Contribution of third generation quarks to two-loop helicity amplitudes for W boson pair production in gluon fusion

Abstract

We compute the contribution of third generation quarks ($t,b$) to the two-loop amplitude for on-shell $W$ boson pair production in gluon fusion $gg\to WW$. We present plots for the amplitude across partonic phase space as well as reference values for two kinematic points. The master integrals are efficiently evaluated by numerically solving a system of ordinary differential equations.