Journal of High Energy Physics (Apr 2021)

Two-loop leading colour QCD corrections to q q ¯ $$ q\overline{q} $$ → γγg and qg → γγq

  • Bakul Agarwal,
  • Federico Buccioni,
  • Andreas von Manteuffel,
  • Lorenzo Tancredi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2021)201
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2021, no. 4
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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Abstract We present the leading colour and light fermionic planar two-loop corrections for the production of two photons and a jet in the quark-antiquark and quark-gluon channels. In particular, we compute the interference of the two-loop amplitudes with the corresponding tree level ones, summed over colours and polarisations. Our calculation uses the latest advancements in the algorithms for integration-by-parts reduction and multivariate partial fraction decomposition to produce compact and easy-to-use results. We have implemented our results in an efficient C++ numerical code. We also provide their analytic expressions in Mathematica format.

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