Complete Function Space for Planar Two-Loop Six-Particle Scattering Amplitudes
We derive the full system of canonical differential equations for all planar two-loop massless six-particle master integrals and determine analytically the boundary conditions. This fully specifies the solutions, which may be written as Chen iterated integrals. We argue that this is sufficient information for evaluating any scattering amplitude in four dimensions up to the finite part. We support this claim by reducing, for the most complicated integral topologies, integrals with typical Yang-Mills numerators. We use the analytic solutions to the differential equations, together with dihedral symmetry, to provide the full solution space relevant for two-loop six-particle computations. This includes the relevant function alphabet, as well as the independent set of iterated integrals up to weight four. We also provide the answer for all master integrals in terms of iterated integrals that can be readily evaluated numerically. As a proof of concept, we provide a numerical implementation that evaluates the integrals in part of the Euclidean region and validate this against numerical evaluation of the Feynman integrals. Our result removes the bottleneck of the Feynman integral evaluation, paving the way for future analytic evaluations of six-particle scattering amplitudes.
Authors
- Yang Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9151-8486)
- Julian Miczajka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4872-3374)
- Tiziano Peraro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1534-4378)
- Antonela Matijašić (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6477-6092)
- Johannes M. Henn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1183-4652)
- Yingxuan Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6135-8864)
Institutions
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Peking University (CN)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- Max Planck Institute for Physics (DE)
- Peng Huanwu Center for Fundamental Theory (CN)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/zhzd-tj9p
- Citations
- 6
- Primary Topic
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 11.22
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics
- H2020 European Research Council