We complete the construction of canonical differential equations (DEs) for all families of Feynman integrals appearing in the two-loop leading-color QCD amplitude for top-pair production in association with a jet at hadron colliders. This allows us to obtain analytic results for all required Feynman integrals in terms of iterated integrals with closed-form kernels. To achieve this, we study the two-loop five-point integral family for which canonical DEs were previously unavailable due to the appearance of elliptic functions and nested square roots. In addition to marking a significant step toward next-to-next-to-leading-order QCD predictions for a highpriority LHC process, this is the first time that canonical DEs are obtained for Feynman integrals where elliptic functions appear in conjunction with the high algebraic complexity of a process with more than four particles. Our results also reveal a number of new interesting analytic features, such as a "duplet" structure that generalizes the even/odd parity of square roots to nested square roots.
Becchetti, M., Dlapa, C., Zoia, S. (2025). Canonical differential equations for the elliptic two-loop five-point integral family relevant to tt¯+jet production at leading color. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 112(3), 1-10 [10.1103/zt4w-c1jk].
Canonical differential equations for the elliptic two-loop five-point integral family relevant to tt¯+jet production at leading color
Matteo Becchetti;Simone Zoia
2025
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We complete the construction of canonical differential equations (DEs) for all families of Feynman integrals appearing in the two-loop leading-color QCD amplitude for top-pair production in association with a jet at hadron colliders. This allows us to obtain analytic results for all required Feynman integrals in terms of iterated integrals with closed-form kernels. To achieve this, we study the two-loop five-point integral family for which canonical DEs were previously unavailable due to the appearance of elliptic functions and nested square roots. In addition to marking a significant step toward next-to-next-to-leading-order QCD predictions for a highpriority LHC process, this is the first time that canonical DEs are obtained for Feynman integrals where elliptic functions appear in conjunction with the high algebraic complexity of a process with more than four particles. Our results also reveal a number of new interesting analytic features, such as a "duplet" structure that generalizes the even/odd parity of square roots to nested square roots.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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