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Exposing the threshold structure of loop integrals

Zeno Capatti*

  • Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland

  • *zeno.ca@gmail.com
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Phys. Rev. D 107, L051902 – Published 24 March, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.L051902

Abstract

The understanding of the physical laws determining the infrared behavior of amplitudes is a longstanding and topical problem. In this paper, we show that energy conservation alone implies strong constraints on the threshold singularity structure of Feynman diagrams. In particular, we show that it implies a representation of loop integrals in terms of Fourier transforms of nonsimplicial convex cones. We then engineer a triangulation that has a direct diagrammatic interpretation in terms of a straightforward edge-contraction operation. We use it to develop an algorithmic procedure that performs the Fourier integrations in closed form, yielding the novel cross-free family three-dimensional representation of loop integrals. Its singularity structure is entirely and elegantly expressed in terms of the graph-theoretic notions of connectedness and crossing. These results can be used to study the Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg cancellation mechanism, numerically evaluate loop integrals and to simplify threshold regularization procedures.

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Phys. Rev. D 107, L051902– Published 24 March, 2023
  • Received 1 December 2022
  • Revised 3 February 2023
  • Accepted 3 March 2023
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