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The structure of scattering amplitudes in supergravity theories continues to be of interest. Recently, the amplitude for $2\rightarrow 2$ scattering in ${\cal N}=8$ supergravity was presented at three-loop order for the first time. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-18 Paolo Di Vecchia , Andrés Luna , Stephen G. Naculich , Rodolfo Russo , Gabriele Veneziano , Chris D. White

We extend the generalized D-dimensional unitarity method for numerical evaluation of one-loop amplitudes by incorporating massive particles. The issues related to extending the spinor algebra to higher dimensions, treatment of external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Z. Kunszt , K. Melnikov

A closed formula is obtained for the infrared singularities of dimensionally regularized, massless gauge-theory scattering amplitudes with an arbitrary number of legs and loops. It follows from an all-order conjecture for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-23 Thomas Becher , Matthias Neubert

Using the integrability conditions that we recently obtained in QCD$_2$ with massless fermions, we arrive at a sufficient number of conservation laws to be able to fix the scattering amplitudes involving a local version of the Wilson loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Abdalla , M. C. B. Abdalla

Loop amplitudes are conveniently expressed in terms of master integrals whose coefficients carry the process dependent information. Similarly before integration, the loop integrands may be expressed as a linear combination of propagator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 Harald Ita

Over the past couple of years we have had significant progress in determining long-distance singularities in gauge-theory scattering amplitudes of massless particles beyond the planar limit. Upon considering all kinematic invariants much…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-11 Einan Gardi

Using a careful choice of infrared (IR) subtraction scheme, we demonstrate the cancellation of all terms with transcendental weights 0,1,2 from the finite part of the full-color two-loop four-gluon $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric QCD…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Gregor Kälin , Gustav Mogull , Alexander Ochirov , Bram Verbeek

We recently presented a new method for the evaluation of one-loop amplitude of arbitrary scattering processes, in which the reduction to scalar integrals is performed at the integrand level. In this talk, we review the main features of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-09-17 Giovanni Ossola

In this review, we discuss recent developments concerning efficient calculations of multi-loop multi-leg scattering amplitudes. Inspired by the remarkable properties of the Loop-Tree Duality (LTD), we explain how to reconstruct an integrand…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-30 German F. R. Sborlini

We discuss the structure of infrared and ultraviolet singularities in on-shell QCD and supersymmetric QCD amplitudes at one-loop order. Previous results, valid for massless partons, are extended to the case of massive partons. Using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Stefano Catani , Stefan Dittmaier , Zoltan Trocsanyi

We present a semi-analytic method for the integrand reduction of one-loop amplitudes, based on the systematic application of the Laurent expansions to the integrand-decomposition. In the asymptotic limit, the coefficients of the master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Edoardo Mirabella , Tiziano Peraro

Feynman amplitudes at higher orders in perturbation theory generically have complex singular structures. Notwithstanding the emergence of many powerful new methods, the presence of infrared divergences poses significant challenges for their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Charalampos Anastasiou , George Sterman

We compute the planar part of the two-loop five gluon amplitude with all helicities positive. To perform the calculation we develop a D-dimensional generalized unitarity procedure allowing us to reconstruct the amplitude by cutting into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-21 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

We present an analytical calculation of the two-loop QCD corrections to the electromagnetic form factor of heavy quarks. The two-loop contributions to the form factor are reduced to linear combinations of master integrals, which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-29 J. Gluza , A. Mitov , S. Moch , T. Riemann

We establish a systematic way to calculate multiloop amplitudes of infrared safe massless models with Implicit Regularization (IR), with a direct cancelation of the fictitious mass introduced by the procedure. The ultraviolet content of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 E. W. Dias , A. P. Baeta Scarpelli , L. C. T. Brito , H. G. Fargnoli

We present novel techniques for the computation of three-loop four-parton scattering amplitudes in full color, non-planar gauge theories. We elaborate on how the analytic results for these amplitudes can be used to confirm the conjectured…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-18 Amlan Chakraborty , Giulio Gambuti

We demonstrate that loop integrands of (super-)gravity scattering amplitudes possess surprising properties in the ultraviolet (UV) region. In particular, we study the scaling of multi-particle unitarity cuts for asymptotically large momenta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 Alex Edison , Enrico Herrmann , Julio Parra-Martinez , Jaroslav Trnka

We link the FDR treatment of ultraviolet (UV) divergences to dimensional regularization up to two loops in QCD. This allows us to derive the one-loop and two-loop coupling constant and quark mass shifts necessary to translate infrared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-01 Ben Page , Roberto Pittau

Scattering amplitudes at loop level can be expressed in terms of Feynman integrals. The latter satisfy partial differential equations in the kinematical variables. We argue that a good choice of basis for (multi-)loop integrals can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-26 Johannes M. Henn

We give an explicit recursive formula for the all L-loop integrand for scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM in the planar limit, manifesting the full Yangian symmetry of the theory. This generalizes the BCFW recursion relation for tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Simon Caron-Huot , Jaroslav Trnka