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JHEP03(2018)136
Published for SISSA by Springer
Received: January 28, 2018
Accepted: March 19, 2018
Published: March 22, 2018
Three-loop massive form factors: complete
light-fermion corrections for the vector current
Roman N. Lee,
a
Alexander V. Smirnov,
b
Vladimir A. Smirnov
c,d
and Matthias Steinhauser
d
a
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics,
630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
b
Research Computing Center, Moscow State University,
119991 Moscow, Russia
c
Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University,
119991 Moscow, Russia
d
Institut f¨ur Theoretische Teilchenphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),
Wolfgang-Gaed e Straße 1 , D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
E-mail:
roman.n.lee@gmail.com, asmirnov80@gmail.com,
smirnov@theory.sinp.msu.ru, matthias.steinhauser@kit.edu
Abstract: We compute the three-loop QCD corrections to the m assi ve quark-anti-quark-
photon form factors F
1
and F
2
involving a closed loop of massless fermions. This subset
is gauge invariant and contains both planar and non-planar contributions. We perform
the reduction using FIRE and compute the master integrals with the help of differential
equations. Our analytic results can be expressed in te rm s of Goncharov polylogarithms.
We provide analytic results for all master integrals which are not present in the l ar ge- N
c
calculation considered in refs. [
1, 2].
Keywords: NLO Computations, QCD Phenomenology
ArXiv ePrint: 1801.08151
Open Access,
c
The Authors.
Article funded by SCOAP
3
.
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2018)136
JHEP03(2018)136
Contents
1 Introduction
1
2 Notation, renormalization and infrared structure 2
3 One- and two-loop form factors 3
4 Three-loop form factor 5
5 Analytical and numerical results 8
5.1 Form factor s in the static limit 8
5.2 Form factor s at high energies 10
5.3 Form factor s and threshold cross section 13
5.4 Numerical results 15
6 Conclusions and outlook 17
1 Introduction
In the absence of striking experimental signals which hint to phy s i cs beyond the Standard
Model it is of utmost importance to increase the precision of the theoretical predictions.
A subsequent detailed comparison to pr e c i se measurements will help to uncover deviations
and will provide hints for the construction of beyond-the-Standard-Model theories.
Quark and gluon form factors play a special role in the context of precision calculations.
On the one hand t he y are sufficiently simple which allows to comput e them to high or de r
in perturbation theory. On the other hand they enter as building bl ocks into a variety of
physical cros s secti ons and decay rates, most prominently into Higgs boson production and
decay, the Drell Yan production of leptons and the production of massive quark s . Form
factors also c onst i tu te an ideal playground to study the infrared p r operties of a quantum
field theory, in particular of QCD. As far as massle ss form factors are concerned the state-
of-the-art is four loops where different groups have contributed to partial resu l ts [
3–8].
Massive quark form factors are known to two loops [
9] including O(ǫ) [2, 10] and O(ǫ
2
)
terms [
11, 12]. Three-loop corr ec t i ons in the l arge -N
c
limit for the vector current form
factor have been computed in ref. [
2]. In this paper we extend these considerations and
compute the complete contributions (i.e. all colour factors) from the diagrams involving
a closed massless quark loop. This well-defined and gauge invariant subset contains for
the first time non-planar contributions which we study in detail. Furthermore, new planar
master integrals have to be evaluated which are not present in the large-N
c
result. As a
by-product of our calculation we obtain the two-loop form factor including order ǫ
2
terms.
We do not consider singlet diagrams where the external photon couples to a clos ed massless
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quark loop which is connected via gluons to the final-state massive quarks. Such diagrams
form agai n a separate gauge i nvariant subset which requires the computation of different
integral families. Let us mention that all-order corrections to the massive form factor in
the large-β
0
limit have been considered in ref. [
13].
The remainde r of the paper is structured as follows: in the next section we introduce
the notation and discuss the ultraviolet and infrared divergences. One- and two-loop
results are presented in section
3. The three-loop calculation is descri bed in section 4,
in particular the calculation of the master integrals. Section
5 contains a discussion of
the three -l oop form factor. We provide both numerical results and analytic expressions
in various kinematic al limits. In section
6 we sum mar i ze our resul t s and comment on the
perspective for the full result.
