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The unitarity condition for scattering amplitudes in a non-anticommutative quantum field theory is investigated. The Cutkosky rules are shown to hold for Feynman diagrams in Euclidean momentum space and unitarity of amplitudes can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Moffat

I describe a method for determining the coefficients of scalar integrals for one-loop amplitudes in quantum field theory. The method is based upon generalized unitarity and the behavior of amplitudes when the free parameters of the cut…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-12 William B. Kilgore

A new method of calculation of amplitudes of different processes in quantum electrodynamics is proposed. The method does not use the Feynman technique of trace of product of matrices calculation. The method strongly simplifies calculation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Kostyantyn Karplyuk , Oleksandr Zhmudsky

Exploiting singularities in Feynman integrals to get information about scattering amplitudes has been particularly useful at one-loop in theories where no triangles or bubbles appear. At higher loops the integrals possess subtle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-04 Freddy Cachazo , David Skinner

This chapter introduces the foundational elements of scattering amplitudes. It is meant to be accessible to readers with only a basic understanding of quantum field theory. Topics covered include: the four-dimensional spinor-helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-10 Andreas Brandhuber , Jan Plefka , Gabriele Travaglini

Feynman amplitudes in perturbation theory form the basis for most predictions in particle collider experiments. The mathematical quantities which occur as amplitudes include values of the Riemann zeta function and relate to fundamental…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-01 Francis Brown

I discuss a formalism for computing quantum scattering amplitudes using a semiclassical expansion of a functional integral representation for the S-matrix. The classical background for the expansion is determined by solving the equations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. H. Hsu

This thesis is focused on the development of new mathematical methods for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in gauge theories. In this work we combine, for the first time, the unitarity-based construction for integrands, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-21 Ulrich Schubert

We show how to apply the BCFW recursion relation to Feynman loop integrals with the help of the Feynman-tree theorem. We deconstruct in this way all Feynman diagrams in terms of on-shell subamplitudes. Every cut originating from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 M. Maniatis , C. M. Reyes

Canonical Feynman integrals are of great interest in the study of scattering amplitudes at the multi-loop level. We propose to construct $d\log$-form integrals of the hypergeometric type, treat them as a representation of Feynman integrals,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Jiaqi Chen , Xuhang Jiang , Xiaofeng Xu , Li Lin Yang

We review different notions of cuts appearing throughout the literature on scattering amplitudes. Despite similar names, such as unitarity cuts or generalized cuts, they often represent distinct computations and distinct physics. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-09 Ruth Britto , Claude Duhr , Holmfridur S. Hannesdottir , Sebastian Mizera

We present and numerically implement a computational method to construct relativistic scattering amplitudes that obey analyticity, crossing, elastic and inelastic unitarity in three and four spacetime dimensions. The algorithm is based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-17 Piotr Tourkine , Alexander Zhiboedov

In these lectures we discuss some of the mathematical structures that appear when computing multi-loop Feynman integrals. We focus on a specific class of special functions, the so-called multiple polylogarithms, and discuss introduce their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-01 Claude Duhr

A central problem in quantum field theory is the computation of scattering amplitudes. However, traditional methods are impractical to calculate high order phenomenologically relevant observables. Building on a few decades of astonishing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Andrea Orta , Matteo Parisi

In this review, we discuss recent developments concerning efficient calculations of multi-loop multi-leg scattering amplitudes. Inspired by the remarkable properties of the Loop-Tree Duality (LTD), we explain how to reconstruct an integrand…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-30 German F. R. Sborlini

These lecture notes bridge a gap between introductory quantum field theory (QFT) courses and state-of-the-art research in scattering amplitudes. They cover the path from basic definitions of QFT to amplitudes relevant for processes in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-16 Simon Badger , Johannes Henn , Jan Plefka , Simone Zoia

We analyse the singular behaviour of one-loop integrals and scattering amplitudes in the framework of the loop--tree duality approach. We show that there is a partial cancellation of singularities at the loop integrand level among the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Sebastian Buchta , Grigorios Chachamis , Petros Draggiotis , Ioannis Malamos , German Rodrigo

The canonical forms associated to scattering amplitudes of planar Feynman diagrams are interpreted in terms of masses of projectives, defined as the modulus of their central charges, in the hearts of certain $t$-structures of derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-02 Severin Barmeier , Koushik Ray

One of the main challenges in obtaining predictions for collider experiments from perturbative quantum field theory, is the direct evaluation of the Feynman integrals it gives rise to. In this chapter, we review an alternative bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-27 Georgios Papathanasiou

We introduce a way to compute scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory including the effects of particle production and detection. Our amplitudes are manifestly causal, by which we mean that the source and detector are always linked by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-17 Robert Dickinson , Jeff Forshaw , Peter Millington , Brian Cox