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The recently developed on-shell bootstrap for computing one-loop amplitudes in non-supersymmetric theories such as QCD combines the unitarity method with loop-level on-shell recursion. For generic helicity configurations, the recursion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carola F. Berger , Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

We develop an algorithm of polynomial complexity for evaluating one-loop amplitudes with an arbitrary number of external particles. The algorithm is implemented in the Rocket program. Starting from particle vertices given by Feynman rules,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-05 W. T. Giele , G. Zanderighi

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

A method to define and calculate one-loop amplitudes with an off-shell space-like, or $k_T$-dependent, gluon is presented. It introduces a practical regularization to deal with the divergencies that appear due to linear denominators, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-01 A. van Hameren

We develop a unitarity method to compute one-loop amplitudes with massless propagators in d=4-2*epsilon dimensions. We compute double cuts of the loop amplitudes via a decomposition into a four-dimensional and a -2*epsilon-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Charalampos Anastasiou , Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Zoltan Kunszt , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

Recently a new recursion relation for tree-level gluon amplitudes in gauge theory has been discovered. We solve this recursion to obtain explicit formulas for the closed set of amplitudes with arbitrarily many positive and negative helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Radu Roiban , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We use unitarity techniques to compute the two-loop non-planar corrections to the Sudakov form factor and the four-point amplitude in ABJM theory. We start by reconstructing non-planar integrals from two-particle cuts in three dimensions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-09 Lorenzo Bianchi , Marco S. Bianchi

We combine the unitarity method with the six-dimensional helicity formalism of Cheung and O'Connell to construct loop-level scattering amplitudes. As a first example, we construct dimensionally regularized QCD one-loop four-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang , Harald Ita

We present a novel set of Feynman rules and generalised unitarity cut-conditions for computing one-loop amplitudes via d-dimensional integrand reduction algorithm. Our algorithm is suited for analytic as well as numerical result, because…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-25 W. J. Torres Bobadilla , A. R. Fazio , P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella

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 discuss recent progress in multi-loop integrand reduction methods. Motivated by the possibility of an automated construction of multi-loop amplitudes via generalized unitarity cuts we describe a procedure to obtain a general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

We present a completely numerical method of calculating one-loop amplitudes. Our approach is built upon two different existing methods: the contour deformation and the extrapolation methods. Taking the best features of each of them, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Goran Duplancic , Bruno Klajn

We present a calculation of the helicity amplitudes for the process $gg\to\gamma\gamma$ in three-loop massless QCD. We employ a recently proposed method to calculate scattering amplitudes in the 't Hooft-Veltman scheme that reduces the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-05 Piotr Bargiela , Fabrizio Caola , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

We analytically calculate one- and two-loop helicity amplitudes in massless QED, by adopting a four-dimensional tensor decomposition. We draw our attention to four-fermion and Compton scattering processes to higher orders in the dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-20 Thomas Dave , William J. Torres Bobadilla

We report on the advances in the calculation of the two-loop scattering amplitudes for five-particle processes with one off-shell leg. Focusing on the production of a Higgs boson in association with a bottom quark pair, we outline how the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Jakub Kryś

A general formalism for computing only the rational parts of oneloop QCD amplitudes is developed. Starting from the Feynman integral representation of the one-loop amplitude, we use tensor reduction and recursive relations to compute the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhi-Guang Xiao , Gang Yang , Chuan-Jie Zhu

We examine maximal unitarity in the nonplanar case and derive remarkably compact analytic expressions for coefficients of master integrals with two-loop crossed box topology in massless four-point amplitudes in any gauge theory, thereby…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-18 Mads Sogaard

We compare four different methods for the numerical computation of the pure gluonic amplitudes in the Born approximation. We are in particular interested in the efficiency of the various methods as the number n of the external particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael Dinsdale , Marko Ternick , Stefan Weinzierl

We describe an application of generalised unitarity to the computation of one-loop amplitudes with massive external fermions. We present analytic results for the cut-constructible parts of the leading colour contributions to the all-plus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. D. Badger

We propose a new ``universal expansion" for one-loop amplitudes with arbitrary number of gluons in $D$ dimensions, which holds for general gauge theories with gluons/fermions/scalars in the loop, including pure and supersymmetric Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Qu Cao , Jin Dong , Song He , Fan Zhu