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We review the construction of locally finite two-loop amplitude integrands for photoproduction via quark annihilation, presented in arXiv:2509.07805. Building on established techniques for off-shell colorless production, we extend this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Charalampos Anastasiou , Julia Karlen , Roshni Sahoo , George Sterman , Matilde Vicini

We explore topologically massive gauge theories using the covariant colour kinematics duality recently introduced by Cheung and Mangan. We show that the massive bi-adjoint scalar field is simply related to topologically massive gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-06 Nathan Moynihan

In this paper, we generalize the unitarity method to two-loop diagrams and use it to discuss the integral bases of reduction. To test out method, we focus on the four-point double-box diagram as well as its related daughter diagrams, i.e.,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Bo Feng , Jun Zhen , Rijun Huang , Kang Zhou

We introduce a novel construction of a contour deformation within the framework of Loop-Tree Duality for the numerical computation of loop integrals featuring threshold singularities in momentum space. The functional form of our contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-24 Zeno Capatti , Valentin Hirschi , Dario Kermanschah , Andrea Pelloni , Ben Ruijl

Generalized-unitarity calculations of two-loop amplitudes are performed by expanding the amplitude in a basis of master integrals and then determining the coefficients by taking a number of generalized cuts. In this paper, we present a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-08 Simon Caron-Huot , Kasper J. Larsen

We compute the coefficient of the potential three-loop divergence in pure N=4 supergravity and show that it vanishes, contrary to expectations from symmetry arguments. The recently uncovered duality between color and kinematics is used to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Zvi Bern , Scott Davies , Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang

We show that, by viewing a 4D effective-field theory as the infrared (IR) limit of the compactified version in 5D, we can compute two-loop anomalous dimensions without gauge-breaking counter-terms, IR re-arrangement or geometric methods.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-04 Mikael Chala , Javier López Miras

We consider the classical double copy, that relates solutions of biadjoint scalar, gauge and gravity theories. Using a recently developed twistor expression of this idea, we use well-established techniques to show that the multipole moments…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-09 Erick Chacón , Andres Luna , Chris D. White

The double copy formalism provides an intriguing connection between gauge theories and gravity. It was first demonstrated in the perturbative context of scattering amplitudes but recently the formalism has been applied to exact classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Rashid Alawadhi , David S. Berman , Bill Spence , David Peinador Veiga

We construct all supergravity theories that can be obtained through factorized orbifold projections of N=8 supergravity, exposing their double-copy structure, and calculate their one-loop four-point scattering amplitudes. We observe a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Marco Chiodaroli , Murat Gunaydin , Radu Roiban

Renormalization group evolution of QCD composite light-cone operators, built from two and more quark and gluon fields, is responsible for the logarithmic scaling violations in diverse physical observables. We analyze spectra of anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 A. V. Belitsky , A. S. Gorsky , G. P. Korchemsky

We apply the classical double copy to the calculation of self-energy of composite systems with multipolar coupling to gravitational field, obtaining next-to-leading order results in the gravitational coupling $G_N$ by generalizing color to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-14 Gabriel Luz Almeida , Stefano Foffa , Riccardo Sturani

In this note, we study color-kinematics duality in generic spacetimes. We work with a contact representation for on shell correlators. The position-space integrand is encoded by enumerated differential operators. This setup generalizes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Allic Sivaramakrishnan

Conformal supergravity amplitudes are obtained from the double-copy construction using gauge-theory amplitudes, and compared to direct calculations starting from conformal supergravity Lagrangians. We consider several different theories:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Henrik Johansson , Gustav Mogull , Fei Teng

We revisit the familiar construction of one-loop scattering amplitudes via generalized unitarity in light of the recently understood properties of loop integrands prior to their integration. We show how in any four-dimensional quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-21 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Simon Caron-Huot , Jaroslav Trnka

A formalism for the numerical integration of one- and two-loop integrals is presented. It is based on subtraction terms which remove the soft, collinear and some of the ultraviolet divergences from the integrand. The numerical integral is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-08 A. Freitas

We describe a simple algebraic approach to several spectral duality results for integrable systems and illustrate the method for two types of examples: The Bertola-Eynard-Harnad spectral duality of the two-matrix model as well as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Martin Luu

Recently, a perturbative duality between gauge and gravity theories (the double copy) has been discovered, that is believed to hold to all loop orders. In this paper, we examine the relationship between classical solutions of non-Abelian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Ricardo Monteiro , Donal O'Connell , Chris D. White

BCJ relation reveals a dual between color structures and kinematic structure and can be used to reduce the number of independent color-ordered amplitudes at tree level. Refer to the loop-level in Yang-Mills theory, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Yi-Jian Du , Hui Luo

Field theories with kinematic Lie algebras, such as field theories featuring colour-kinematics duality, possess an underlying algebraic structure known as BV${}^{\color{gray} \blacksquare}$-algebra. If, additionally, matter fields are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-25 Leron Borsten , Branislav Jurco , Hyungrok Kim , Tommaso Macrelli , Christian Saemann , Martin Wolf