Dimensionally regulated one-loop box scalar integrals with massless internal lines

Using the Feynman parameter method, we have calculated in an elegant manner a set of one-loop box scalar integrals with massless internal lines, but containing 0, 1, 2, or 3 external massive lines. To treat IR divergences (both soft and collinear), the dimensional regularization method has been employed. The results for these integrals, which appear in the process of evaluating one-loop -point integrals and in subdiagrams in QCD loop calculations, have been obtained for arbitrary values of the relevant kinematic variables and are presented in a simple and compact form. Received: 8 March 2001 / Published online: 18 May 2001     

New relationships between Feynman integrals

New types of relationships between Feynman integrals are presented. It is shown that Feynman integrals satisfy functional equations connecting integrals with different values of scalar invariants and masses. A method is proposed for obtaining such relations. The derivation of functional equations for one-loop propagator- and vertex-type integrals is given. It is shown that a propagator-type integral can be written as a sum of two integrals with modified scalar invariants and one propagator massless. The vertex-type integral can be written as a sum over vertex integrals with all but one propagator massless and one external momenta squared equal to zero. It is demonstrated that the functional equations can be used for the analytic continuation of Feynman integrals to different kinematic domains.     

Calculating contracted tensor Feynman integrals

A recently derived approach to the tensor reduction of 5-point one-loop Feynman integrals expresses the tensor coefficients by scalar 1-point to 4-point Feynman integrals completely algebraically. In this Letter we derive extremely compact algebraic expressions for the contractions of the tensor integrals with external momenta. This is based on sums over signed minors weighted with scalar products of the external momenta. With these contractions one can construct the invariant amplitudes of the matrix elements under consideration, and the evaluation of one-loop contributions to massless and massive multi-particle production at high energy colliders like LHC and ILC is expected to be performed very efficiently.     

Double-real corrections at $${{\mathcal {O}}(\alpha \alpha _s)}\,$$to single gauge boson production

We consider the \({{\mathcal {O}}(\alpha \alpha _s)}\,\)corrections to single on-shell gauge boson production at hadron colliders. We concentrate on the contribution of all the subprocesses where the gauge boson is accompanied by the emission of two additional real partons and we evaluate the corresponding total cross sections. The latter are divergent quantities, because of soft and collinear emissions, and are expressed as Laurent series in the dimensional regularization parameter. The total cross sections are evaluated by means of reverse unitarity, i.e. expressing the phase-space integrals in terms of two-loop forward box integrals with cuts on the final-state particles. The results are reduced to a combination of master integrals, which eventually are evaluated in terms of generalized polylogarithms. The presence of internal massive lines in the Feynman diagrams, due to the exchange of electroweak gauge bosons, causes the appearance of 14 master integrals which were not previously known in the literature and have been evaluated via differential equations.     

Automated computation of one-loop integrals in massless theories

We consider one-loop tensor and scalar integrals, which occur in a massless quantum field theory, and we report on the implementation into a numerical program of an algorithm for the automated computation of these one-loop integrals. The number of external legs of the loop integrals is not restricted. All calculations are done within dimensional regularization.Received: 21 February 2005, Revised: 31 March 2005, Published online: 13 May 2005     

Zeta function regularization of path integrals in curved spacetime

This paper describes a technique for regularizing quadratic path integrals on a curved background spacetime. One forms a generalized zeta function from the eigenvalues of the differential operator that appears in the action integral. The zeta function is a meromorphic function and its gradient at the origin is defined to be the determinant of the operator. This technique agrees with dimensional regularization where one generalises ton dimensions by adding extra flat dimensions. The generalized zeta function can be expressed as a Mellin transform of the kernel of the heat equation which describes diffusion over the four dimensional spacetime manifold in a fith dimension of parameter time. Using the asymptotic expansion for the heat kernel, one can deduce the behaviour of the path integral under scale transformations of the background metric. This suggests that there may be a natural cut off in the integral over all black hole background metrics. By functionally differentiating the path integral one obtains an energy momentum tensor which is finite even on the horizon of a black hole. This energy momentum tensor has an anomalous trace.     

Two-loop vertices in quantum field theory: infrared convergent scalar configurations

A comprehensive study is performed of general massive, scalar, two-loop Feynman diagrams with three external legs. Algorithms for their numerical evaluation are introduced and discussed, numerical results are shown for all different topologies and comparisons with analytical results, whenever available, are performed. An internal cross-check, based on alternative procedures, is also applied. The analysis of infrared divergent configurations, as well as the treatment of tensor integrals, will be discussed in two forthcoming papers.     

