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Quark and gluon form factors to four-loop order in QCD: TheNf3contributions

Robert M. SchabingerAndreas Von ManteuffelAndreas Von Manteuffel

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QuarkPhysicsQuantum chromodynamicsParticle physics010308 nuclear & particles physicsHigh Energy Physics::LatticeNuclear TheoryHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyQCD vacuumForm factor (quantum field theory)Jet (particle physics)01 natural sciencesBottom quarkGluonMassless particle0103 physical sciencesHigh Energy Physics::Experiment010306 general physics

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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.

https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.034030