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We calculate the complete two-loop QCD amplitudes for hadronic $tW$ production by combining analytical and numerical techniques. The amplitudes have been first reduced to master integrals of eight planar and seven non-planar families, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Long-Bin Chen , Liang Dong , Hai Tao Li , Zhao Li , Jian Wang , Yefan Wang

We present the O(alphas^4) virtual QCD corrections to gluon-gluon scattering due to the self-interference of the one-loop amplitude. We give analytic expressions renormalised in the MSbar scheme and work in conventional dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 E. W. N. Glover , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

Splitting amplitudes are universal functions governing the collinear behavior of scattering amplitudes for massless particles. We compute the two-loop g -> gg splitting amplitudes in QCD, N=1, and N=4 super-Yang-Mills theories, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-25 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

We calculate the one-loop QCD corrections for the decay of an off-shell vector boson with vector couplings into two pairs of quarks of equal or unequal flavours keeping all orders in the number of colours. These matrix elements are relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. W. N. Glover , D. J. Miller

We review techniques simplifying the analytic calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes with many external legs, for use in next-to-leading-order corrections to multi-jet processes. We explain how a supersymmetry-inspired organization works…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Dixon

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 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

We present a subtraction method utilizing the N-jettiness observable, Tau_N, to perform QCD calculations for arbitrary processes at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). Our method employs soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) to determine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-29 Jonathan Gaunt , Maximilian Stahlhofen , Frank J. Tackmann , Jonathan R. Walsh

QCD amplitudes are one of the most important ingredients for the understanding of the early universe. In this work we present how the knowledge of the asymptotic states can be used to calculate the scattering amplitude of the underline QCD…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-02 Andriniaina Narindra Rasoanaivo

We solve the integration-by-parts (IBP) identities needed for the computation of any planar two-loop five-point massless amplitude in QCD. We also derive some new results for the most complicated non-planar topology with irreducible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-13 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Matthew A. Lim , Alexander Mitov

We compute the two-loop QCD corrections to $q g \to H q$ and $q \bar{q} \to H g$ amplitudes mediated by loops of nearly massless quarks. These amplitudes provide the last missing ingredient required to compute the NLO QCD corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-22 Kirill Melnikov , Lorenzo Tancredi , Christopher Wever

A method for calculating phase-space master integrals for the decay process $1 \to n$ massless partons in QCD using integration-by-parts and differential equations techniques is discussed. The method is based on the appropriate choice of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 O. Gituliar

We discuss possibilities of measurement of deeply virtual Compton scattering amplitudes via different asymmetries in order to access the underlying skewed parton distributions. Perturbative one-loop coefficient functions and two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Belitsky , D. Müller , L. Niedermeier , A. Schäfer

Real and virtual corrections in NNLO QCD require multi-dimensional integrals with overlapping singularities. We first review ideas and methods which have been proposed for performing such computations. We then present a new method for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 Charalampos Anastasiou , Franz Herzog , Achilleas Lazopoulos

Quantum amplitude estimation is a key sub-routine of a number of quantum algorithms with various applications. We propose an adaptive algorithm for interval estimation of amplitudes. The quantum part of the algorithm is based only on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Yunpeng Zhao , Haiyan Wang , Kuai Xu , Yue Wang , Ji Zhu , Feng Wang

We review the current status of perturbative corrections in QCD at four loops for scattering processes with space- and time-like kinematics at colliders, with specific focus on deep-inelastic scattering and electron-positron annihilation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-19 S. Moch , V. Magerya

We compute the ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^3)$ virtual QCD corrections to the $\gamma^*\to q\bar q g$ matrix element arising from the interference of the two-loop with the tree-level amplitude and from the self-interference of the one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 L. W. Garland , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , A. Koukoutsakis , E. Remiddi

We describe a new method to perform NLO calculations, combining real and virtual amplitudes at the integrand level, with a fully local compensation between them in the IR, and between the virtual integrand and properly defined counter-terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-08 German Rodrigo , Felix Driencourt-Mangin , German F. R. Sborlini , Roger Jose Hernandez-Pinto

In a previous paper a new approach has been introduced for computing, recursively and numerically, one-loop tensor integrals. Here we describe a few modifications of the original method that allow a more efficient numerical implementation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Pittau

In this review, we present a new method for computing physical cross sections at NLO accuracy in QCD without using the standard Dimensional Regularisation. The algorithm is based on the Loop-Tree Duality theorem, which allow us to obtain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 R. J. Hernández-Pinto , F. Driencourt-Mangin , G. Rodrigo , G. F. R. Sborlini