Evaluate Integral for Reduced Green's Function: Semi-Infinite Plates

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Can someone help me evaluate this integral?

[tex] \int\limits_{-\infty}^{\infty} dz' \frac{1}{\sqrt{(x-x')^2 + (y-y')^2 + (z-z')^2}}[/tex]

Mathematica is telling me that this guy diverges. But it CAN'T! This is supposed to give me the reduced Green's function for two semi-infinite plates that meet at a right angle on the z-axis.
 
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For large z' the integrand behaves like 1/|z'|, leading to divergence.
 
It does indeed diverge.

To solve you could use
[tex]z-z'=\sqrt{(x-x')^2+(y-y')^2}\sinh t[/tex]