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I review the recent progress in the evaluation of two-loop massive QCD amplitudes necessary for the description of hadronic scattering processes at the LHC. I put a special emphasis on the case of top-quark final states.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Czakon

Soft and virtual loop photonic contributions to the second order next-to-leading QED radiative corrections to Bhabha scattering are calculated with help of the renormalization group approach. The results are in agreement with earlier…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-01 A. B. Arbuzov , E. S. Scherbakova

I present the computation of the two-loop amplitudes for the scattering of a lepton pair with an off-shell and an on-shell photon in massless QED. We apply modern techniques developed to tackle QCD amplitudes with many scales: we express…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Simone Zoia

We study almost-forward scattering in the context of usual and non-commutative QED. We study the semi-classical behaviour of particles undergoing this scattering process in the two theories, and show that the shock wave picture, effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Zafar Ahmed , Tapobrata Sarkar

The asymptotic behavior of the scattering amplitude for two scalar particles at high energies with fixed momentum transfers is studied. The study is done within the effective theory of quantum gravity based on quasi-potential equation. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Nguyen Suan Han , Do Thu Ha , Nguyen Nhu Xuan

Analytical method is applied for description of the small angle Bhabha scattering at LEP1. Inclusive event selection for asymmetrical wide-narrow circular detectors is considered. The QED correction to the Born cross-section is calculated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 N. P. Merenkov

In recent studies on ultrastrong coupling between matter and light in cavities, the significance of gauge choice when employing the widely-used two-level approximation has been highlighted. Expanding upon these investigations, we extend the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Sergi Terradas-Briansó , Luis Martín-Moreno , David Zueco

Theoretical predictions for Bhabha scattering observables are presented including complete one-loop electroweak radiative corrections. A longitudinal polarization of the initial beams is taken into account. Numerical results for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-11 D. Bardin , A. Arbuzov , S. Bondarenko , Ya. Dydyshka , L. Kalinovskaya , L. Rumyantsev , R. Sadykov

We present the values of the complete set of planar four-point Master Integrals needed for massive Bhabha scattering in the limit of fixed angle and high energy at the two-loop level. The integrals have been calculated using direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 M. Czakon , J. Gluza , T. Riemann

A simple general proof of gauge invariance in QED is given in the framework of causal perturbation theory. It illustrates a method which can also be used in non-abelian gauge theories.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Michael Duetsch , Tobias Hurth , Guenter Scharf

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of massless quarks and massless gauge bosons in QCD. We use projector techniques to compute the coefficients of the general tensor describing the two-quark two-boson amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 E. W. N. Glover , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

We compute the two-loop QCD corrections to $q g \to H q$ and $q \bar{q} \to H g$ amplitudes mediated by loops of nearly massless quarks. These amplitudes provide the last missing ingredient required to compute the NLO QCD corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-22 Kirill Melnikov , Lorenzo Tancredi , Christopher Wever

The $O(\alpha^2\log(Q^2/m_e^2))$ leptonic QED corrections to unpolarized deeply inelastic electron-nucleon scattering are calculated in the mixed variables.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Blümlein , H. Kawamura

We consider the leading post-Newtonian and quantum corrections to the non-relativistic scattering amplitude of charged spin-1/2 fermions in the combined theory of general relativity and QED. The coupled Dirac-Einstein system is treated as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. S. Butt

We discuss the role of gravitational corrections to the running of the electric charge through the evaluation of scattering amplitudes of charged particles in massless scalar electrodynamics. Computing the complete divergent part of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 B. Charneski , A. C. Lehum , A. J. da Silva

Using dispersion relations, we derive the complete virtual QED contributions to Bhabha scattering due to vacuum polarization effects in photon propagation. We apply our result to hadronic corrections and to heavy lepton and top quark loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Actis , Michal Czakon , Janusz Gluza , Tord Riemann

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of massless quarks in QCD. We use projector techniques to compute the coefficients of the general four-quark amplitude at up to two-loops in conventional dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 E. W. N. Glover

We present the two-loop virtual QCD corrections to the production of heavy quarks in gluon fusion. The results are exact in the limit when all kinematical invariants are large compared to the mass of the heavy quark up to terms suppressed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 M. Czakon , A. Mitov , S. Moch

We derive an ABDK-like relation between the one- and two-loop four-graviton amplitudes in N=8 supergravity. Specifically we show that the infrared divergent part of the two-loop amplitude is one-half the square of the one-loop amplitude,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephen G. Naculich , Horatiu Nastase , Howard J. Schnitzer

In this paper we compute and discuss the differential cross section of the Bhabha scattering in the framework of the $z=2$ Lifshitz QED. We start by constructing the classical solutions for the fermionic fields, in particular the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Bufalo