One-Loop Calculations with BlackHat
Abstract
We describe BlackHat, an automated C++ program for calculating one-loop amplitudes, and the techniques used in its construction. These include the unitarity method and on-shell recursion. The other ingredients are compact analytic formulae for tree amplitudes for four-dimensional helicity states. The program computes amplitudes numerically, using analytic formulae only for the tree amplitudes, the starting point for the recursion, and the loop integrals. We make use of recently developed on-shell methods for evaluating coefficients of loop integrals, in particular a discrete Fourier projection as a means of improving numerical stability. We illustrate the good numerical stability of this approach by computing six-, seven- and eight-gluon amplitudes in QCD and comparing against known analytic results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.3705,
title = {One-Loop Calculations with BlackHat},
author = {C. F. Berger and Z. Bern and L. J. Dixon and F. Febres Cordero and D. Forde and H. Ita and D. A. Kosower and D. Maitre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3705},
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