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We present an analytic three-loop result for the leading color contribution to the Higgs-gluon form factor in QCD. The leading color contribution is given at next-to-next-to-leading order by the \( {N}_c^2 \)-term in QCD with Nc colors. The main focus of this article lies on the evaluation of the relevant Feynman integrals with a special emphasis on the elliptic sector.
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Prausa, M., Usovitsch, J. The analytic leading color contribution to the Higgs-gluon form factor in QCD at NNLO. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 127 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2021)127
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