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A simple method for multi-leg loop calculations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

In this paper, I present a technique to simplify the tensorial reduction of one-loop integrals with arbitrary internal masses, but at least two massless external legs. By applying the method to rank l tensor integrals, one ends up with at most rank 1 tensor functions with the initial number of denominators, plus tensor integrals with less denominators and rank < l. To illustrate the algorithm, I explicitly compute diagrams contributing to processes of physical interest and show how the usual numerical instabilities due to the appearance of Gram determinants can be controlled.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9607309,
  title  = {A simple method for multi-leg loop calculations},
  author = {R. Pittau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9607309},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

22 pages, latex file, uses axodraw.sty. The paper has been reorganized and the method extended in n dimensions