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Recently, a color decomposition using structure constants was introduced for purely gluonic tree amplitudes, in a compact form involving only the linearly independent subamplitudes. We give two proofs that this decomposition holds for an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Vittorio Del Duca , Lance Dixon , Fabio Maltoni

We compute two infinite series of tree-level amplitudes with a massive scalar pair and an arbitrary number of gluons. We provide results for amplitudes where all gluons have identical helicity, and amplitudes with one gluon of opposite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

This paper investigates how tree-level amplitudes with massless quarks, gluons and/or massless scalars transforming under a single copy of the gauge group can be expressed in the context of the scattering equations as a sum over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-04 Stefan Weinzierl

The fundamental BCJ-relation is a linear relation between primitive tree amplitudes with different cyclic orderings. The cyclic orderings differ by the insertion place of one gluon. The coefficients of the fundamental BCJ-relation are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-09 Leonardo de la Cruz , Alexander Kniss , Stefan Weinzierl

We derive general tree-level recursion relations for amplitudes which include massive propagating particles. As an illustration, we apply these recursion relations to scattering amplitudes of gluons coupled to massive scalars. We provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Badger , E. W. N. Glover , V. V. Khoze , P. Svrcek

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

It is well known that under the color-decomposition, one-loop amplitude of gluons contains partial amplitudes of single and double trace structures, and particularly all partial amplitudes of double trace structure can be expressed as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Bo Feng , Yin Jia , Rijun Huang

We present the one-loop QCD amplitudes for two external massless quarks and three external gluons ($\bar{q}qggg$). This completes the set of one-loop amplitudes needed for the next-to-leading-order corrections to three-jet production at…

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

We compute the three-loop corrections to the helicity amplitudes for $q\bar{q}\to Q\bar{Q}$ scattering in massless QCD. In the Lorentz decomposition of the scattering amplitude we avoid evanescent Lorentz structures and map the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-06 Fabrizio Caola , Amlan Chakraborty , Giulio Gambuti , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

The recently developed on-shell bootstrap for computing one-loop amplitudes in non-supersymmetric theories such as QCD combines the unitarity method with loop-level on-shell recursion. For generic helicity configurations, the recursion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carola F. Berger , Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

We compute in conventional dimensional regularisation the tree-level splitting amplitudes for a gluon parent which splits into four collinear partons. This is part of the universal infrared behaviour of the QCD scattering amplitudes at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Vittorio Del Duca , Claude Duhr , Rayan Haindl , Achilleas Lazopoulos , Martin Michel

We compute the complete one-loop corrections to the simplest class of QCD gluon amplitudes, those with two color-adjacent opposite-helicity external particles. We present results for an arbitrary number of external legs. The computation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

We present a new procedure using on-shell recursion to determine coefficients of integral functions appearing in one-loop scattering amplitudes of gauge theories, including QCD. With this procedure, coefficients of integrals, including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Zvi Bern , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , David C. Dunbar , Harald Ita

The possibility of treating colour in one-loop amplitude calculations alike the other quantum numbers is briefly discussed for semi-numerical algorithms based on generalized unitarity and parametric integration techniques. Numerical results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Jan Winter

We present new relations for scattering amplitudes of color ordered gluons, massive quarks and scalars minimally coupled to gravity. Tree-level amplitudes of arbitrary matter and gluon multiplicities involving one graviton are reduced to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Jan Plefka , Wadim Wormsbecher

We show that the chiral algebra bootstrap, which computes form factors of twistorial theories, can help determine two-loop amplitudes in massless QCD. We give an $n$-gluon result for a previously unknown partial amplitude of the two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-24 Anthony Morales

We present analytic results for the one-loop corrections of the helicity amplitudes of the QCD five-parton subprocesses involving four quarks and one gluon obtained with a standard Feynman diagram calculation using dimensional reduction.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Zoltan Kunszt , Adrian Signer , Zoltan Trocsanyi

We compute the one-loop QCD amplitudes for the decay of an off-shell vector boson with vector couplings into a quark-antiquark pair accompanied by two gluons keeping, for the first time, all orders in the number of colours. Together with…

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

We elaborate on the radiative behaviour of tree-level scattering amplitudes in the soft regime. We show that the sub-leading soft term in single-gluon emission of quark-gluon amplitudes in QCD is controlled by differential operators, whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Hui Luo , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , William J. Torres Bobadilla

We show that color-kinematics duality is present in tree-level amplitudes of quantum chromodynamics with massive flavored quarks. Starting with the color structure of QCD, we work out a new color decomposition for n-point tree amplitudes in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-29 Henrik Johansson , Alexander Ochirov