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A simple formula for one-loop logarithmic divergences on the background of a two-dimensional curved space-time is derived for theories for which the second variation of the action is a nonminimal second order operator with small nonminimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 H. P. Popova , K. V. Stepanyantz

Scattering amplitudes at loop level can be expressed in terms of Feynman integrals. The latter satisfy partial differential equations in the kinematical variables. We argue that a good choice of basis for (multi-)loop integrals can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-26 Johannes M. Henn

An improved PV-reduction method for one-loop integrals with auxiliary vector $R$ has been proposed in \cite{Feng:2021enk,Hu:2021nia}. It has also been shown that the new method is a self-completed method in \cite{Feng:2022uqp}. Analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Bo Feng , Chang Hu , Tingfei Li , Yuekai Song

The calculation of exclusive observables beyond the one-loop level requires elaborate techniques for the computation of multi-leg two-loop integrals. We discuss how the large number of different integrals appearing in actual two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Gehrmann , E. Remiddi

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

We discuss recent progress in multi-loop integrand reduction methods. Motivated by the possibility of an automated construction of multi-loop amplitudes via generalized unitarity cuts we describe a procedure to obtain a general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

Loop amplitudes are conveniently expressed in terms of master integrals whose coefficients carry the process dependent information. Similarly before integration, the loop integrands may be expressed as a linear combination of propagator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 Harald Ita

We present the integrand reduction via multivariate polynomial division as a natural technique to encode the unitarity conditions of Feynman amplitudes. We derive a recursive formula for the integrand reduction, valid for arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella , G. Ossola , T. Peraro

A general one-loop scattering amplitude may be expanded in terms of master integrals. The coefficients of the master integrals can be obtained from tree-level input in a two-step process. First, use known formulas to write the coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-14 Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Gang Yang

We elaborate upon and consolidate various recent developments focusing on the triality of questions offered by issues of basis building, unitarity and non-polylogarithmicity in quantum field theory, specifically for planar two loops. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-02 Nikhil Kalyanapuram

I study the Feynman integrals needed to compute two-loop self-energy functions for general masses and external momenta. A convenient basis for these functions consists of the four integrals obtained at the end of Tarasov's recurrence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Stephen P. Martin

Dimensional regularization of Euclidean momentum space integrals is a highly successful technique in renormalization of quantum field theories. While it yields a straightforward algorithmic method, with which to evaluate diagrams beyond…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 Juuso Österman

We present analytic results of the two-loop master integrals for hadronic $tW$ production that contain two massive propagators. For the planar integral family, we succeed in constructing the canonical basis, so the results are written in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-17 Jian Wang , Yefan Wang

We investigate the consequences of elliptic leading singularities for the unitarity-based representations of two-loop amplitudes in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We show that diagonalizing with respect to these leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-22 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Nikhil Kalyanapuram , Cameron Langer , Kokkimidis Patatoukos

Several problems in computer algebra can be efficiently solved by reducing them to calculations over finite fields. In this paper, we describe an algorithm for the reconstruction of multivariate polynomials and rational functions from their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-14 Tiziano Peraro

We describe methods for evaluating one-loop integrals in $4-2\e$ dimensions. We give a recursion relation that expresses the scalar $n$-point integral as a cyclicly symmetric combination of $(n-1)$-point integrals. The computation of such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

We study generic one-loop (string) amplitudes where an integration over the fundamental region F of the modular group is needed. We show how the known lattice-reduction technique used to unfold F to a more suitable region S can be modified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Trapletti

At variance with fully inclusive quantities, which have been computed already at the two- or three-loop level, most exclusive observables are still known only at one loop, as further progress was hampered up to very recently by the greater…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Gehrmann , E. Remiddi

A numerical approach to compute tensor integrals in one-loop calculations is presented. The algorithm is based on a recursion relation which allows to express high rank tensor integrals as a function of lower rank ones. At each level of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 F. del Aguila , R. Pittau

In this presentation, we review the general features of integrand-reduction techniques, with a particular focus on their generalization beyond one loop. We start with a brief discussion of the one-loop scenario, a case in which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-01 Giovanni Ossola