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We present the first numerical computation of two-loop amplitudes based on the unitarity method. As a proof of principle, we compute the four-gluon process. We discuss the new method, analyze its numerical properties and apply it to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-11 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Jaquier , B. Page , M. Zeng

We present the results for the complete next-to-leading order electroweak corrections to $pp \to HH$ at the Large Hadron Collider, focusing on the dominant gluon-gluon fusion process. While the corrections at the total cross-section level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-12 Huan-Yu Bi , Li-Hong Huang , Rui-Jun Huang , Yan-Qing Ma , Huai-Min Yu

We compute the two-loop corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the coupling of a massive vector boson to a massless quark-antiquark pair and a gluon, accounting for vector and axial-vector couplings of the vector boson and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-19 Thomas Gehrmann , Tiziano Peraro , Lorenzo Tancredi

We calculate one loop scattering amplitudes for arbitrary number of positive helicity on-shell gluons and one off-shell gluon treated within the quasi-multi Regge kinematics. The result is fully gauge invariant and possesses the correct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-05 Etienne Blanco , Andreas van Hameren , Piotr Kotko , Krzysztof Kutak

Vector-boson pair production is an important background for Higgs boson and new physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider LHC. We have calculated the loop-induced gluon-fusion process gg -> WW -> leptons, allowing for arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Binoth , M. Ciccolini , N. Kauer , M. Krämer

In high energy hadronic collisions a scalar or pseudoscalar Higgs boson, Phi=H,A, can be efficiently produced via gluon fusion, which is mediated by heavy quark loops. We here consider double real emission corrections to Phi=A production,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Francisco Campanario , Michael Kubocz , Dieter Zeppenfeld

In this talk, we discuss top-quark contributions to $ZZ$ production through gluon fusion at two loops. We use syzygies and modular arithmetic to compute the reductions to master integrals. In order to numerically evaluate the amplitude, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-19 Bakul Agarwal , Andreas von Manteuffel

Pair production of W bosons constitutes an important background to Higgs boson and new physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider LHC. We have calculated the loop-induced gluon-fusion process gg -> W*W* -> leptons, including intermediate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-16 T. Binoth , M. Ciccolini , N. Kauer , M. Krämer

We calculate the order O(alpha^2 alpha_s^3) interference effect between the gluon fusion and weak boson fusion processes allowed at the one-loop level in Higgs boson plus 2 jet production at the LHC. The corresponding one-loop amplitudes,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. R. Andersen , T. Binoth , G. Heinrich , J. M. Smillie

In addressing the B --> eta' K puzzle, there has been a considerable hope in the literature to resolve it by the QCD anomaly contribution to the b --> s eta' amplitude. This contribution corresponds to the electroweak b --> s g* g*…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. O. Eeg , K. Kumericki , I. Picek

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of massless quarks and massless gauge bosons in QCD. We use projector techniques to compute the coefficients of the general tensor describing the two-quark two-boson amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 E. W. N. Glover , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

We compute the one-loop QCD amplitudes for the processes HqqQQ and Hqqgg, the latter restricted to the case of opposite-helicity gluons. Analytic expressions are presented for the color- and helicity-decomposed amplitudes. The coupling of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-11 Lance J. Dixon , Yorgos Sofianatos

We compute the two-loop massless QCD corrections to the four-point amplitude $g+g \rightarrow H+H$ resulting from effective operator insertions that describe the interaction of a Higgs boson with gluons in the infinite top quark mass limit.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-30 Pulak Banerjee , Sophia Borowka , Prasanna K. Dhani , Thomas Gehrmann , V. Ravindran

We present a calculation of the NLO QCD corrections to the loop-induced production of a photon pair through gluon fusion, including massive top quarks at two loops. The two-loop virtual amplitudes are computed via projecting onto a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-13 Long Chen , Gudrun Heinrich , Stephan Jahn , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Johannes Schlenk , Hiroshi Yokoya

We present the two-loop leading colour QCD helicity amplitudes for the process $pp\to W(\to l\nu)\gamma+j$. We implement a complete reduction of the amplitudes, including the leptonic decay of the $W$-boson, using finite field arithmetic,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Simon Badger , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Jakub Kryś , Simone Zoia

We study the influence of two--loop radiative corrections of enhanced electroweak strength on Higgs production at the LHC. We consider Higgs production by the gluon fusion mechanism, with the subsequent decay of the Higgs boson into a pair…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Ghinculov , J. J. van der Bij

We present an explicit expression for a particular $n$-gluon two loop scattering partial amplitude. Specifically we present an analytic form for the single trace $N_c$ independent colour partial amplitude for the case where all external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-08 David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins , Joseph M. W. Strong

The amplitude of double Higgs boson production by the gluon fusion, $gg \to hh$, is known to be small due to cancellation between the graphs with the boson trilinear coupling and those with the coupling to the top quark. For this reason a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-05 Xin Li , M. B. Voloshin

We present the two-loop virtual amplitudes for heavy-quark pair production in light quark-antiquark annihilation and gluon fusion channels, including full spin and color dependence. We use expansions around kinematical limits and numerical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-18 L. Chen , M. Czakon , R. Poncelet

We present fully differential next-to-leading order results for Higgs production in association with a $Z$ boson in gluon fusion. Our two-loop virtual contributions are evaluated numerically using sector decomposition, including full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Long Chen , Joshua Davies , Gudrun Heinrich , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Go Mishima , Johannes Schlenk , Matthias Steinhauser