Numerical evaluation of multi-loop integrals by sector decomposition

In a recent paper [Nucl. Phys. B 585 (2000) 741] we have presented an automated subtraction method for divergent multi-loop/leg integrals in dimensional regularisation which allows for their numerical evaluation, and applied it to diagrams with massless internal lines. Here we show how to extend this algorithm to Feynman diagrams with massive propagators and arbitrary propagator powers. As applications, we present numerical results for the master 2-loop 4-point topologies with massive internal lines occurring in Bhabha scattering at two loops, and for the master integrals of planar and non-planar massless double box graphs with two off-shell legs. We also evaluate numerically some two-point functions up to 5 loops relevant for beta-function calculations, and a 3-loop 4-point function, the massless on-shell planar triple box. Whereas the 4-point functions are evaluated in non-physical kinematic regions, the results for the propagator functions are valid for arbitrary kinematics.     

Smoothing regularization and particle creation in curved spacetime

A regularization procedure is given for the stress tensor of a quantized field in a background metric. This regularization is shown to be equivalent to a covariant renormalization of constants in the generalized Einstein equations. An example of the massive spinor field in Robertson-Walker universe is considered. Regular values of the stress tensor near the cosmological singularity are found.     

Reduction method for dimensionally regulatedone-loop <Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-point Feynman integrals

We present a systematic method for reducing an arbitrary one-loop N-point massless Feynman integral with generic 4-dimensional momenta to a set comprised of eight fundamental scalar integrals: six box integrals in D = 6, a triangle integral in D = 4, and a general two-point integral in D space-time dimensions. All the divergences present in the original integral are contained in the general two-point integral and associated coefficients. The problem of vanishing of the kinematic determinants has been solved in an elegant and transparent manner. Being derived with no restrictions regarding the external momenta, the method is completely general and applicable for arbitrary kinematics. In particular, it applies to the integrals in which the set of external momenta contains subsets comprised of two or more collinear momenta, which are unavoidable when calculating one-loop contributions to the hard-scattering amplitude for exclusive hadronic processes at large-momentum transfer in PQCD. The iterative structure makes it easy to implement the formalism in an algebraic computer program.Received: 18 August 2003, Revised: 6 February 2004, Published online: 23 April 2004     

Master integrals for massless three-loop form factors: One-loop and two-loop insertions

The three-loop form factors in massless QCD can be expressed as a linear combination of master integrals. Besides a number of master integrals which factorise into products of one-loop and two-loop integrals, one finds 16 genuine three-loop integrals. Of these, six have the form of a bubble insertion inside a one-loop or two-loop vertex integral. We compute all master integrals with these insertion topologies.     

Two-loop relevant parts ofD-dimensional massive scalar one-loop integrals

The calculation of two-loop Feynman integrals within the dimensional regularization scheme requires the knowledge of scalar one-loop integrals up to the linear term inD-4. We give the corresponding explicit expressions in terms of polylogarithms for the general one-, two-and three-point function and for a special case of the fourpoint function needed for vertex corrections. Our results are valid in all kinematical regions for real masses and momenta.     

三维位势问题边界元法中几乎奇异积分的正则化

采用一种半解析正则化算法,计算了三维位势问题边界元法中近边界点的几乎强奇异和几乎超奇异面积分.该算法适用于三角形线性等参元.对高次单元将其细分为几个三节点三角形单元即可应用该算法.由于几乎奇异性,与内点邻近的单元上的积分,采用半解析正则化积分算法计算;而远处单元的积分仍保持常规高斯积分.对三维热传导算例,计算了近边界点的温度和热流.数值结果证明了该算法的有效性和精确性.     

Solving the hypersingular boundary integral equation in three-dimensional acoustics using a regularization relationship

Regularization of the hypersingular integral in the normal derivative of the conventional Helmholtz integral equation through a double surface integral method or regularization relationship has been studied. By introducing the new concept of discretized operator matrix, evaluation of the double surface integrals is reduced to calculate the product of two discretized operator matrices. Such a treatment greatly improves the computational efficiency. As the number of frequencies to be computed increases, the computational cost of solving the composite Helmholtz integral equation is comparable to that of solving the conventional Helmholtz integral equation. In this paper, the detailed formulation of the proposed regularization method is presented. The computational efficiency and accuracy of the regularization method are demonstrated for a general class of acoustic radiation and scattering problems. The radiation of a pulsating sphere, an oscillating sphere, and a rigid sphere insonified by a plane acoustic wave are solved using the new method with curvilinear quadrilateral isoparametric elements. It is found that the numerical results rapidly converge to the corresponding analytical solutions as finer meshes are applied.     

