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We present a set of one-loop integral coefficient relations in QCD. The unitarity method is useful for exposing one-loop amplitudes in terms of tree amplitudes. The coefficient relations are induced by tree-level BCJ amplitude relations. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-30 David Chester

We present a new procedure using on-shell recursion to determine coefficients of integral functions appearing in one-loop scattering amplitudes of gauge theories, including QCD. With this procedure, coefficients of integrals, including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Zvi Bern , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , David C. Dunbar , Harald Ita

We suggest a new approach for the automatic and fully numerical evaluation of one-loop scattering amplitudes in perturbative quantum field theory. We use suitably formulated dispersion relations to perform the calculation as a convolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-09-29 M. Moretti , F. Piccinini , A. D. Polosa

This article reviews on-shell methods for analytic computation of loop amplitudes, emphasizing techniques based on unitarity cuts. Unitarity techniques are formulated generally but have been especially useful for calculating one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Ruth Britto

We show that one-loop amplitudes in massless gauge theories can be determined from single cuts. By cutting a single propagator and putting it on-shell, the integrand of an n-point one-loop integral is transformed into an (n+2)-particle tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-25 E. W. Nigel Glover , Ciaran Williams

We present a program for the numerical evaluation of scalar integrals and tensor form factors entering the calculation of one-loop amplitudes which supports the use of complex masses in the loop integrals. The program is built on an earlier…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 G. Cullen , J. -Ph. Guillet , G. Heinrich , T. Kleinschmidt , E. Pilon , T. Reiter , M. Rodgers

We present a numerical implementation of generalized unitarity. We will show that we are able to obtain the box coefficients of any 1 loop gluonic amplitude, for an arbitrary helicity configuration and for any number of external particles.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-01-15 Petros Draggiotis

We show how Stokes' Theorem, in the fashion of the Generalised Cauchy Formula, can be applied for computing double-cut integrals of one-loop amplitudes analytically. It implies the evaluation of phase-space integrals of rational functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 Pierpaolo Mastrolia

Various implementations of the Unitarity method have been developed to compute one-loop amplitudes in gauge theories. In this paper we present an implementation which uses canonical forms to generate the rational coefficients of the basis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-24 David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins , Edmund Warrick

One remaining problem of unitarity cut method for one-loop integral reduction is that tadpole coefficients can not be straightforward obtained through this way. In this paper, we reconsider the problem by applying differential operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Bo Feng , Tingfei Li , Xiaodi Li

We study scalar one-loop amplitudes in massive $\phi^3$-theory within causal loop-tree duality. We derive a recurrence relation for the integrand of the amplitude. The integrand is by construction free of spurious singularities on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-07 Sascha Kromin , Niklas Schwanemann , Stefan Weinzierl

Unitarity cut method has been proved to be very useful in the computation of one-loop integrals. In this paper, we generalize the method to the situation where the powers of propagators in the denominator are larger than one in general. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Bo Feng , Hongbin Wang

Recently, it has been shown that the holomorphic anomaly of unitarity cuts can be used as a tool in determining the one-loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. It is interesting to examine whether this method can be applied to more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 Steven J. Bidder , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Lance J. Dixon , David C. Dunbar

Now there are many different methods to do the PV-reduction for the one loop amplitudes. Two of them are unitarity cut method and generalized unitarity cut method. In this short paper, we present an explicit connection of these two methods,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Yang An , Zi-ang Hu , Zhongjie Huang , Yi Li , Xiang Lv

Loop amplitudes are conveniently expressed in terms of master integrals whose coefficients carry the process dependent information. Similarly before integration, the loop integrands may be expressed as a linear combination of propagator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 Harald Ita

We study generic one-loop (string) amplitudes where an integration over the fundamental region F of the modular group is needed. We show how the known lattice-reduction technique used to unfold F to a more suitable region S can be modified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Trapletti

The integrand-level methods for the reduction of scattering amplitudes are well-established techniques, which have already proven their effectiveness in several applications at one-loop. In addition to the automation and refinement of tools…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-05 P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella , G. Ossola , T. Peraro , H. van Deurzen

We present a program that implements the OPP reduction method to extract the coefficients of the one-loop scalar integrals from a user defined (sub)-amplitude or Feynman Diagram, as well as the rational terms coming from the 4-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Giovanni Ossola , Costas G. Papadopoulos , Roberto Pittau

Generalized-unitarity calculations of two-loop amplitudes are performed by expanding the amplitude in a basis of master integrals and then determining the coefficients by taking a number of generalized cuts. In this paper, we present a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-08 Simon Caron-Huot , Kasper J. Larsen

We present an algorithm for the integrand-level reduction of multi-loop amplitudes of renormalizable field theories, based on computational algebraic geometry. This algorithm uses (1) the Gr\"obner basis method to determine the basis for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Yang Zhang