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We present a calculation of the helicity amplitudes for the process gg → γγ in three-loop massless QCD. We employ a recently proposed method to calculate scattering amplitudes in the ’t Hooft-Veltman scheme that reduces the amount of spurious non-physical information needed at intermediate stages of the computation. Our analytic results for the three-loop helicity amplitudes are remarkably compact, and can be efficiently evaluated numerically. This calculation provides the last missing building block for the computation of NNLO QCD corrections to diphoton production in gluon fusion.
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Bargieła, P., Caola, F., von Manteuffel, A. et al. Three-loop helicity amplitudes for diphoton production in gluon fusion. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 153 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2022)153
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