Calculation of master integrals in terms of elliptic multiple polylogarithms

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In modern quantum field theory, one of the most important tasks is the calculation of loop integrals. Loop integrals appear when evaluating the Feynman diagrams with one or more loops by integrating over the internal momenta. Even though this problem has already been in place since the mid-twentieth century, we not only do not understand how to calculate all classes of these integrals beyond one loop, we do not even know in what class of functions the answer is expressed. To partially solve this problem, different variations of new functions usually called elliptic multiple polylogarithms have been introduced in the last decade. In this paper, we explore the possibilities and limitations of this class of functions. As a practical example, we chose the processes associated with the physics of heavy quarkonium at the two-loop level.