Three-loop calculations reveal mixed strong-electroweak corrections to quark form factor, indicating complexities in resulting integrals.
We consider the three-loop mixed strong-electroweak (O(ααₛ²)) corrections to the quark form factor. We compute the master integrals which are appearing in the Feynman diagrams containing a single massive boson in the loop. We use the state-of-the-art method of differential equations to compute all 303 of them, expressing the results in terms of generalized polylogarithms. We encounter multiple square roots that cannot be simultaneously rationalized using a single transformation. Applying concurrent transformations allows us to express the results through generalized polylogarithms with a simple alphabet, but with multiple interdependent arguments.
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