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Generating QCD amplitudes in the color-flow basis with MadGraph

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-06-08 v3

Abstract

We propose to make use of the off-shell recursive relations with the color-flow decomposition in the calculation of QCD amplitudes on MadGraph. We introduce colored quarks and their interactions with nine gluons in the color-flow basis plus an Abelian gluon on MadGraph, such that it generates helicity amplitudes in the color-flow basis with off-shell recursive formulae for multi-gluon sub-amplitudes. We demonstrate calculations of up to 5-jet processes such as gg5ggg\rightarrow 5g, uuˉ5gu\bar{u}\rightarrow 5g and uuuuggguu\rightarrow uuggg. Although our demonstration is limited, it paves the way to evaluate amplitudes with more quark lines and gluons with Madgraph.

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@article{arxiv.1010.0748,
  title  = {Generating QCD amplitudes in the color-flow basis with MadGraph},
  author = {Kaoru Hagiwara and Yoshitaro Takaesu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.0748},
  year   = {2011}
}

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29 pages, 13 figures

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