Rational Terms of UV Origin at Two Loops

Abstract

The advent of efficient numerical algorithms for the construction of one-loop amplitudes has played a crucial role in the automation of NLO calculations, and the development of similar algorithms at two loops is a natural strategy for NNLO automation. Within a numerical framework the numerator of loop integrals is usually constructed in four dimensions, and the missing rational terms, which arise from the interplay of the $(D-4)$-dimensional parts of the loop numerator with $1/(D-4)$ poles in $D$ dimensions, are reconstructed separately. At one loop, such rational terms arise only from UV divergences and can be restored through process-independent local counterterms. In this paper we investigate the behaviour of rational terms of UV origin at two loops. The main result is a general formula that combines the subtraction of UV poles with the reconstruction of the associated rational parts at two loops. This formula has the same structure as the R-operation, and all poles and rational parts are described through a finite set of process-independent local counterterms. We also present a general formula for the calculation of all relevant two-loop rational counterterms in any renormalisable theory based on one-scale tadpole integrals. As a first application, we derive the full set of two-loop rational counterterms for QED in the $R_{\xi }$-gauge.

arXiv commentv2: Normalisation of MSbar poles clarified; v3: Version published on JHEP; References added; Further comments on use of master formula (5.61) in Sect. 6; New footnote on scale dependence in Sect. 5; Typos fixed and/or presentation improved in eqs. (4.8), (4.20), (5.2), (6.5), (6.7), (6.8), (A.2), (A.4); Results unchanged

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