Finding Collineations of Kimura Metrics

Kimura investigated static spherically symmetric metrics and found several to have quadratic first integrals. We use REDUCE and the package Dimsym to seek collineations for these metrics. For one metric we find that three proper projective collineations exist, two of which are associated with the two irreducible quadratic first integrals found by Kimura. The third projective collineation is found to have a reducible quadratic first integral. We also find that this metric admits two conformal motions and that the resulting reducible conformal Killing tensors also lead to Kimura's quadratic integrals. We demonstrate that when a Killing tensor is known for a metric we can seek an associated collineation by solving first order equations that give the Killing tensor in terms of the collineation rather than the second order determining equations for collineations. We report less interesting results for other Kimura metrics.     

二维Helmholtz边界超奇异积分方程解析研究

基于常规边界元法及超奇异边界积分方程复线性耦合的Burton-Miller方法应用于无限域声学问题的最大难点在于处理超奇异积分（二维问题）.目前,此类超奇异积分主要使用各种弱奇异/正则化方法求解,而这些弱奇异/正则化方法具有时间消耗大等弱点.基于围道积分定理,本文给出一种使用常值单元的二维Helmholtz边界超奇异积分的解析表达式.在有限部分积分意义下,所有的奇异和超奇异积分可以解析表达.数值算例表明该解析表达式是有效的.     

HQET quark–gluon vertex at one loop

We calculate the HQET quark–gluon vertex at one loop, for arbitrary external momenta, in an arbitrary covariant gauge and space-time dimension. Relevant results and algorithms for the three-point HQET integrals are presented. We also show how one can obtain the HQET limit directly from QCD results for the quark–gluon vertex. Received: 8 March 2001 / Published online: 18 May 2001     

Analytic two-loop master integrals for tW production at hadron colliders: I

We present the analytic calculation of two-loop master integrals that are relevant for tW production at hadron colliders. We focus on the integral families with only one massive propagator. After selecting a canonical basis, the differential equations for the master integrals can be transformed into the d ln form. The boundaries are determined by simple direct integrations or regularity conditions at kinematic points without physical singularities. The analytical results in this work are expressed in terms of multiple polylogarithms, and have been checked via numerical computations.     

Dimensional regularization of mass and infrared singularities in two-loop on-shell vertex functions

We show how massless two-loop on-shell vertex functions can be calculated in a very elegant way if mass and infrared singularities are regularized by n-dimensional regularization. Using dispersion methods one is able to express the Feynman integrals in a product of gamma functions. As an application of our techniques we have calculated a two-loop on-shell form factor. Its infrared behaviour will be compared with the predictions of some resummation formulae which have been derived in the literature.     

An iterative virtual projection method to improve the reconstruction performance for ill-posed emission tomographic problems

In order to improve the reconstruction performance for ill-posed emission tomographic problems with limited projections, a generalized interpolation method is proposed in this paper, in which the virtual lines of projection are fabricated from, but not linearly dependent on, the measured projections. The method is called the virtual projection(VP) method.Also, an iterative correction method for the integral lengths is proposed to reduce the error brought about by the virtual lines of projection. The combination of the two methods is called the iterative virtual projection(IVP) method. Based on a scheme of equilateral triangle plane meshes and a six asymmetrically arranged detection system, numerical simulations and experimental verification are conducted. Simulation results obtained by using a non-negative linear least squares method,without any other constraints or regularization, demonstrate that the VP method can gradually reduce the reconstruction error and converges to the desired one by fabricating additional effective projections. When the mean square deviation of normal error superimposed on the simulated measured projections is smaller than 0.03, i.e., the signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)for the measured projections is higher than 30.4, the IVP method can further reduce the reconstruction error reached by the VP method apparently. In addition, as the regularization matrix in the Tikhonov regularization method is updated by an iterative correction process similar to the IVP method presented in this paper, or the Tikhonov regularization method is used in the IVP method, good improvement is achieved.