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We investigate the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) corrections to hadronic final states in electron-positron collisions at \( \mathcal{O} \)(\( {\alpha}_s^3 \)) in the strong coupling constant αs. Namely, we analytically compute the total cross section for this process by separately integrating the tree-level five-parton, the one-loop four-parton, the two-loop three-parton, and the three-loop two-parton matrix elements over the respective phase space. All the contributions to the calculation are treated in a common framework whereby phase space integrals are expressed as physical cuts of the four-loop two-point function. We check the cancellation of infrared poles at all colour levels and we reproduce the known result for the R-ratio at order \( {\alpha}_s^3 \).
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Jakubčík, P., Marcoli, M. & Stagnitto, G. The parton-level structure of e+e− to 2 jets at N3LO. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 168 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2023)168
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