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Federico Ripani

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Two-loop integrals for $t\bar{t}γ$ production at hadron colliders in the leading-colour approximation

We complete the calculation of the two-loop Feynman integrals required for the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to on-shell top--antitop production in association with a photon at hadron colliders, in the leading-colour approximation. The same integrals also enter the subleading-colour corrections to top--antitop production in association with a jet. We construct integral bases that satisfy algebraic differential equations. These are largely in canonical form; the exceptions are a few entries, associated with elliptic curves or nested square roots, that depend at most quadratically on the dimensional regulator $ε$. We solve the differential equations in terms of a tailored set of special functions, which will enable the analytic extraction of the two-loop finite remainder. We evaluate these functions by numerically solving the differential equations they satisfy, and show that the resulting routine is fast and stable enough in the physical region for phenomenological applications.

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Two-loop all-plus helicity amplitudes for self-dual Higgs boson with gluons via unitarity cut constraints

We present the two-loop amplitudes for a self-dual Higgs boson with up to four positive helicity gluons in the heavy top-quark limit. Because the tree amplitudes in the all-plus sector vanish, we can construct simple representations of the polylogarithmic parts of the two-loop amplitudes using four-dimensional unitarity cuts into rational one-loop and tree amplitudes. The remaining rational function ambiguity is extracted from a tensor integral reduction over finite fields. The final expressions are presented using polylogarithms up to weight two and compact rational functions of spinor-helicity products.

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Full top-quark mass dependence in diphoton production at NNLO in QCD

In this paper we consider the diphoton production in hadronic collisions at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD, taking into account for the first time the full top quark mass dependence up to two loops (full NNLO). We show selected numerical distributions, highlighting the kinematic regions where the massive corrections are more significant. We make use of the recently computed two-loop massive amplitudes for diphoton production in the quark annihilation channel. The remaining massive contributions at NNLO are also considered, and we comment on the weight of the different types of contributions to the full and complete result.

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Two-loop form factors for diphoton production in quark annihilation channel with heavy quark mass dependence

We present the computation of the two-loop form factors for diphoton production in the quark annihilation channel. These quantities are relevant for the NNLO QCD corrections to diphoton production at LHC recently presented in arXiv:2308.10885. The computation is performed retaining full dependence on the mass of the heavy quark in the loops. The master integrals are evaluated by means of differential equations which are solved exploiting the generalised power series technique.

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