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We compute the one-loop amplitude for a Higgs boson, a quark-antiquark pair and a pair of gluons of negative helicity, i.e. for the next-to-maximally helicity violating (NMHV) case, A(H, qbar-, q+, g-, g-). The calculation is performed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-17 Simon Badger , John M. Campbell , R. Keith Ellis , Ciaran Williams

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

We discuss an algorithm for the numerical evaluation of NLO multiparton processes. We focus hereby on the virtual part of the NLO calculation, i.e. on evaluating the one-loop integration numerically. We employ and extend the ideas of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-14 S. Becker , D. Goetz , C. Reuschle , C. Schwan , S. Weinzierl

We present a new method for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory. It extends the Generalized Unitarity method by constraining not only the integrand of the amplitude but also its full integrated form. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Piotr Bargiela

The state-of-the-art in current two-loop QCD amplitude calculations is at five-particle scattering. Computing two-loop six-particle processes requires knowledge of the corresponding one-loop amplitudes to higher orders in the dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Johannes M. Henn , Antonela Matijašić , Julian Miczajka

Recent progress in the computation of one-loop gluon amplitudes is reviewed. These methods were originally derived from superstring theory and are significantly more efficient than conventional Feynman rules. With these methods, explicit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Zvi Bern

We compute the two-loop massless QCD corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the production of two electroweak gauge bosons in the gluon fusion channel, $gg \to V_1 V_2$, keeping the virtuality of the vector bosons $V_1$ and $V_2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-14 Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

In this thesis, we present recent advances at the precision frontier of higher-order quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculations. We consider massless two-loop five-point amplitudes, with a particular focus on diphoton-plus-jet production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-14 Ryan Moodie

We derive the analytic expression of the two one-loop dipole contributions to the elastic 4-gluon amplitude in QCD. The first one corresponds to the double QCD pomeron exchange, the other to an order alpha^2 correction to one-pomeron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Navelet , R. Peschanski

We show how generalised unitarity cuts in D = 4 - 2 epsilon dimensions can be used to calculate efficiently complete one-loop scattering amplitudes in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This approach naturally generates the rational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Simon McNamara , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

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 present analytic expressions for the one-loop QCD helicity amplitudes contributing to top-quark pair production in association with a photon or a jet at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), evaluated through $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2)$ in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Souvik Bera , Colomba Brancaccio , Dhimiter Canko , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto

We compute the leading colour contributions to five-gluon scattering at two loops in massless QCD. The integrands of all independent helicity amplitudes are evaluated using d-dimensional generalised unitarity cuts and finite field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Tiziano Peraro

In this paper, we show how to calculate analytically the one-loop helicity amplitudes for the process $q\bar{q} rightarrow t\bar{t}$ induced by KK gluon, using the spinor-helicity formalism. A minimal set of Feynman rules which are uniquely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-15 Hua Xing Zhu , Chong Sheng Li , Liang Dai , Jun Gao , Jian Wang , C. -P. Yuan

We present first calculations of QCD matrix-elements in perturbation theory at finite Nc beyond 2 loops in the eikonal approximation for e+ e- annihilation processes. For the emission of n soft energy-ordered gluons we solve both the colour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-07 Kamel Khelifa-Kerfa , Yazid Delenda

We compute a complete set of independent leading-color two-loop five-parton amplitudes in QCD. These constitute a fundamental ingredient for the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to three-jet production at hadron colliders. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-09 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , B. Page , V. Sotnikov

In this talk we discuss a purely numerical approach to next-to-leading order calculations in QCD. We present a simple formula, which provides a local infrared subtraction term for the integrand of a one-loop amplitude. In addition we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 M. Assadsolimani , S. Becker , Ch. Reuschle , S. Weinzierl

We present the first results from BlackHat, an automated C++ program for calculating one-loop amplitudes. The program implements the unitarity method and on-shell recursion to construct amplitudes. As input to the calculation, it uses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. F. Berger , Z. Bern , L. J. Dixon , F. Febres Cordero , D. Forde , H. Ita , D. A. Kosower , D. Maitre

We present a much simpler analytic expression for the UV un-renormalized one-loop soft-gluon current which controls the infra-red behavior of one-loop QCD amplitudes with massive fermions when an external gluon becomes soft. The result is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-09 Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov

We compute the three-loop helicity amplitudes for $q\bar{q} \to gg$ and its crossed partonic channels, in massless QCD. Our analytical results provide a non-trivial check of the color quadrupole contribution to the infrared poles for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-04 Fabrizio Caola , Amlan Chakraborty , Giulio Gambuti , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi