https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-03834-4
Regular Article
Lepton anomaly from QED diagrams with vacuum polarization insertions within the Mellin–Barnes representation
1
Bogoliubov Lab. Theor. Phys., JINR, 141980, Dubna, Russia
2
Gomel State Technical University, 246746, Gomel, Belarus
Received:
20
October
2022
Accepted:
23
February
2023
Published online:
6
March
2023
The contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the lepton L (
or 
) generated by a specific class of QED diagrams are evaluated analytically up to the eighth order of the electromagnetic coupling constant. The considered class of the Feynman diagrams involves the vacuum polarization insertions into the electromagnetic vertex of the lepton L up to three closed lepton loops. The corresponding analytical expressions are obtained as functions of the mass ratios 
in the whole region 
. Our consideration is based on a combined use of the dispersion relations for the polarization operators and the Mellin–Barnes integral transform for the Feynman parametric integrals. This method is widely used in the literature in multi-loop calculations in relativistic quantum field theories. For each order of the radiative correction, we derive analytical expressions as functions of r, separately at 
and 
. We argue that in spite of the obtained explicit expressions in these intervals which are quite different, at first glance, they represent two branches of the same analytical function. Consequently, for each order of corrections there is a unique analytical function defined in the whole range of 
. The results of numerical calculations of the fourth-, sixth- and eighth-order corrections to the anomalous magnetic moments of leptons (
) with all possible vacuum polarization insertions are represented as functions of the ratio . Whenever pertinent, we compare our analytical expressions and the corresponding asymptotical expansions with the known results available in the literature.
Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-03834-4.
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