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High-precision calculation of the 4-loop QED contribution to the slope of the Dirac form factor

Authors :
Laporta, Stefano
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

We have evaluated with 1100 digits of precision the contribution of all the 891 mass-independent four-loop Feynman diagrams contributing to the slope of the Dirac form factor in QED. The total 4-loop contribution is $ m^2 F_1^{(4)'}(0) = 0.886545673946443145836821730610315359390424032660064745... \left(\frac{\alpha}{\pi}\right)^4$. We have fit a semi-analytical expression to the numerical value. The expression contains harmonic polylogarithms of argument $e^{\frac{i\pi}{3}}$, $e^{\frac{2i\pi}{3}}$, $e^{\frac{i\pi}{2}}$, one-dimensional integrals of products of complete elliptic integrals and six finite parts of master integrals, evaluated up to 4800 digits. I show the correction on the shift of the energy levels of the hydrogen atom due to the slope.<br />Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures and 3 tables; v2: a few misprints corrected, version formatted to be published on Physics Letters B

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1910.01248
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135137