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D-dimensional unitarity cut method

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We develop a unitarity method to compute one-loop amplitudes with massless propagators in d=4-2*epsilon dimensions. We compute double cuts of the loop amplitudes via a decomposition into a four-dimensional and a -2*epsilon-dimensional integration. The four-dimensional integration is performed using spinor integration or other efficient techniques. The remaining integral in -2*epsilon dimensions is cast in terms of bubble, triangle, box, and pentagon master integrals using dimensional shift identities. The method yields results valid for arbitrary values of epsilon.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0609191,
  title  = {D-dimensional unitarity cut method},
  author = {Charalampos Anastasiou and Ruth Britto and Bo Feng and Zoltan Kunszt and Pierpaolo Mastrolia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0609191},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages. v2: references changed