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Relations of loop partial amplitudes in gauge theory by Unitarity cut method

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-28 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It is well known that under the color-decomposition, one-loop amplitude of gluons contains partial amplitudes of single and double trace structures, and particularly all partial amplitudes of double trace structure can be expressed as a linear combination of partial amplitudes of single trace structure. Using unitarity cut method, we prove that this result is the natural consequence of tree-level Kleiss-Kuijf relation. Generalizing the unitarity cut method to two-loop (triple cut in this case), we show that, unlike the one-loop case, partial amplitudes of double and triple trace structures can not be expressed as a linear combination of partial amplitudes of leading-color single trace structure. For partial amplitudes of subleading-color single trace structure, we have shown a very nontrivial Kleiss-Kuijf relation for six and seven-point amplitudes, which is one new result of our paper and can not be obtained by U(1)-decoupling method. Mysteriously, when we consider the case of eight points, Kleiss-Kuijf relation must be modified for subleading-color single trace partial amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.1105.0334,
  title  = {Relations of loop partial amplitudes in gauge theory by Unitarity cut method},
  author = {Bo Feng and Yin Jia and Rijun Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.0334},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

35pages; v2:reference added and minor correction; v3; v4: to appear in NPB