Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-09-22
Phys.Rev.D83:073004,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
57 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; extended version; typo in equation (4.67) corrected, reference [20] added; reorganisation of te
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.83.073004
We set up a new, flexible approach for the tensor reduction of one-loop Feynman integrals. The 5-point tensor integrals up to rank R=5 are expressed by 4-point tensor integrals of rank R-1, such that the appearance of the inverse 5-point Gram determinant is avoided. The 4-point tensor coefficients are represented in terms of 4-point integrals, defined in $d$ dimensions, $4-2\epsilon \le d \le 4-2\epsilon+2(R-1)$, with higher powers of the propagators. They can be further reduced to expressions which stay free of the inverse 4-point Gram determinants but contain higher-dimensional 4-point integrals with only the first power of scalar propagators, plus 3-point tensor coefficients. A direct evaluation of the higher dimensional 4-point functions would avoid the appearance of inverse powers of the Gram determinants completely. The simplest approach, however, is to apply here dimensional recurrence relations in order to reduce them to the familiar 2- to 4-point functions in generic dimension $d = 4-2\eps$, introducing thereby coefficients with inverse 4-point Gram determinants up to power $R$ for tensors of rank $R$. For small or vanishing Gram determinants - where this reduction is not applicable - we use analytic expansions in positive powers of the Gram determinants. Improving the convergence of the expansions substantially with Pad\'e approximants we close up to the evaluation of the 4-point tensor coefficients for larger Gram determinants. Finally, some relations are discussed which may be useful for analytic simplifications of Feynman diagrams.
Fleischer Jochem
Riemann Tord
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