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We calculate bosonic open string one-loop massive scattering amplitudes for some low-lying string states. By using the periodicity relations of Jacobi theta functions, we explicitly prove an infinite number of one-loop type I stringy Ward…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Chuan-Tsung Chan , Jen-Chi Lee

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 recompute the functions describing the collinear factorization of one-loop amplitudes using the unitarity-based method. We present the results in a form suitable for use as an ingredient in two-loop calculations. We also present a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 David A. Kosower , Peter Uwer

Generalised unitarity techniques are used to calculate the coefficients of box and triangle integral functions of one-loop gluon scattering amplitudes in gauge theories with $N < 4$ supersymmetries. We show that the box coefficients in N=1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven J. Bidder , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins

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 discuss the structure of infrared singularities in on-shell QCD amplitudes at two-loop order. We present a general factorization formula that controls all the $\ep$-poles of the dimensionally regularized amplitudes. The dependence on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefano Catani

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 use on-shell recursion relations to determine the one-loop QCD scattering amplitudes with a massless external quark pair and an arbitrary number (n-2) of positive-helicity gluons. These amplitudes are the last of the unknown infrared-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

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 review techniques simplifying the analytic calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes with many external legs, for use in next-to-leading-order corrections to multi-jet processes. We explain how a supersymmetry-inspired organization works…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Dixon

We present advances in the development of the numerical unitarity method for the computation of multi-loop amplitudes in QCD. As an application, we show results for all the leading-color two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitudes. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-26 Samuel Abreu , Fernando Febres Cordero , Harald Ita , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

This article studies methods to obtain relations for scattering amplitudes at the loop level, with concrete examples at one loop. These methods originate in the analysis of large so-called Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten shifts of tree level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Rutger H. Boels , Reinke Sven Isermann

We study scalar one-loop amplitudes in massive $\phi^3$-theory within causal loop-tree duality. We derive a recurrence relation for the integrand of the amplitude. The integrand is by construction free of spurious singularities on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-07 Sascha Kromin , Niklas Schwanemann , Stefan Weinzierl

We find a direct map that determines moduli-space integrands for one-loop superstring amplitudes in terms of field-theory loop integrands in the BCJ form. The latter can be computed using efficient unitarity methods, so our map provides an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-05 Yvonne Geyer , Jiachen Guo , Ricardo Monteiro , Lecheng Ren

We discuss new techniques developed in recent years for performing one-loop calculations in QCD, and present an example of results from the process 0 -> V q q-bar g g. Talk presented at the 1996 Zeuthen Workshop on Elementary Particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

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 express one-loop closed string amplitudes as weighted sums over squares of open string one-loop subamplitudes. These findings generalize - subject to final complex structure modulus integration - the celebrated tree-level relationships…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-11 S. Stieberger

We discuss relations between closed and open string amplitudes at one-loop. While at tree-level these relations are known as Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) and/or double copy relations, here we investigate how such relations are manifested at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-03 S. Stieberger

We present an alternative reduction to master integrals for one-loop amplitudes using a unitarity cut method in arbitrary dimensions. We carry out the reduction in two steps. The first step is a pure four-dimensional cut-integration of tree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Charalampos Anastasiou , Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Zoltan Kunszt , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

The Loop-Tree Duality (LTD) is a novel perturbative method in QFT that establishes a relation between loop-level and tree-level amplitudes, which gives rise to the idea of treating them simultaneously in a common Monte Carlo. Initially…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-15 Sebastian Buchta