Secondary massive quarks with the Mellin-Barnes expansion

Alejandro Bris (Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain; Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, Madrid, E-28049, Spain) ; Vicent Mateu (Departamento de Física Fundamental e IUFFyM, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, E-37008, Spain)

Processes involving only massless or massive quarks at tree-level get corrections from massive (lighter, heavier, or equal-mass) secondary quarks starting at two-loop order, generated by a virtual gluon splitting into a massive quark anti-quark pair. One convenient approach to compute such two-loop corrections is starting with the one-loop diagram considering the virtual gluon massive. Carrying out a dispersive integral with a suitable kernel over the gluon mass yields the desired two-loop result. On the other hand, the Mellin-Barnes representation can be used to compute the expansion of Feynman integrals in powers of a small parameter. In this article we show how to combine these two ideas to obtain the corresponding expansions for large and small secondary quark masses to arbitrarily high orders in a straightforward manner. Furthermore, the convergence radius of both expansions can be shown to overlap, being each series rapidly convergent. The advantage of our method is that the Mellin representation is obtained directly for the full matrix element from the same one-loop computation one needs in large-β 0 computations, therefore many existing results can be recycled. With minimal modifications, the strategy can be applied to compute the expansion of the one-loop correction coming from a massive gauge boson. We apply this method to a plethora of examples, in particular those relevant for factorized cross sections involving massless and massive jets, recovering known results and obtaining new ones. Another bonus of our approach is that, postponing the Mellin inversion, one can obtain the small- and large-mas expansions for the RG-evolved jet functions. In many cases, the series can be summed up yielding closed expressions.

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Published on:
13 May 2024
Publisher:
Springer
Published in:
Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2024 (2024)
Issue 5
Pages 1-60
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2024)146
arXiv:
2402.09536
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CC-BY-4.0

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