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We present a new method for the numerical evaluation of loop integrals which is based on the Feynman Tree Theorem. The loop integrals are replaced by phase-space integration over fictitious extra on-shell particles. This integration can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-18 Wolfgang Kilian , Tobias Kleinschmidt

We discuss an algorithm for the numerical evaluation of NLO multiparton processes. We focus hereby on the virtual part of the NLO calculation, i.e. on evaluating the one-loop integration numerically. We employ and extend the ideas of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-09-14 S. Becker , D. Goetz , C. Reuschle , C. Schwan , S. Weinzierl

Recent progress in unitarity techniques for one-loop scattering amplitudes makes a numerical implementation of this method possible. We present a 4-dimensional unitarity method for calculating the cut-constructible part of amplitudes and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Z. Kunszt

Multi-loop scattering amplitudes constitute a serious bottleneck in current high-energy physics computations. Obtaining new integrand level representations with smooth behaviour is crucial for solving this issue, and surpassing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-17 German F. R. Sborlini

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

In this talk, we review the basis of the loop-tree duality theorem, which allows to rewrite loop scattering amplitudes in terms of tree-level like objects. Since the loop measure is converted into a phase-space one, both virtual and real…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-16 German F. R. Sborlini , Felix Driencourt-Mangin , Roger Hernandez-Pinto , German Rodrigo

In the past years, we have been developing a novel technique, called Four-Dimensional Unsubtraction (FDU) which aims to obtain purely four-dimensional representations of the matrix elements contributing to physical observables. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-05 German F. R. Sborlini

We report on a new method for the numerical evaluation of loop integrals, based on the Feynman Tree Theorem. The loop integrals are replaced by phase-space integration over fictitious extra on-shell particles. This integration can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-08 Wolfgang Kilian , Tobias Kleinschmidt

Understanding the cancellation of ultraviolet and infrared singularities in perturbative quantum field theory is of central importance for the development and automation of various theoretical tools that make accurate predictions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-11 David F. Rentería-Estrada

The calculation of hard scattering amplitudes up to NLO is automated in numerical tools, such as OpenLoops. The LHC and future experiments, however, demand high-precision predictions at NNLO and beyond for a wide range of particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-20 Natalie Schär , Max F. Zoller

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

The abundance of infrared singularities in gauge theories due to unresolved emission of massless particles (soft and collinear) represents the main difficulty in perturbative calculations. They are typically regularized in dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Roger J. Hernandez-Pinto , German F. R. Sborlini , German Rodrigo

We propose multiloop vacuum amplitudes as the optimal building blocks for efficiently assembling theoretical predictions at high-energy colliders. This hypothesis is strongly supported by the manifestly causal properties of the loop-tree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-06 Selomit Ramírez-Uribe , Prasanna K. Dhani , German F. R. Sborlini , Germán Rodrigo

Numerical tools, such as OpenLoops, provide NLO scattering amplitudes for a very wide range of hard scattering amplitudes in a fully automated way. In order to match the numerical precision of current and future experiments, however, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-18 Stefano Pozzorini , Natalie Schär , Max F. Zoller

The loop-tree duality (LTD) has become a novelty alternative to bootstrap the numerical evaluation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes. It has indeed been found that Feynman integrands, after the application of LTD, display a representation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-29 William J. Torres Bobadilla

In this paper we discuss techniques, which lead to a significant improvement of the efficiency of the Monte Carlo integration, when one-loop QCD amplitudes are calculated numerically with the help of the subtraction method and contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Sebastian Becker , Christian Reuschle , Stefan Weinzierl

In this talk, we review recent developments towards the calculation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes. In particular, we discuss how the colour-kinematics duality can provide new integral relations at one-loop level via the Loop-Tree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-10 William J. Torres Bobadilla

We present an overview of the analysis of the multiloop topologies that appear for the first time at four loops and the assembly of them in a general expression, the N$^4$MLT universal topology. Based on the fact that the Loop-Tree Duality…

NLO scattering amplitudes are provided by fully automated numerical tools, such as OpenLoops, for a very wide range of processes. In order to match the numerical precision of current and future collider experiments, the higher precision of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-18 Stefano Pozzorini , Natalie Schär , Max F. Zoller

We present a new formulation of the loop-tree duality theorem for higher loop diagrams valid both for massless and massive cases. $l$-loop integrals are expressed as weighted sum of trees obtained from cutting $l$ internal propagators of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-22 Robert Runkel , Zoltán Szőr , Juan Pablo Vesga , Stefan Weinzierl