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We develop a unitarity method to compute one-loop amplitudes with massless propagators in d=4-2*epsilon dimensions. We compute double cuts of the loop amplitudes via a decomposition into a four-dimensional and a -2*epsilon-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Charalampos Anastasiou , Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Zoltan Kunszt , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

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 the publicly available program NGluon allowing the numerical evaluation of primitive amplitudes at one-loop order in massless QCD. The program allows the computation of one-loop amplitudes for an arbitrary number of gluons. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-02 Simon Badger , Benedikt Biedermann , Peter Uwer

We present a method for the direct extraction of rational contributions to one-loop scattering amplitudes, missed by standard four-dimensional unitarity techniques. We use generalised unitarity in $D=4-2\e$ dimensions to write the loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-27 S. D. Badger

We present the one-loop QCD amplitudes for two external massless quarks and three external gluons ($\bar{q}qggg$). This completes the set of one-loop amplitudes needed for the next-to-leading-order corrections to three-jet production at…

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

We present an alternative reduction to master integrals for one-loop amplitudes using a unitarity cut method in arbitrary dimensions. We carry out the reduction in two steps. The first step is a pure four-dimensional cut-integration of tree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Charalampos Anastasiou , Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Zoltan Kunszt , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We develop an algorithm of polynomial complexity for evaluating one-loop amplitudes with an arbitrary number of external particles. The algorithm is implemented in the Rocket program. Starting from particle vertices given by Feynman rules,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-05 W. T. Giele , G. Zanderighi

Using CSW rules for constructing scalar Feynman diagrams from MHV vertices, we compute the contribution of $\mathcal {N}=1$ chiral multiplet to one-loop MHV gluon amplitude. The result agrees with the one obtained previously using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Callum Quigley , Moshe Rozali

We consider one-loop amplitudes of a Higgs boson coupled to gluons in the limit of a large top quark mass. We treat the Higgs as the real part of a complex field phi that couples to the self-dual field strengths and compute the one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-22 Simon Badger , E. W. Nigel Glover , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Ciaran Williams

In this article we present a method to generate analytic expressions for the integral coefficients of loop amplitudes using numerical evaluations only. We use high-precision arithmetic to explore the singularity structure of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-09 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Daniel Maître

We discuss the calculation of one-loop amplitudes in N=8 supergravity using MHV diagrams. In contrast to MHV amplitudes of gluons in Yang-Mills, tree-level MHV amplitudes of gravitons are not holomorphic in the spinor variables. In order to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Adele Nasti , Gabriele Travaglini

We use on-shell recursion relations to compute analytically the one-loop corrections to maximally-helicity-violating n-gluon amplitudes in QCD. The cut-containing parts have been computed previously; our work supplies the remaining rational…

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

We propose a new, twistor string theory inspired formalism to calculate loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. In this approach, maximal helicity violating (MHV) tree amplitudes of N=4 super Yang-Mills are used as vertices, using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

Unitarity cuts are widely used in analytic computation of loop amplitudes in gauge theories such as QCD. We expand upon the technique introduced in hep-ph/0503132 to carry out any finite unitarity cut integral. This technique naturally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We construct all supergravity theories that can be obtained through factorized orbifold projections of N=8 supergravity, exposing their double-copy structure, and calculate their one-loop four-point scattering amplitudes. We observe a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Marco Chiodaroli , Murat Gunaydin , Radu Roiban

We develop a manifestly supersymmetric version of the generalized unitarity cut method for calculating scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory. We illustrate the power of this method by computing the one-loop n-point NMHV super-amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

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

We show how the MHV diagram description of Yang-Mills theories can be used to study non-supersymmetric loop amplitudes. In particular, we derive a compact expression for the cut-constructible part of the general one-loop MHV multi-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-14 James Bedford , Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

After reduction techniques, two-loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory can be written in a basis of integrals containing scalar double-box integrals with rational coefficients, though the complete basis is unknown. Generically, at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Freddy Cachazo

We calculate gauge theory one-loop amplitudes with the aid of the complex shift used in the Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten (BCFW) recursion relations of tree amplitudes. We apply the shift to the integrand and show that the contribution from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Savan Kharel , George Siopsis