-quark production and Bhabha scattering

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.05.018MaRDI QIDQ994615zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Bernd A. Kniehl, Oleg V. Tarasov

Publication date 13 September 2010

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3729

zbMATH Keywords

functional equationsFeynman integralsAppell hypergeometric functionBhabha scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Appell, Horn and Lauricella functions (33C65)

Abstract: The method for obtaining functional equations, recently proposed by one of the authors, is applied to one-loop box integrals needed in calculations of radiative corrections to heavy-quark production and Bhabha scattering. We present relationships between these integrals with different arguments and box integrals with all propagators being massless. It turns out that functional equations are rather useful for finding imaginary parts and performing analytic continuations of Feynman integrals. For the box master integral needed in Bhabha scattering, a new representation in terms of hypergeometric functions admitting one-fold integral representation is derived. The hypergeometric representation of a master integral for heavy-quark production follows from the functional equation.

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