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Elliptic Double-Box Integrals: Massless Scattering Amplitudes beyond Polylogarithms

Jacob L. Bourjaily, Andrew J. McLeod, Marcus Spradlin, Matt von Hippel, and Matthias Wilhelm
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 121603 – Published 23 March 2018
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Abstract

We derive an analytic representation of the ten-particle, two-loop double-box integral as an elliptic integral over weight-three polylogarithms. To obtain this form, we first derive a fourfold, rational (Feynman-)parametric representation for the integral, expressed directly in terms of dual-conformally invariant cross ratios; from this, the desired form is easily obtained. The essential features of this integral are illustrated by means of a simplified toy model, and we attach the relevant expressions for both integrals in ancillary files. We propose a normalization for such integrals that renders all of their polylogarithmic degenerations pure, and we discuss the need for a new “symbology” of mixed iterated elliptic and polylogarithmic integrals in order to bring them to a more canonical form.

  • Received 22 December 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.121603

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Jacob L. Bourjaily1, Andrew J. McLeod1, Marcus Spradlin2,3, Matt von Hippel1, and Matthias Wilhelm1

  • 1Niels Bohr International Academy and Discovery Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
  • 2Department of Physics, Brown University, 182 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
  • 3School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA

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Vol. 120, Iss. 12 — 23 March 2018

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