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We compute the two-loop massless QCD corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the production of two electroweak gauge bosons in the gluon fusion channel, $gg \to V_1 V_2$, keeping the virtuality of the vector bosons $V_1$ and $V_2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-14 Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

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

In this paper, we show how to calculate analytically the one-loop helicity amplitudes for the process $q\bar{q} rightarrow t\bar{t}$ induced by KK gluon, using the spinor-helicity formalism. A minimal set of Feynman rules which are uniquely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-15 Hua Xing Zhu , Chong Sheng Li , Liang Dai , Jun Gao , Jian Wang , C. -P. Yuan

We present an expression for the QCD amplitude for a general hard scattering process with any number of soft gluon emissions, to one-loop accuracy. The amplitude is written in two different but equivalent ways: as a product of operators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-01 René Ángeles-Martínez , Jeffrey R. Forshaw , Michael H. Seymour

In unitarity cut method, compact input of on-shell tree level amplitudes is crucial to simplify calculations. Although BCFW on-shell recursion relation gives very compact tree level amplitudes, they usually contain spurious poles. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Bo Feng , Gang Yang

We present an extension of the spinor integration formalism of one loop amplitudes from the double-cut to the single-cut case. This technique can be applied for the computation of the tadpole coefficients. Moreover we describe an off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-14 Ruth Britto , Edoardo Mirabella

We review recent progress in calculations of one-loop QCD amplitudes. By imposing the consistency requirements of unitarity and correct behavior as the momenta of two legs become collinear, we construct ansatze for one-loop amplitudes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

We review techniques for more efficient computation of perturbative scattering amplitudes in gauge theory, in particular tree and one-loop multi-parton amplitudes in QCD. We emphasize the advantages of (1) using color and helicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 L. Dixon

In this talk, we discuss top-quark contributions to $ZZ$ production through gluon fusion at two loops. We use syzygies and modular arithmetic to compute the reductions to master integrals. In order to numerically evaluate the amplitude, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-19 Bakul Agarwal , Andreas von Manteuffel

We explain how one-loop amplitudes with massive fermions can be computed using only on-shell information. We first use the spinor-helicity formalism in six dimensions to perform generalised unitarity cuts in $d$ dimensions. We then show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Francesco Buciuni , Donal O'Connell

Light cone perturbation theory has become an essential tool to calculate cross sections for various small-$x$ dilute-dense processes such as deep inelastic scattering and forward proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions. Here we set out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Tuomas Lappi , Risto Paatelainen

We present formulas for the coefficients of 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-point master integrals for one-loop massive amplitudes. The coefficients are derived from unitarity cuts in D dimensions. The input parameters can be read off from any…

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

The googly amplitudes in gauge theory are computed by using the off shell MHV vertices with the newly proposed rules of Cachazo, Svrcek and Witten. The result is in agreement with the previously well-known results. In particular we also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Chuan-Jie Zhu

Calculation of amplitudes in perturbative quantum field theory involve large loop integrals. The complexity of those integrals, in combination with the large number of Feynman diagrams, make the calculations very difficult. Reduction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Ronald H. P. Kleiss , Ioannis Malamos , Costas G. Papadopoulos , Rob Verheyen

We compute the part of the two-loop virtual amplitude for the process $gg \to V_1 V_2 \to (l_1 \bar l'_{1}) (l_2 \bar l'_2)$, where $V_{1,2}$ are arbitrary electroweak gauge bosons, that receives contributions from loops of massless quarks.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-02 Fabrizio Caola , Johannes M. Henn , Kirill Melnikov , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

In this letter we present a recursive method for computing one-loop off-shell amplitudes in colored quantum field theories. First, we generalize the perturbiner method by recasting the multiparticle currents as generators of off-shell tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-14 Humberto Gomez , Renann Lipinski Jusinskas , Cristhiam Lopez-Arcos , Alexander Quintero Velez

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

Splitting amplitudes govern the behavior of scattering amplitudes at the momenta of external legs become collinear. In this talk we outline the calculation of two-loop splitting amplitudes via the unitarity sewing method. This method…

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

We consider the process containing two quark lines and an arbitrary number of gluons in a spinor helicity framework. A current with two off-shell gluons appears in the amplitude. We first study this modified gluon current using recursion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 G. Mahlon , T. M. Yan , C. Dunn

We illustrate the use of recursion relations in the computation of certain one-loop helicity amplitudes containing an arbitrary number of gauge bosons. After a brief review of the recursion relations themselves, we discuss the resolution of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory Mahlon