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Recent progress in unitarity techniques for one-loop scattering amplitudes makes a numerical implementation of this method possible. We present a 4-dimensional unitarity method for calculating the cut-constructible part of amplitudes and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Z. Kunszt

We present a simplified variant of the integrand reduction algorithm for multiloop scattering amplitudes in $d = 4 - 2\epsilon$ dimensions, which exploits the decomposition of the integration momenta in parallel and orthogonal subspaces,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-19 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Tiziano Peraro , Amedeo Primo , William J. Torres Bobadilla

Calculation of amplitudes in perturbative quantum field theory involve large loop integrals. The complexity of those integrals, in combination with the large number of Feynman diagrams, make the calculations very difficult. Reduction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Ronald H. P. Kleiss , Ioannis Malamos , Costas G. Papadopoulos , Rob Verheyen

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

We present an optimization of the reduction algorithm of one-loop amplitudes in terms of master integrals. It is based on the exploitation of the polynomial structure of the integrand when evaluated at values of the loop-momentum fulfilling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Mastrolia , G. Ossola , C. G. Papadopoulos , R. Pittau

The numerical unitarity approach has been important for obtaining reliable QCD predictions for the LHC. Here I discuss the extension of the approach beyond the leading quantum corrections for computing multi-loop amplitudes. The numerical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-27 Harald Ita

The unitarity method for calculating one-loop amplitudes provides algorithms of polynomial complexity. This is primarily beneficial for the computation of multi-leg one loop amplitudes and it is therefore of great interest to develop a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-14 R. Keith Ellis , Walter T. Giele , Zoltan Kunszt

The calculation of scattering amplitudes at higher orders in perturbation theory has reached a high degree of maturity. However, their usage to produce physical predictions within Monte Carlo programs is often precluded by the slow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-24 Víctor Bresó , Gudrun Heinrich , Vitaly Magerya , Anton Olsson

We review the recent progress on the numerical implementation of the Loop-Tree Duality Method (LTDM) for the calculation of scattering amplitudes. A central point is the analysis of the singularities of the integrand. In the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-25 Sebastian Buchta , Grigorios Chachamis , Petros Draggiotis , Ioannis Malamos , German Rodrigo

In this talk, we review recent developments towards the calculation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes. In particular, we discuss how the colour-kinematics duality can provide new integral relations at one-loop level via the Loop-Tree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-10 William J. Torres Bobadilla

We suggest a new approach for the automatic and fully numerical evaluation of one-loop scattering amplitudes in perturbative quantum field theory. We use suitably formulated dispersion relations to perform the calculation as a convolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-09-29 M. Moretti , F. Piccinini , A. D. Polosa

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

We present a method for the computation of hepta-cuts of two loop scattering amplitudes. Four dimensional unitarity cuts are used to factorise the integrand onto the product of six tree-level amplitudes evaluated at complex momentum values.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-18 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

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

In this paper we discuss techniques, which lead to a significant improvement of the efficiency of the Monte Carlo integration, when one-loop QCD amplitudes are calculated numerically with the help of the subtraction method and contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Sebastian Becker , Christian Reuschle , Stefan Weinzierl

Splitting amplitudes govern the behavior of scattering amplitudes at the momenta of external legs become collinear. In this talk we outline the calculation of two-loop splitting amplitudes via the unitarity sewing method. This method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. J. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

We highlight the latest developments in computing higher-order scattering amplitudes with massive internal propagators. The contributing Feynman integrals often lead to special classes of functions, for example, functions associated with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-26 Ekta Chaubey

Multi-loop scattering amplitudes constitute a serious bottleneck in current high-energy physics computations. Obtaining new integrand level representations with smooth behaviour is crucial for solving this issue, and surpassing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-17 German F. R. Sborlini

We review techniques for more efficient computation of perturbative scattering amplitudes in gauge theory, in particular tree and one-loop multi-parton amplitudes in QCD. We emphasize the advantages of (1) using color and helicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 L. Dixon

We propose an alternative approach based on series representation to directly reduce multi-loop multi-scale scattering amplitude into set of freely chosen master integrals. And this approach avoid complicated calculations of inverse matrix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-06 Yefan Wang , Zhao Li , Najam ul Basat