Abstract
We present the electroweak corrections for the production of a photon pair through gluon fusion, focusing on the contribution from the first two generations of quarks. The two-loop amplitude is calculated using a series of projection operators which define scalar form factors. In order to evaluate the Master Integrals which appear in this process we employ both generalized polylogarithms and Chen-iterated integrals. In order to perform a phenomenological study we develop a semi-numerical evaluation of the Master Integrals employing a fitting procedure to speed up the evaluation of burdensome higher weight contributions. We present results for the LHC, finding corrections of around a couple of percent to the leading order gg → γγ process. Our results are implemented into the parton-level Monte Carlo code MCFM.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 23 |
| Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Volume | 2026 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2026 |
Keywords
- Electroweak Precision Physics
- Higher Order Electroweak Calculations
- Higher-Order Perturbative Calculations
- Specific QCD Phenomenology
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