Two-loop corrections to Lamb shift and hyperfine splitting in hydrogen via multi-loop methods

Abstract

We revisit the contributions of order ${\alpha }^2(Z\alpha {)}^{5}m$ and ${\alpha }^2(Z\alpha )E_F$, respectively, to the Lamb shift and to the hyperfine splitting from mixed self-energy-vacuum-polarization diagrams, involving fermionic loop. We use modern multi-loop calculation techniques based on IBP reduction and differential equations. We construct the $ϵ$-regular basis [LeeOnishchenko2019] and explicitly demonstrate that it is compatible with the renormalization. We obtain analytic results in terms of one-fold integral involving elliptic function and dilogarithm. As a by-product, we obtain the analogous contribution for the limiting cases of heavy and light fermionic loop.

Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures