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Diphoton Amplitudes in Three-Loop Quantum Chromodynamics
Fabrizio Caola1,2, Andreas von Manteuffel3, Lorenzo Tancredi1
1Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We consider the three-loop scattering amplitudes for the production of a pair of photons in quark-antiquark annihilation in QCD. We use suitably defined projectors to efficiently calculate all helicity amplitudes. We obtain relatively compact analytic results that we write in terms of harmonic polylogarithms or, alternatively, multiple polylogarithms of up to depth three. This is the first calculation of a three-loop four-point scattering amplitude in full QCD.
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