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We present a method for the computation of hepta-cuts of two loop scattering amplitudes. Four dimensional unitarity cuts are used to factorise the integrand onto the product of six tree-level amplitudes evaluated at complex momentum values.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-18 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

We present work on two-loop amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theory with all gluons of identical helicity. We show how to obtain their rational terms -- the hardest parts to compute -- via well-understood one-loop unitarity techniques.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-15 David A. Kosower , Sebastian Pögel

We present the one-loop helicity amplitudes with five external gluons. The computation employs string-based methods, new techniques for performing tensor integrals, and improvements in the spinor helicity method.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

We present a semi-numerical method to compute one-loop corrections to multi-leg processes. We apply the method to the study of Higgs plus four parton and six gluon amplitudes.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Zanderighi

We present the first numerical results for the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of four partons and a W-boson in QCD. We use a finite field sampling method to reduce directly from Feynman diagrams to the coefficients of a set…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-01 Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Tiziano Peraro

We show, for previously uncalculated examples containing a uniform mass in the loop, that it is possible to obtain complete massive one-loop gauge theory amplitudes solely from unitarity and known ultraviolet or infrared mass singularities.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Bern , A. G. Morgan

The computation of two-loop amplitudes for the production of multiple Higgs and electroweak gauge bosons via gluon fusion with exact dependence on quark masses relies primarily on numerical methods. We propose a framework that enables their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-13 Charalampos Anastasiou , Julia Karlen , George Sterman , Aniruddha Venkata

We show how the holomorphic anomaly found in hep-th/0409245 can be used to efficiently compute certain classes of unitarity cuts of one-loop N=4 amplitudes of gluons. These classes include all cuts of n-gluon one-loop MHV amplitudes and of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Freddy Cachazo

We compute the one-loop QCD amplitude for the process gg-->Q\bar{Q} in dimensional regularization through order \epsilon^2 in the dimensional regulator and for arbitrary quark mass values. This result is an ingredient of the NNLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-30 Charalampos Anastasiou , S. Mert Aybat

We present the analytic form of the two-loop four-graviton scattering amplitudes in Einstein gravity. To remove ultraviolet divergences we include counterterms quadratic and cubic in the Riemann curvature tensor. The two-loop numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Jaquier , B. Page , M. S. Ruf , V. Sotnikov

We present an overview of techniques developed in recent years for the efficient calculation of one-loop multiparton amplitudes, in particular those relying on unitarity and collinear factorization.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Zvi Bern , Lance Dixon , David C. Dunbar , David A. Kosower

We report on a technique for evaluating finite unitarity cut for one-loop amplitudes in gauge theories, and discuss its application to the cut-constructible part of six-gluon amplitude in QCD.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Pierpaolo Mastrolia

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 seven-gluon two-loop full-color Yang-Mills amplitude is presented in a compact analytic form where we use the methods of four-dimensional unitarity cuts to obtain the polylogarithmic pieces and augmented recursion to obtain the rational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Adam R. Dalgleish , David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins , Joseph M. W. Strong

We establish an efficient polynomial-complexity algorithm for one-loop calculations, based on generalized $D$-dimensional unitarity. It allows automated computations of both cut-constructible {\it and} rational parts of one-loop scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 Walter T. Giele , Zoltan Kunszt , Kirill Melnikov

We discuss recent progress towards extending the Helac framework to the calculation of two-loop amplitudes. A general algorithm for the automated computation of two-loop integrands is described. The algorithm covers all the steps of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-19 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Dhimiter Canko , Costas Papadopoulos

This article reviews on-shell methods for analytic computation of loop amplitudes, emphasizing techniques based on unitarity cuts. Unitarity techniques are formulated generally but have been especially useful for calculating one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Ruth Britto

We present a compact analytic expression for the leading colour two-loop five-gluon amplitude in Yang-Mills theory with a single negative helicity and four positive helicities. The analytic result is reconstructed from numerical evaluations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Tiziano Peraro

We present analytic forms of three-loop four-gluon planar amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theory in this letter. Gauge invariant bases and a set of proper master integrals are chosen such that the amplitudes are explicitly invariant under…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-15 Qingjun Jin , Hui Luo

We present a precise and efficient computation of the two-loop amplitudes entering the Higgs boson pair production process via gluon fusion. Our approach is based on the small-Higgs-mass expansion while keeping the full dependence on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-29 Guoxing Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Xiaofeng Xu , Yongqi Xu , Li Lin Yang