Two-loop helicity amplitudes for diphoton plus jet production in full color

Abstract

We present the complete two-loop corrections in massless QCD for the production of two photons and a jet, taking into account all color structures. In particular, we analytically compute all two-loop helicity amplitudes for the quark-antiquark, quark-gluon, and antiquark-gluon channel, and check them with an independent calculation of the polarization-summed interference with the tree amplitude. This is the first time that two-loop QCD corrections to a five-point scattering process have been computed beyond the leading-color approximation for all helicity configurations.

Comments: 10 pages, 1 table, analytic results at https://gitlab.msu.edu/vmante/aajamp-symb