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On the factorization of overlapping singularities at NNLO. (English) Zbl 1301.81284
Summary: Real and virtual corrections in NNLO QCD require multi-dimensional integrals with overlapping singularities. We first review ideas and methods which have been proposed for performing such computations. We then present a new method for the factorization of overlapping singularities based on non-linear integral transformations. We apply this method for the evaluation of all integral topologies which appear in double real radiation corrections in cross-section calculations for the production of a heavy system at hadron colliders. Finally, we demonstrate with typical examples that two-loop virtual corrections are amenable to the same method.

##### MSC:
 81V05 Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics 81T15 Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory 47A68 Factorization theory (including Wiener-Hopf and spectral factorizations) of linear operators
##### Keywords:
NLO computations; QCD
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