2 Notation, renormalization and infrared structure
Let us define the form factors we are going to c onsi d er . Starting point is the photon-quark-
anti-quark vertex which we introduce as
V
µ,ij
(q
1
, q
2
) = δ
ij
¯u(q
1
)Γ
µ
(q
1
, q
2
)v(q
2
) , (2.1)
where i and j are (fundamental) colour indices and ¯u(q
1
) and v(q
2
) are the spinors of the
quark and anti-quark, respecti vely, with incoming momentum q
1
and out goi ng momentum
q
2
. The external quarks are on-shell, i.e., we have q
2
1
= q
2
2
= m
2
. The form factors are
defined as prefactors of the Lorentz decomposition of the vertex function Γ
µ
(q
1
, q
2
) which
is introduced as
Γ
µ
(q
1
, q
2
) = Q
q
F
1
(q
2
)γ
µ
−
i
2m
F
2
(q
2
)σ
µν
q
ν
, (2.2)
with q = q
1
− q
2
being the outgoing momentum of the photon and σ
µν
= i[γ
µ
, γ
ν
]/2.
Q
q
is the charge of the c onsi de r e d quark. For on-sh el l renormalized form factors we have
F
1
(0) = 1 and F
2
(0) = (g − 2)/2 where g is the gyromagnetic ratio of the quark (or lepton
in the case of QED). For later convenience we define the perturbative expan si on of F
1
and
F
2
as
F
i
=
X
n≥0
F
(n)
i
α
s
(µ)
4π
n
, (2.3)
with F
(0)
1
= 1 and F
(0)
2
= 0.
To obtain the ren orm al i ze d form factors we use the
MS scheme for the strong coupling
constant and the on-shel l scheme for the heavy quark mass and wave function of the
external quarks. In all cases the counterterm contributions are simply obtained by re-
scaling the bare parameters with the corresponding renormalization constants, Z
α
s
, Z
OS
m
and Z
OS
2
. The latter is needed to three loops whereas two-loop corrections for Z
α
s
and Z
OS
m
are sufficient to obtain re nor mal i z e d three-loop r es ul t s for F
1
and F
2
. Note that higher
order ǫ coefficients are needed for the on-shell r e nor mal i z ati on constants since the one- and
two-loop form factors develop 1/ǫ and 1/ǫ
2
poles, respect i vely.
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After renormaliz ati on of the ultr aviolet divergences the for m factors still contain in-
frared poles which are connec te d to the cusp anomalous dimens i on, Γ
cusp
[
14–16]. We
adapt the notation from ref. [
2] and write
F = ZF
f
, (2.4)
where the factor Z, which is defined in the
MS scheme and thus onl y contains poles in ǫ,
absorbs the infrared divergences and F
f
is finite. The coefficients of the poles of Z are
determined by the QCD beta function and Γ
cusp
. In fact, the 1/ǫ
1
pole of the α
n
s
term of
Z is proportional to the n- l oop correction to Γ
cusp
(see, e.g., re f. [
2].
1
)
A dedicated calculation of Γ
cusp
to three loops has been performed in refs. [
14, 16–18].
An independent cross check of the large-N
c
result has been provided in ref. [
2]. In this
work we reproduce all n
l
terms at th re e -l oop order by extracting Γ
cusp
from the pole part
of the form factors.
For the practical computation of the master integrals, for the di sc uss i on of the various
kinematic limits and also for the numerical evaluation it is convenient to introduce the
dimensionless variable
q
2
m
2
= −
(1 − x)
2
x
, (2.5)
which maps the complex q
2
/m
2
plane into the unit circle. The low-energy (q
2
→ 0), h i gh-
energy (q
2
→ ∞) and threshold (q
2
→ 4m
2
) limits correspond to x → 1, x → 0 and
x → −1, respectively. Furthermore, as can be se en i n figu re
1, the interval q
2
< 0 is
mapped to x ∈ (0, 1) and q
2
∈ [0, 4m
2
] t o the upper se mi - ci r c l e . For these values of x the
form factors have to be re al -valued since the corresponding Feynman diagrams do not have
cuts. Thi s is different for the region q
2
> 4m
2
, which corresponds to x ∈ (−1, 0), where
the form factors are complex-valued.
For the threshold limit it is also convenient to introduce the velocity of the produce d
quarks
β =
r
1 −
4m
2
s
, (2.6)
which is related to x via
x =
2β
1 + β
− 1 . (2.7)
3 One- and two-loop form factors
Let us in the following briefly outline the main steps of the two-loop calculation. Sample
Feynman diagrams contributing to F
1
and F
2
can be found in figure
2. After generating
the amplitudes we find it convenient to define one integral family at one and four integral
1
Note that t h ere is a typo in the second equation of eq. (12) in ref. [
2]: a factor “2” is miss in g in front
of Γ
(1)
cusp
inside the round brackets. The corrected equation reads z
2,2
= Γ
(1)
cusp
(β
0
+ 2Γ
(1)
cusp
)/16.
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