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We compute the one-loop QCD amplitude for the process gg-->Q\bar{Q} in dimensional regularization through order \epsilon^2 in the dimensional regulator and for arbitrary quark mass values. This result is an ingredient of the NNLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-30 Charalampos Anastasiou , S. Mert Aybat

We present an algorithm for the numerical calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes. The algorithm consists of subtraction terms, approximating the soft, collinear and ultraviolet divergences of one-loop amplitudes and a method to deform the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-09 Sebastian Becker , Christian Reuschle , Stefan Weinzierl

We present the leading-color two-loop QCD corrections for Higgs-boson production in association with two jets through gluon fusion in the heavy-top effective theory. We provide analytic expressions for the finite remainders of the helicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Viktor Kuschke , Michael Ruf , Vasily Sotnikov

We compute the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the $1 \to 2$ splitting amplitudes in different dimensional regularization (DREG) schemes. Besides recovering previously known results, we explore new DREG schemes and analyze…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-15 German F. R. Sborlini , Daniel de Florian , German Rodrigo

We argue that the evolution of coloured partons into colour-singlet hadrons has approximate factorization into an extended parton-shower phase and a colour-singlet resonance--pole phase. The amplitude for the conversion of colour connected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Odagiri

$s$-channel discontinuity of quark-quark scattering amplitude with gluon quantum numbers in the $t$ channel and negative signature is calculated in the Regge kinematical region in the two-loop approximation. Using this discontinuity and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 V. S. Fadin , R. Fiore , A. Quartarolo

The four-loop QCD corrections to the electroweak $\rho$-parameter arising from top and bottom quark loops are computed. Specifically we evaluate the missing ``non-singlet'' piece. Using algebraic methods the amplitude is reduced to a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. G. Chetyrkin , M. Faisst , J. H. Kühn , P. Maierhoefer , C. Sturm

Single inclusive hadron production at forward rapidity in high energy p+A collisions is an important probe of the high gluon density regime of QCD and the associated small-$x$ formalism. We revisit an earlier one-loop calculation to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-13 Zhong-Bo Kang , Ivan Vitev , Hongxi Xing

In this talk we discuss an algorithm for the numerical calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes and present results at next-to-leading order for jet observables in electron-positron annihilation calculated with the above-mentioned method. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-16 S. Becker , D. Goetz , C. Reuschle , C. Schwan , S. Weinzierl

We present recent advancements in the computation of three-loop four-particle helicity amplitudes in full-color massless QCD. In this contribution, we focus on the $gg \to \gamma\gamma$ process. We show how to obtain compact analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Piotr Bargiela

By taking the high-energy limit of the two-loop and the three-loop four-point amplitudes in the maximally supersymmetric N=4 Yang-Mill theory (MSYM), we test the validity of the loop expansion of the high-energy amplitude, beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 V. Del Duca , E. W. N. Glover

We detail the calculation of two-loop all-plus helicity amplitudes for pure Yang-Mills theory. The four dimensional unitarity methods and augmented recursion techniques we have developed, together with a knowledge of the singular structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 David C. Dunbar , John H. Godwin , Guy R. Jehu , Warren B. Perkins

We report on the complete three-loop corrections to the Higgs-gluon form factor in QCD. While previous calculations are based on QCD with a single heavy quark of arbitrary mass, we extend the study to QCD involving two different massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-28 Marco Niggetiedt , Johann Usovitsch

In a framework for nonperturbative QCD calculation of high energy processes, the amplitudes for photo- and electroproduction of vector mesons are written as integrals of the overlap product of photon and vector meson wave functions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 E. Ferreira , V. L. Baltar

We demonstrate the QCD factorization for inclusive hadron production in $pA$ collisions in the saturation formalism at one-loop order, with explicit calculation of both real and virtual gluon radiation diagrams. The collinear divergences…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Giovanni A. Chirilli , Bo-Wen Xiao , Feng Yuan

We compute all $2\to5$ gluon scattering amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory in the multi-Regge limit that is sensitive to the non-trivial ("long") Regge cut. We provide the amplitudes through four loops and to all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Lance J. Dixon , Yu-Ting Liu , Julian Miczajka

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 construct a factorization theorem that allows to systematically include QCD corrections to the contribution of the electromagnetic dipole operator in the effective weak Hamiltonian to the $\bar B_s \to \mu^+\mu^-$ decay amplitude. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-08 Thorsten Feldmann , Nico Gubernari , Tobias Huber , Nicolas Seitz

We investigate the breakdown of collinear factorization for non-inclusive observables in hadron-hadron collisions. For pure QCD processes, factorization is violated at the three-loop level and it has a structure identical to that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Jeffrey R. Forshaw , Michael H. Seymour , Andrzej Siodmok

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