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Hepta-Cuts of Two-Loop Scattering Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-04-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present a method for the computation of hepta-cuts of two loop scattering amplitudes. Four dimensional unitarity cuts are used to factorise the integrand onto the product of six tree-level amplitudes evaluated at complex momentum values. Using Gram matrix constraints we derive a general parameterisation of the integrand which can be computed using polynomial fitting techniques. The resulting expression is further reduced to master integrals using conventional integration by parts methods. We consider both planar and non-planar topologies for 2 to 2 scattering processes and apply the method to compute hepta-cut contributions to gluon-gluon scattering in Yang-Mills theory with adjoint fermions and scalars.

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@article{arxiv.1202.2019,
  title  = {Hepta-Cuts of Two-Loop Scattering Amplitudes},
  author = {Simon Badger and Hjalte Frellesvig and Yang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.2019},
  year   = {2012}
}

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37 pages, 6 figures. version 2 : minor updates, published version

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