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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2020)077
Keywords
Perturbative QCD; Precision QED
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- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [BSCGI0-157722]
- SNSF Ambizione grant [PZ00P2-179877]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [PZ00P2_179877] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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The advent of efficient numerical algorithms for the construction of one-loop amplitudes has played a crucial role in the automation of NLO calculations, and the development of similar algorithms at two loops is a natural strategy for NNLO automation. Within a numerical framework the numerator of loop integrals is usually constructed in four dimensions, and the missing rational terms, which arise from the interplay of the (D - 4)-dimensional parts of the loop numerator with 1/(D - 4) poles in D dimensions, are reconstructed separately. At one loop, such rational terms arise only from UV divergences and can be restored through process-independent local counterterms. In this paper we investigate the behaviour of rational terms of UV origin at two loops. The main result is a general formula that combines the subtraction of UV poles with the reconstruction of the associated rational parts at two loops. This formula has the same structure as the R-operation, and all poles and rational parts are described through a finite set of process-independent local counterterms. We also present a general formula for the calculation of all relevant two-loop rational counterterms in any renormalisable theory based on one-scale tadpole integrals. As a first application, we derive the full set of two-loop rational counterterms for QED in the R-xi -gauge.
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