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Bootstrapping One-Loop QCD Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We review the recently developed bootstrap method for the computation of high-multiplicity QCD amplitudes at one loop. We illustrate the general algorithm step by step with a six-point example. The method combines (generalized) unitarity with on-shell recursion relations to determine the not cut-constructible, rational terms of these amplitudes. Our bootstrap approach works for arbitrary configurations of gluon helicities and arbitrary numbers of external legs.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0608027,
  title  = {Bootstrapping One-Loop QCD Amplitudes},
  author = {Carola F. Berger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0608027},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

18 pages, 9 figures; extended version of talks given at the 7th Workshop On Continuous Advances In QCD, 11-14 May 2006, Minneapolis, Minnesota; at SUSY06: 14th International Conference On Supersymmetry And The Unification Of Fundamental Interactions, 12-17 Jun 2006, Irvine, California; at the LoopFest V: Radiative Corrections For The International Linear Collider: Multi-Loops And Multi-Legs, 19-21 Jun 2006, SLAC, Menlo Park, California; and at the Vancouver Linear Colliders Workshop (ALCPG 2006), 19-22 Jul 2006, Vancouver, British Columbia