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We show that the evaluation of scattering amplitudes can be formulated as a problem of multivariate polynomial division, with the components of the integration-momenta as indeterminates. We present a recurrence relation which, independently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Edoardo Mirabella , Giovanni Ossola , Tiziano Peraro

We present methods for the numerical evaluation of the master integrals that appear in the calculation of scattering amplitudes at higher order in perturbative quantum field theory. We follow the general strategy of solving first-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-06 Renato Maria Prisco , Jonathan Ronca , Francesco Tramontano

We review current efficient techniques for the construction of multi-leg and multi-loop on-shell scattering amplitudes in supersymmetric gauge theories. Examples in the maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Roiban

I discuss the recent advances in the computation of two-loop scattering amplitudes for five-particle processes. The latter are fundamental ingredients to obtain predictions at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD for many…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-09 Simone Zoia

We present the integrand decomposition of multiloop scattering amplitudes in parallel and orthogonal space-time dimensions, $d=d_\parallel+d_\perp$, being $d_\parallel$ the dimension of the parallel space spanned by the legs of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-21 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Tiziano Peraro , Amedeo Primo

We employ a scalar model to exemplify the use of contour deformations when solving Lorentz-invariant integral equations for scattering amplitudes. In particular, we calculate the onshell 2 -> 2 scattering amplitude for the scalar system.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-06 Gernot Eichmann , Pedro Duarte , M. T. Peña , Alfred Stadler

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 present an overview of techniques developed in recent years for the efficient calculation of one-loop multiparton amplitudes, in particular those relying on unitarity and collinear factorization.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Zvi Bern , Lance Dixon , David C. Dunbar , David A. Kosower

We present the first full analytic evaluation of the scattering amplitude for the process $q {\bar q} \to Q {\bar Q}$ up-to two loops in Quantum Chromodynamics, for a massless $(q)$ and a massive $(Q)$ quark flavour. The interference terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 Manoj K. Mandal , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Jonathan Ronca , William J. Torres Bobadilla

We present the first public version of Caravel, a C++17 framework for the computation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory, based on the numerical unitarity method. Caravel is composed of modules for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 S. Abreu , J. Dormans , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Kraus , B. Page , E. Pascual , M. S. Ruf , V. Sotnikov

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

We present a semi-numerical algorithm to calculate one-loop virtual corrections to scattering amplitudes. The divergences of the loop amplitudes are regulated using dimensional regularization. We treat in detail the case of amplitudes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , G. Zanderighi

We compute all master integrals for massless three-loop four-particle scattering amplitudes required for processes like di-jet or di-photon production at the LHC. We present our result in terms of a Laurent expansion of the integrals in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Johannes Henn , Bernhard Mistlberger , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Pascal Wasser

We reduce all the most complicated Feynman integrals in two-loop five-light-parton scattering amplitudes to basic master integrals, while other integrals can be reduced even easier. Our results are expressed as systems of linear relations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-11 Xin Guan , Xiao Liu , Yan-Qing Ma

We review the recent developments of the loop-tree duality method, focussing our discussion on analysing the singular behaviour of the loop integrand of the dual representation of one-loop integrals and scattering amplitudes. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-23 Sebastian Buchta , Grigorios Chachamis , Ioannis Malamos , Isabella Bierenbaum , Petros Draggiotis , German Rodrigo

Building on the open-loop algorithm we introduce a new method for the automated construction of one-loop amplitudes and their reduction to scalar integrals. The key idea is that the factorisation of one-loop integrands in a product of loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Federico Buccioni , Stefano Pozzorini , Max Zoller

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

We describe the unitarity approach for the numerical computation of two-loop integral coefficients of scattering amplitudes. It is well known that the leading propagator singularities of an amplitude's integrand are related to products of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Jaquier , B. Page

Recently, an explicit, recursive formula for the all-loop integrand of planar scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM has been described, generalizing the BCFW formula for tree amplitudes, and making manifest the Yangian symmetry of the theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Jaroslav Trnka

Feynman amplitudes at higher orders in perturbation theory generically have complex singular structures. Notwithstanding the emergence of many powerful new methods, the presence of infrared divergences poses significant challenges for their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Charalampos Anastasiou , George Sterman