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Loop Tree Duality for multi-loop numerical integration

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-10-16 v1

Abstract

Loop Tree Duality (LTD) offers a promising avenue to numerically integrate multi-loop integrals directly in momentum space. It is well-established at one loop, but there have been only sparse numerical results at two loops. We provide a formal derivation for a novel multi-loop LTD expression and study its threshold singularity structure. We apply our findings numerically to a diverse set of up to four-loop finite topologies with kinematics for which no contour deformation is needed. We also lay down the ground work for constructing such a deformation. Our results serve as an important stepping stone towards a generalised and efficient numerical implementation of LTD, applicable to the computation of virtual corrections.

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@article{arxiv.1906.06138,
  title  = {Loop Tree Duality for multi-loop numerical integration},
  author = {Zeno Capatti and Valentin Hirschi and Dario Kermanschah and Ben Ruijl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.06138},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages