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We discuss the structure of infrared singularities in on-shell QCD amplitudes with massive partons and present a general factorization formula in the limit of small parton masses. The factorization formula gives rise to an all-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 A. Mitov , S. Moch

Exploiting singularities in Feynman integrals to get information about scattering amplitudes has been particularly useful at one-loop in theories where no triangles or bubbles appear. At higher loops the integrals possess subtle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-04 Freddy Cachazo , David Skinner

We review the current state-of-the-art in integrand level reduction for five-point scattering amplitudes at two loops in QCD. We present some benchmark results for the evaluation of the leading colour two-loop five-gluon amplitudes in the…

We present the two-loop virtual QCD corrections to the scattering of massless identical quarks, q qbar to q qbar, in conventional dimensional regularisation and using the MSbar scheme. The structure of the infrared divergences agrees with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Anastasiou , E. W. N. Glover , C. Oleari , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

In the framework of a toy model which possesses the main features of QCD in the high energy limit, we conduct a numerical study of scattering amplitudes constructed from parton splittings and projectile-target multiple interactions, in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Munier , F. Schwennsen

We present the integrand reduction via multivariate polynomial division as a natural technique to encode the unitarity conditions of Feynman amplitudes. We derive a recursive formula for the integrand reduction, valid for arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella , G. Ossola , T. Peraro

We develop an iterative method for constructing four-dimensional generalized unitarity cuts in $\mathcal{N} = 2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory coupled to fundamental matter hypermultiplets ($\mathcal{N} = 2$ SQCD). For iterated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-08 Gregor Kälin , Gustav Mogull , Alexander Ochirov

We highlight the latest developments in computing higher-order scattering amplitudes with massive internal propagators. The contributing Feynman integrals often lead to special classes of functions, for example, functions associated with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-26 Ekta Chaubey

We review recent progress in D-dimensional integrand reduction algorithms for two loop amplitudes and give examples of their application to non-planar maximal cuts of the five-point all-plus helicity amplitude in QCD.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-14 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

We present the analytic expressions of the three-loop virtual corrections to the helicity amplitudes of 2 -> 2 four-fermion scattering processes in massless QED. The contributing Feynman diagrams are grouped into integrand families…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Giulio Crisanti , Thomas Dave , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Jonathan Ronca , Sid Smith , William J. Torres Bobadilla

The high-energy factorization of gauge theory scattering amplitudes in terms of universal impact factors and a Reggeized exchange in the $t$-channel, corresponding to a Regge pole in the angular momentum plane, is know to conflict with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-19 Vittorio Del Duca , Giulio Falcioni , Lorenzo Magnea , Leonardo Vernazza

Any loop QCD amplitude at full colour is constructed from kinematic and gauge-group building blocks. In a unitarity-based on-shell framework, both objects can be reconstructed from their respective counterparts in tree-level amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-15 Alexander Ochirov , Ben Page

Scattering amplitudes are expected to admit a factorised structure in special kinematic limits, such as the Regge, soft and collinear limits. However, less is known about the precise mechanisms through which factorisation of $n$-particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 Claude Duhr , Einan Gardi , Sebastian Jaskiewicz , Jonas Lübken , Leonardo Vernazza

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of massless quarks in QCD. We use projector techniques to compute the coefficients of the general four-quark amplitude at up to two-loops in conventional dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 E. W. N. Glover

We revisit the multi-loop structure of the anomalous-dimension matrix governing the infrared divergences of massless $n$-particle scattering amplitudes in non-abelian gauge theories. In particular, we derive its most general form at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Thomas Becher , Matthias Neubert

After a brief review (in the first part) of some relevant properties of the high-energy parton-parton scattering amplitudes, in the second part we shall discuss the infrared finiteness and some analyticity properties of the loop-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Meggiolaro

In this note, we propose a factorization formula for gauge-theory scattering amplitudes up to two loops in the high-energy boosted limit. Our formula extends existing results in the literature by incorporating the contributions from massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-20 Guoxing Wang , Tianya Xia , Li Lin Yang , Xiaoping Ye

We review the state-of-the-art knowledge of IR singularities in multileg QCD amplitudes, identifying the key reasons for the remarkable simplicity of the soft anomalous dimension. We then present a novel strategy to compute this quantity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-22 Einan Gardi , Zehao Zhu

Virtual two-loop corrections to scattering amplitudes are a key ingredient to precision physics at collider experiments. We compute the full set of planar master integrals relevant to five-point functions in massless QCD, and use these to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-18 T. Gehrmann , J. M. Henn , N. A. Lo Presti

The high energy amplitudes of the large angles Moller scattering are calculated in frame of chiral basis in Born and 1-loop QED level. Taking into account as well the contribution from emission of soft real photons the compact relations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 A. I. Ahmadov , Yu. M. Bystritskiy , A. N. Ilyichev , E. A. Kuraev , V. A. Zykunov