PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 432 - 16th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections: Applications of Quantum Field Theory to Phenomenology (RADCOR2023) - Main session
N$^3$LO Antenna Functions for Final-State Radiation
M. Marcoli
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Pre-published on: October 23, 2023
Published on: January 22, 2024
Abstract
We discuss recent progress in the calculation of integrated antenna functions for final-state radiation at N$^3$LO in QCD. Antenna functions are directly extracted from physical matrix elements for the decay of a colour-singlet state into partons. In order to compute their integrated counterparts, which are necessary ingredients for fixed-order calculations in QCD, each allowed final state has to be individually integrated over the inclusive phase space of the unresolved radiation. We analytically integrated two-, three-, four- and five-particle final-state matrix elements for the decay of a virtual photon and a Higgs boson into partons, considering up to third-order corrections in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$. The integration over the inclusive phase space is performed relying on well-established reverse unitarity and IBP reduction techniques. We conclude with preliminary comments about the structure of N$^3$LO subtraction terms in the context of the antenna subtraction method.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.432.0074
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