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We study the infrared behaviour of tree-level QCD amplitudes and we derive infrared-factorization formulae that are valid at any perturbative order. We explicitly compute all the universal infrared factors that control the singularities in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Catani , M. Grazzini

In this talk we discuss an algorithm for the numerical calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes and present results at next-to-leading order for jet observables in electron-positron annihilation calculated with the above-mentioned method. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-16 S. Becker , D. Goetz , C. Reuschle , C. Schwan , S. Weinzierl

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

We review the construction of locally finite two-loop amplitude integrands for photoproduction via quark annihilation, presented in arXiv:2509.07805. Building on established techniques for off-shell colorless production, we extend this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Charalampos Anastasiou , Julia Karlen , Roshni Sahoo , George Sterman , Matilde Vicini

We describe the recently developed on-shell bootstrap for computing one-loop amplitudes in non-supersymmetric theories such as QCD. The method combines the unitarity method with loop-level on-shell recursion. The unitarity method is used to…

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

We describe the decomposition of one-loop QCD amplitudes in terms of colour-ordered building blocks. We give new expressions for the coefficients of QCD colour structures in terms of ordered objects called primitive amplitudes, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Harald Ita , Kemal Ozeren

We study the singularity structure of two-loop QED amplitudes for the production of multiple off-shell photons in massless electron-positron annihilation and develop counterterms that remove their infrared and ultraviolet divergences point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-26 Charalampos Anastasiou , Rayan Haindl , George Sterman , Zhou Yang , Mao Zeng

We establish an efficient polynomial-complexity algorithm for one-loop calculations, based on generalized $D$-dimensional unitarity. It allows automated computations of both cut-constructible {\it and} rational parts of one-loop scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 Walter T. Giele , Zoltan Kunszt , Kirill Melnikov

A new method for local subtraction at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD is sketched, attempting to conjugate the minimal counterterm structure arising from a sector partition of the radiation phase space with the simplifications…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-25 Lorenzo Magnea , Ezio Maina , Paolo Torrielli , Sandro Uccirati

The integrand-level methods for the reduction of scattering amplitudes are well-established techniques, which have already proven their effectiveness in several applications at one-loop. In addition to the automation and refinement of tools…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-05 P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella , G. Ossola , T. Peraro , H. van Deurzen

I describe how to calculate cross sections for hard-scattering processes in high energy collisions at next to leading order in QCD. I consider infrared-safe quantities and I assume that the scattering amplitudes are known in analytic form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Kunszt

We report on the next-to-leading order QCD calculation for e+ e- --> 4 jets. We explain some modern techniques which have been used to calculate the one-loop amplitudes efficiently. We further report on the general purpose numerical program…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefan Weinzierl

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 recently presented a new method for the evaluation of one-loop amplitude of arbitrary scattering processes, in which the reduction to scalar integrals is performed at the integrand level. In this talk, we review the main features of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-09-17 Giovanni Ossola

We construct a specific formalism for calculating the one-loop virtual corrections for standard model processes with an arbitrary number of external legs. The procedure explicitly separates the infrared and ultraviolet divergences…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 W. T. Giele , E. W. N. Glover

We present a new method for the local subtraction of infrared divergences at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, for generic infrared-safe observables. Our method attempts to conjugate the minimal local counterterm structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-03 Lorenzo Magnea , Ezio Maina , Giovanni Pelliccioli , Chiara Signorile-Signorile , Paolo Torrielli , Sandro Uccirati

We show how to extract the coefficients of the 4-, 3-, 2- and 1-point one-loop scalar integrals from the full one-loop amplitude of arbitrary scattering processes. In a similar fashion, also the rational terms can be derived. Basically no…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Giovanni Ossola , Costas G. Papadopoulos , Roberto Pittau

We present the analytic results of one-loop squared amplitudes for $tW$ production at a hadron collider. The calculation is performed using the method of differential equations. After renormalization, we have checked that the infrared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-30 Long-Bin Chen , Liang Dong , Hai Tao Li , Zhao Li , Jian Wang , Yefan Wang

We review the recently developed bootstrap method for the computation of high-multiplicity QCD amplitudes at one loop. We illustrate the general algorithm step by step with a six-point example. The method combines (generalized) unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carola F. Berger

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