Abstract
Modern particle physics is increasingly becoming a precision science that relies on advanced theoretical predictions for the analysis and interpretation of experimental results. The planned physics program at the LHC and future colliders will require three-loop electroweak and mixed electroweak-QCD corrections to single-particle production and decay processes and two-loop electroweak corrections to pair-production processes. This article presents a new seminumerical approach to multiloop multiscale Feynman integrals calculations which will be able to fill the gap between rigid experimental demands and theory. The approach is based on differential equations with boundary terms specified at Euclidean kinematic points. These Euclidean boundary terms can be computed numerically with high accuracy using sector decomposition or other numerical methods. They are then mapped to the physical kinematic configuration by repeatedly solving the differential equation system in terms of series solutions. An automatic and general method is proposed for constructing a basis of master integrals such that the differential equations are finite. The approach also provides a prescription for the analytic continuation across physical thresholds. Our implementation is able to deliver 8 or more digits of precision, and has a built-in mechanism for checking the accuracy of the obtained results. Its efficacy is illustrated with state-of-the-art examples for three-loop self-energy and vertex integrals and two-loop box integrals.
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