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On the Cuts of Scattering Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

The use of complex analysis for computing one-loop scattering amplitudes is naturally induced by generalised unitarity-cut conditions, fulfilled by complex values of the loop variable. We report on two techniques: the cut-integration with spinor-variables as contour integrals of rational functions; and the use of the Discrete Fourier Transform to optimize the reduction of tensor-integrals to master scalar integrals.

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@article{arxiv.0807.3493,
  title  = {On the Cuts of Scattering Amplitudes},
  author = {Pierpaolo Mastrolia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3493},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

To appear in the proceedings of 9th Workshop on Elementary Particle Theory: Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory, Sondershausen, Germany, 20-25 Apr 2008