Physics Letters B (Jan 2024)

Full top-quark mass dependence in diphoton production at NNLO in QCD

  • Matteo Becchetti,
  • Roberto Bonciani,
  • Leandro Cieri,
  • Federico Coro,
  • Federico Ripani

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 848
p. 138362

Abstract

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In this paper we consider the diphoton production in hadronic collisions at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD, taking into account for the first time the full top quark mass dependence up to two loops (full NNLO). We show selected numerical distributions, highlighting the kinematic regions where the massive corrections are more significant. We make use of the recently computed two-loop massive amplitudes for diphoton production in the quark annihilation channel. The remaining massive contributions at NNLO are also considered, and we comment on the weight of the different types of contributions to the full and complete result.

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