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For loop integrals, the standard method is reduction. A well-known reduction method for one-loop integrals is the Passarino-Veltman reduction. Inspired by the recent paper [1] where the tadpole reduction coefficients have been solved, in this paper we show the same technique can be used to give a complete integral reduction for any one-loop integrals. The differential operator method is an improved version of the PV-reduction method. Using this method, analytic expressions of all reduction coefficients of the master integrals can be given by algebraic recurrence relation easily. We demonstrate our method explicitly with several examples.
The recently developed algorithm FIRE performs the reduction of Feynman integrals to master integrals. It is based on a number of strategies, such as applying the Laporta algorithm, the s-bases algorithm, region-bases and integrating explicitly over loop momenta when possible. Currently it is being used in complicated three-loop calculations.
We present a new algorithm for the reduction of one-loop emph{tensor} Feynman integrals with $nleq 4$ external legs to emph{scalar} Feynman integrals $I_n^D$ with $n=3,4$ legs in $D$ dimensions, where $D=d+2l$ with integer $l geq 0$ and generic dimension $d=4-2epsilon$, thus avoiding the appearance of inverse Gram determinants $()_4$. As long as $()_4 eq 0$, the integrals $I_{3,4}^D$ with $D>d$ may be further expressed by the usual dimensionally regularized scalar functions $I_{2,3,4}^d$. The integrals $I_{4}^D$ are known at $()_4 equiv 0$, so that we may extend the numerics to small, non-vanishing $()_4$ by applying a dimensional recurrence relation. A numerical example is worked out. Together with a recursive reduction of 6- and 5-point functions, derived earlier, the calculational scheme allows a stabilized reduction of $n$-point functions with $nleq 6$ at arbitrary phase space points. The algorithm is worked out explicitely for tensors of rank $Rleq n$.
We will present some (formal) arguments that any Feynman diagram can be understood as a particular case of a Horn-type multivariable hypergeometric function. The advantages and disadvantages of this type of approach to the evaluation of Feynman diagrams is discussed.
FIRE is a program performing reduction of Feynman integrals to master integrals. The C++ version of FIRE was presented in 2014. There have been multiple changes and upgrades since then including the possibility to use multiple computers for one reduction task and to perform reduction with modular arithmetic. The goal of this paper is to present the current version of FIRE.
A new approach to compute Feynman Integrals is presented. It relies on an integral representation of a given Feynman Integral in terms of simpler ones. Using this approach, we present, for the first time, results for a certain family of non-planar five-point two-loop Master Integrals with one external off-shell particle, relevant for instance for $H+2$ jets production at the LHC, in both Euclidean and physical kinematical regions.