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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 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 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

We present an analytic reconstruction of one-loop amplitudes for the process $0 \to \bar{q}qt\bar{t}H$. Our calculation is a novel use of analytic reconstruction, retaining explicit covariance in the massive spin states through the massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 John M. Campbell , Giuseppe De Laurentis , R. Keith Ellis

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

We compute the one-loop corrections to \tth up to order $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2)$ in the dimensional regularization parameter. We apply the projector method to compute polarized amplitudes, which generalize massless helicity amplitudes to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-18 Federico Buccioni , Philipp Alexander Kreer , Xiao Liu , Lorenzo Tancredi

We present an explicit formula for the n-point MHV one-loop amplitude in a N=4 supergravity theory. This formula is derived from the soft and collinear factorisations of the amplitude.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 David C. Dunbar , James H. Ettle , Warren B. Perkins

We compute the anomalous two-loop four-point amplitudes in N=4 pure supergravity, using unitarity and the double-copy construction. We also present all terms determined by four-dimensional cuts in two all-multiplicity two-loop anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-07 Zvi Bern , David Kosower , Julio Parra-Martinez

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

We compute the complete one-loop corrections to the simplest class of QCD gluon amplitudes, those with two color-adjacent opposite-helicity external particles. We present results for an arbitrary number of external legs. The computation…

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

Using three coupled harmonic oscillators, we present an amplitude-amplification method for factorization of an integer. We generalize the method in [arXiv:1007.4338] by employing non-orthogonal measurements on the harmonic oscillator. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 H. T. Ng , Franco Nori

We extend the $S$-matrix of gravity by the addition of the minimal three-point amplitude or equivalently adding $R^3$ terms to the Lagrangian. We demonstrate how Unitarity can be used to simply examine the renormalisability of this theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-28 David C. Dunbar , John H. Godwin , Guy R. Jehu , Warren B. Perkins

In this thesis, we study the all same helicity loop amplitudes in self-dual Yang-Mills and self-dual gravity. These amplitudes have long been conjectured to be interpreted as an anomaly and are recently linked to the UV divergence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-24 Pratik Chattopadhyay

At tree-level, gravity amplitudes are obtainable directly from gauge theory amplitudes via the Kawai, Lewellen and Tye closed-open string relations. We explain how the unitarity method allows us to use these relations to obtain coefficients…

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

We derive an ABDK-like relation between the one- and two-loop four-graviton amplitudes in N=8 supergravity. Specifically we show that the infrared divergent part of the two-loop amplitude is one-half the square of the one-loop amplitude,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephen G. Naculich , Horatiu Nastase , Howard J. Schnitzer

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

A method to define and calculate one-loop amplitudes with an off-shell space-like, or $k_T$-dependent, gluon is presented. It introduces a practical regularization to deal with the divergencies that appear due to linear denominators, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-01 A. van Hameren

We use unitarity techniques to compute the two-loop non-planar corrections to the Sudakov form factor and the four-point amplitude in ABJM theory. We start by reconstructing non-planar integrals from two-particle cuts in three dimensions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-09 Lorenzo Bianchi , Marco S. Bianchi

Recently, the spinor helicity formalism and on-shell superspace were developed for six-dimensional gauge theories with (1,1) supersymmetry. We combine these two techniques with (generalised) unitarity, which is a powerful technique to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Andreas Brandhuber , Dimitrios Korres , Daniel Koschade , Gabriele Travaglini

We compute the one-loop QCD amplitude for the process gg-->Q\bar{Q} in dimensional regularization through order \epsilon^2 in the dimensional regulator and for arbitrary quark mass values. This result is an ingredient of the NNLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-30 Charalampos Anastasiou , S. Mert Aybat