Subleading Poles in the Numerical Unitarity Method at Two Loops
Abstract
We describe the unitarity approach for the numerical computation of two-loop integral coefficients of scattering amplitudes. It is well known that the leading propagator singularities of an amplitude's integrand are related to products of tree amplitudes. At two loops, Feynman diagrams with doubled propagators appear naturally, which lead to subleading pole contributions. In general, it is not known how these contributions can be directly expressed in terms of a product of on-shell tree amplitudes. We present a universal algorithm to extract these subleading pole terms by releasing some of the on-shell conditions. We demonstrate the new approach by numerically computing two-loop four-gluon integral coefficients.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1703.05255,
title = {Subleading Poles in the Numerical Unitarity Method at Two Loops},
author = {S. Abreu and F. Febres Cordero and H. Ita and M. Jaquier and B. Page},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05255},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
18 pages, 4 figures. v2: Minor text improvements; added reference; matches published version