The analytic value of a 3-loop sunrise graph in a particular kinematical configuration Original Research Article

We consider the scalar integral associated to the 3-loop sunrise graph with a massless line, two massive lines of equal mass M, a fourth line of mass equal to Mx, and the external invariant timelike and equal to the square of the fourth mass. We write the differential equation in x satisfied by the integral, expand it in the continuous dimension d around d=4 and solve the system of the resulting chained differential equations in closed analytic form, expressing the solutions in terms of harmonic polylogarithms. As a byproduct, we give the limiting values of the coefficients of the (d−4) expansion at x=1 and x=0.