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CutTools: a program implementing the OPP reduction method to compute one-loop amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-05-05 v2

Abstract

We present a program that implements the OPP reduction method to extract the coefficients of the one-loop scalar integrals from a user defined (sub)-amplitude or Feynman Diagram, as well as the rational terms coming from the 4-dimensional part of the numerator. The rational pieces coming from the epsilon-dimensional part of the numerator are treated as an external input, and can be computed with the help of dedicated tree-level like Feynman rules. Possible numerical instabilities are dealt with the help of arbitrary precision routines, that activate only when needed.

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@article{arxiv.0711.3596,
  title  = {CutTools: a program implementing the OPP reduction method to compute one-loop amplitudes},
  author = {Giovanni Ossola and Costas G. Papadopoulos and Roberto Pittau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.3596},
  year   = {2011}
}

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Version published in JHEP

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