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We present the O(alphas^4) virtual QCD corrections to the scattering process of massless quark qqbar -> gg due to the interference of tree and two-loop amplitudes and to the self-interference of one-loop amplitudes. We work in conventional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Anastasiou , E. W. N. Glover , C. Oleari , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

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

The QED trace anomaly is calculated at one-loop level based on the loop regularization method which is realized in 4-dimensional spacetime and preserves gauge symmetry and Poincare symmetry in spite of the introduction of two mass scales,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-26 Jian-Wei Cui , Yong-Liang Ma , Yue-Liang Wu

We introduce a streamlined method for evaluating in-in loop integrals using dimensional regularization for diagrams with an arbitrary number of external legs and vertices, which complements earlier work and facilitates the extraction of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Guillermo Ballesteros , Jesús Gambín Egea , Flavio Riccardi

We present the two-loop virtual QCD corrections to the scattering of massless identical quarks, q qbar to q qbar, in conventional dimensional regularisation and using the MSbar scheme. The structure of the infrared divergences agrees with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Anastasiou , E. W. N. Glover , C. Oleari , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

We present the program package GoSam which is designed for the automated calculation of one-loop amplitudes for multi-particle processes in renormalisable quantum field theories. The amplitudes, which are generated in terms of Feynman…

Perturbative QCD corrections to hadronic $\tau$ decays and $e^+e^-$ annihilation into hadrons below charm are obtained from the Adler function, which at present is known in the chiral limit to five-loop accuracy. Extractions of the strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Diogo Boito , Pere Masjuan , Fabio Oliani

We study QED corrections to operator matrix elements involving heavy composite particles (e.g., heavy-mesons, nuclei, and atoms). We define a new notion of reducible and irreducible graphs which is useful for systems with many discrete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-19 Ryan Plestid , Mark B. Wise

In this talk we examine how one-loop soft and collinear splitting functions occur in the calculation of next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections to production rates, and we present the one-loop gluon soft and splitting functions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Zvi Bern , Vittorio Del Duca , William B. Kilgore , Carl R. Schmidt

We discuss the lepton-pair production process in Quantum Electrodynamics. We present the ultraviolet-renormalised and infrared-subtracted finite contribution of the second-order virtual corrections to the inclusive lepton-pair production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Tommaso Armadillo , Simone Devoto , Michele Dradi , Alessandro Vicini

We calculate the one-loop QCD virtual corrections to all helicity amplitudes for parton level virtual Compton scattering processes. We include the amplitudes both on quark target process $\gamma^* q\to\gamma q$ and on gluon target process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 H. W. Huang , T. Morii

We present the two-loop virtual QCD corrections to the scattering of massless distinct quarks in conventional dimensional regularisation. The structure of the infrared divergences agrees with that predicted by Catani while expressions for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Anastasiou , E. W. N. Glover , C. Oleari , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

We describe in some detail the present features of an automatic loop calculation program as well as the integration techniques that go into it. The program, called XLOOPS 1.0, allows one to calculate massive one- and two-loop Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 A. Frink , J. G. Körner , J. B. Tausk

We present the version 2.0 of the program package GoSam for the automated calculation of one-loop amplitudes. GoSam is devised to compute one-loop QCD and/or electroweak corrections to multi-particle processes within and beyond the Standard…

We combine the six-dimensional helicity formalism of Cheung and O'Connell with D-dimensional generalized unitarity to obtain a new formalism for computing one-loop amplitudes in dimensionally regularized QCD. With this procedure, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Scott Davies

NLO scattering amplitudes are provided by fully automated numerical tools, such as OpenLoops, for a very wide range of processes. In order to match the numerical precision of current and future collider experiments, the higher precision of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-18 Stefano Pozzorini , Natalie Schär , Max F. Zoller

We present completely general next-to-leading order predictions for squark and gluino production at the LHC, based on the fully automated MadGolem tool. Without any assumptions on the mass spectrum we predict production rates and examine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-30 Dorival Goncalves , David Lopez-Val , Kentarou Mawatari , Tilman Plehn , Ioan Wigmore

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

Renormalization is a well-known technique to get rid of ultraviolet (UV) singularities. When relying on Dimensional Regularization (DREG), these become manifest as $\epsilon$-poles, allowing to define counter-terms with useful recursive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-13 Jose Rios-Sanchez , German Sborlini

We have developed an efficient algorithm for the subtraction of infrared divergences that arise in the evaluation of QED corrections to the anomalous magnetic moment of lepton (g-2). By incorporating this new algorithm, we have extended the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Aoyama , M. Hayakawa , T. Kinoshita , M. Nio