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We present results for the O(alpha_s) virtual corrections to q g -> W b bbar q' obtained with a new automatized approach to the evaluation of one-loop amplitudes in terms of Feynman diagrams. Together with the O(alpha_s) corrections to q q'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Laura Reina , Thomas Schutzmeier

We present a calculation of soft-gluon corrections in FCNC top-quark production via anomalous $t$-$q$-$g$ couplings. The soft anomalous dimension matrix is explicitly calculated at one-loop accuracy. This calculation allows threshold…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Elwin Martin

We present compact analytic formulae for the one-loop amplitudes for Higgs + 4 parton scattering, $0 \to g g g g h$, $0 \to \bar{q} q gg h$ and $0\to \bar{q} q \bar{q}^\prime q^\prime h$, mediated by a loop of massive coloured quarks. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-24 Lucy Budge , John M. Campbell , Giuseppe De Laurentis , R. Keith Ellis , Satyajit Seth

The one-loop QCD heavy quark potential is computed to order v^2 in the color singlet and octet channels. Several errors in the previous literature are corrected. To be consistent with the velocity power counting, the full dependence on |p'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Aneesh V. Manohar , Iain W. Stewart

We present an explicit expression for a particular $n$-gluon two loop scattering partial amplitude. Specifically we present an analytic form for the single trace $N_c$ independent colour partial amplitude for the case where all external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-08 David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins , Joseph M. W. Strong

The rational parts of 5-gluon one-loop amplitudes are computed by using the newly developed method for computing the rational parts directly from Feynman integrals. We found complete agreement with the previously well-known results of Bern,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Xun Su , Zhi-Guang Xiao , Gang Yang , Chuan-Jie Zhu

We present a calculation of the NLO QCD corrections to the loop-induced production of a photon pair through gluon fusion, including massive top quarks at two loops. The two-loop virtual amplitudes are computed via projecting onto a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-13 Long Chen , Gudrun Heinrich , Stephan Jahn , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Johannes Schlenk , Hiroshi Yokoya

We present a computer library for the numerical evaluation of colour-ordered n-gluon amplitudes at one-loop order in pure Yang-Mills theory. The library uses the recently developed technique of generalised unitarity. Running in double…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-05 Simon Badger , Benedikt Biedermann , Peter Uwer

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 compute the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the production of three photons at hadron colliders in QCD at leading-color. Using the two-loop numerical unitarity method coupled with analytic reconstruction techniques, we obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-20 S. Abreu , B. Page , E. Pascual , V. Sotnikov

We calculate the $O(\alpha_s)$ and $O(\alpha_s^2)$ gluon radiative corrections to the QCD sum rule for the first Gegenbauer moment $a_1^K$ of the kaon light-cone distribution amplitude. The NNL0 accuracy is achieved for the perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. G. Chetyrkin , A. Khodjamirian , A. A. Pivovarov

We present the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for quark-gluon scattering, and for quark-antiquark annihilation into two gluons. These amplitudes are relevant for next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to (polarized) jet production at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-28 Z. Bern , A. De Freitas , L. Dixon

In this talk we examine how one-loop soft and collinear splitting functions occur in the calculation of next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections to production rates, and we present the one-loop gluon soft and splitting functions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Zvi Bern , Vittorio Del Duca , William B. Kilgore , Carl R. Schmidt

I describe a method for determining the coefficients of scalar integrals for one-loop amplitudes in quantum field theory. The method is based upon generalized unitarity and the behavior of amplitudes when the free parameters of the cut…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-12 William B. Kilgore

We present recent advancements in the computation of three-loop four-particle helicity amplitudes in full-color massless QCD. In this contribution, we focus on the $gg \to \gamma\gamma$ process. We show how to obtain compact analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Piotr Bargiela

We provide the last missing ingredient necessary to approximate one-loop amplitudes in QCD with massive quarks in the limit of vanishing energy of a single gluon up to terms suppressed by this energy. Our main result is a soft operator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-13 Michał Czakon , Kilian Erhard Minguez , Felix Eschment

We present an analytic expression for the six-point all-plus helicity amplitude in QCD at two-loops. We compute the rational terms in a compact analytic form organised by their singularity structure.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-10 David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins

We calculate the two-loop QCD corrections to $gg \to ZZ$ involving a closed top-quark loop. We present a new method to systematically construct linear combinations of Feynman integrals with a convergent parametric representation, where we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Bakul Agarwal , Stephen P. Jones , Andreas von Manteuffel

Production of the Higgs boson, $H$ in association with a massive vector boson, $V$, i.e., the $VH$ process, plays an important role in the explorations of Higgs physics at the Large Hadron Collider, both for a precise study of Higgs'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Taushif Ahmed , A. H. Ajjath , Long Chen , Prasanna K. Dhani , Pooja Mukherjee , V. Ravindran

We compute the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the $gg \to W^+ W^- \to l^+_1 \nu_1 l^-_2 \bar \nu_2$ process, mediated by a massless quark loop, at the LHC. This process first contributes to the hadroproduction of $W^+W^-$ at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-27 Fabrizio Caola , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch , Lorenzo Tancredi