Three-loop massive form factors: complete light-fermion and large-$N_c$ corrections for vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudo-scalar currents

Abstract

We compute the three-loop QCD corrections to the massive quark form factors with external vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudo-scalar currents. All corrections with closed loops of massless fermions are included. The non-fermionic part is computed in the large-$N_c$ limit, where only planar Feynman diagrams contribute.

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