Quark and gluon form factors to four-loop order in QCD: the Nf3N_f^3 contributions

Nov 2, 2016
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 95 (2017) 3, 034030
  • Published: Feb 22, 2017
e-Print:
Report number:
  • MITP-16-097,
  • TCDMATH-16-15

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We calculate the four-loop massless QCD corrections with three closed quark lines to quark and gluon form factors. We apply a novel integration by parts algorithm based on modular arithmetic and compute all relevant master integrals for arbitrary values of the space-time dimension. This is the first calculation of a gluon form factor at this perturbative order in QCD.
Note:
  • 4 pages
  • quark: form factor
  • gluon: form factor
  • quantum chromodynamics: massless
  • quantum chromodynamics: correction
  • correction: higher-order
  • higher-order: 4
  • master integral
  • mathematical methods