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We study the factorisation properties of one-loop scattering amplitudes in the triple collinear limit and extract the universal splitting amplitudes for processes initiated by a gluon. The splitting amplitudes are derived from the analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-20 Simon Badger , Francesco Buciuni , Tiziano Peraro

We show how generalised unitarity cuts in D = 4 - 2 epsilon dimensions can be used to calculate efficiently complete one-loop scattering amplitudes in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This approach naturally generates the rational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Simon McNamara , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

We introduce a new technique to generate scattering amplitudes at one loop. Traditional tree algorithms, which handle diagrams with fixed momenta, are promoted to generators of loop-momentum polynomials that we call open loops. Combining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Fabio Cascioli , Philipp Maierhöfer , Stefano Pozzorini

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

A c++ implementation of the D_s-dimensional unitarity cut algorithm for the numerical evaluation of the virtual contribution to NLO QCD amplitudes is presented. The current version includes an arbitrary number of external gluons with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-17 A. Lazopoulos

We present advances in the development of the numerical unitarity method for the computation of multi-loop amplitudes in QCD. As an application, we show results for all the leading-color two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitudes. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-26 Samuel Abreu , Fernando Febres Cordero , Harald Ita , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

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 recompute the functions describing the collinear factorization of one-loop amplitudes using the unitarity-based method. We present the results in a form suitable for use as an ingredient in two-loop calculations. We also present a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 David A. Kosower , Peter Uwer

We compute two infinite series of tree-level amplitudes with a massive scalar pair and an arbitrary number of gluons. We provide results for amplitudes where all gluons have identical helicity, and amplitudes with one gluon of opposite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

A general formalism for computing only the rational parts of oneloop QCD amplitudes is developed. Starting from the Feynman integral representation of the one-loop amplitude, we use tensor reduction and recursive relations to compute the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhi-Guang Xiao , Gang Yang , Chuan-Jie Zhu

We identify a large class of one-loop amplitudes for massless particles that can be constructed via unitarity from tree amplitudes, without any ambiguities. One-loop amplitudes for massless supersymmetric gauge theories fall into this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. C. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

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

Techniques based upon the string organisation of amplitudes may be used to simplify field theory calculations. We apply these techniques to perturbative gravity and calculate all one-loop amplitudes for four-graviton scattering with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 David C. Dunbar , Paul S. Norridge

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 present a new method for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory. It extends the Generalized Unitarity method by constraining not only the integrand of the amplitude but also its full integrated form. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Piotr Bargiela

The recently developed on-shell bootstrap for computing one-loop amplitudes in non-supersymmetric theories such as QCD combines the unitarity method with loop-level on-shell recursion. For generic helicity configurations, the recursion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carola F. Berger , Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

One-loop amplitudes of gluons in supersymmetric Yang-Mills are four-dimensional cut-constructible. This means that they can be determined from their unitarity cuts. We present a new systematic procedure to explicitly carry out any finite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 Ruth Britto , Evgeny Buchbinder , Freddy Cachazo , Bo Feng

We describe a general method that enables us to obtain all the singular terms of helicity amplitudes of n-parton processes at one loop. The algorithm uses helicity amplitudes at tree level and simple color algebra. We illustrate the method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Zoltan Kunszt , Adrian Signer , Zoltan Trocsanyi

This note reports on an independent implementation of calculating one-loop amplitudes semi-numerically using generalized unitarity techniques. The algorithm implemented in form of a C++ code closely follows the method by Ellis, Giele,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-03 Jan-Christopher Winter , Walter T. Giele

We combine the six-dimensional helicity formalism of Cheung and O'Connell with D-dimensional generalized unitarity to obtain a new formalism for computing one-loop amplitudes in dimensionally regularized QCD. With this procedure, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Scott Davies