====== TTP08-23 Evaluating the three-loop static quark potential ====== This is a status report of the evaluation of the three-loop corrections to the static QCD potential of a heavy quark and an antiquark. The families of Feynman integrals that appear in the evaluation are described. To reduce any integral of the families to master integrals we solve integration-by-parts relations by the algorithm called FIRE. To evaluate the corresponding master integrals we apply the Mellin-Barnes technique. First results are presented: the coefficients of n_l^3 and n_l^2, where n_l is the number of light quarks. |**Alexander V. Smirnov, Vladimir A. Smirnov, Matthias Steinhauser** | |** Nucl.Phys Proc.Suppl.183 308-312 2008 ** | | {{preprints:2008:ttp08-23.pdf|PDF}} {{preprints:2008:ttp08-23.ps|PostScript}} [[http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0365|arXiv]] | | |