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We solve the integration-by-parts (IBP) identities needed for the computation of any planar two-loop five-point massless amplitude in QCD. We also derive some new results for the most complicated non-planar topology with irreducible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-13 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Matthew A. Lim , Alexander Mitov

We apply the recently proposed amplitude reduction at the integrand level method, to the computation of the scattering process 2 photons -> 4 photons, including the case of a massive fermion loop. We also present several improvements of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-21 Giovanni Ossola , Costas G. Papadopoulos , Roberto Pittau

QCD amplitudes are one of the most important ingredients for the understanding of the early universe. In this work we present how the knowledge of the asymptotic states can be used to calculate the scattering amplitude of the underline QCD…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-02 Andriniaina Narindra Rasoanaivo

We consider the three-loop scattering amplitudes for the production of a pair of photons in quark-antiquark annihilation in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). We use suitably defined projectors to efficiently calculate all helicity amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Fabrizio Caola , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

In this talk, we present the first chiral extrapolation of a resonant scattering amplitude obtained from lattice QCD. Finite-volume spectra, determined by the Hadron Spectrum Collaboration at $m_\pi = 236$ MeV, for the isotriplet $\pi\pi$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 Daniel R. Bolton , Raúl A. Briceño , David J. Wilson

In this paper, we present the two-loop correction to scattering amplitudes in three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=6$ Chern-Simons matter theory. We use eight-point case as our main example, but the method generalizes to all multiplicities. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-09 Song He , Yu-tin Huang , Chia-Kai Kuo , Zhenjie Li

The decomposition of a one-loop scattering amplitude into elementary functions with rational coefficients introduces spurious singularities which afflict individual coefficients but cancel in the complete amplitude. These cancellations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 David C. Dunbar , James H. Ettle , Warren B. Perkins

We extend the discussion of the recently discovered 'anomaly poles' in QCD Compton scattering. We perform the complete one-loop calculation of the Compton amplitude using momentum transfer $t$ as the regulator of collinear divergences. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-25 Shohini Bhattacharya , Yoshitaka Hatta , Werner Vogelsang

We present advances in the development of the numerical unitarity method for the computation of multi-loop amplitudes in QCD. As an application, we show results for all the leading-color two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitudes. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-26 Samuel Abreu , Fernando Febres Cordero , Harald Ita , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

We compute the leading colour contributions to five-gluon scattering at two loops in massless QCD. The integrands of all independent helicity amplitudes are evaluated using d-dimensional generalised unitarity cuts and finite field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Tiziano Peraro

We use generalized unitarity at the integrand-level to directly construct local, manifestly dual-conformally invariant formulae for all two-loop scattering amplitudes in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (SYM). This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-22 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Jaroslav Trnka

We present the first public version of Caravel, a C++17 framework for the computation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory, based on the numerical unitarity method. Caravel is composed of modules for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 S. Abreu , J. Dormans , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Kraus , B. Page , E. Pascual , M. S. Ruf , V. Sotnikov

We present and numerically implement a computational method to construct relativistic scattering amplitudes that obey analyticity, crossing, elastic and inelastic unitarity in three and four spacetime dimensions. The algorithm is based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-17 Piotr Tourkine , Alexander Zhiboedov

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

We compute helicity amplitudes for the one-loop QCD corrections to top-quark pair production analytically in terms of a set of uniformly transcendental master integrals. We provide corrections up to $O(\epsilon^2)$ in the dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-29 Simon Badger , Matteo Becchetti , Ekta Chaubey , Robin Marzucca , Francesco Sarandrea

Lattice QCD studies of hadron-hadron interactions are performed by computing the energy levels of the system in a finite box. The shifts in energy levels proportional to inverse powers of the volume are related to scattering parameters in a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-17 Paulo F. Bedaque , Ikuro Sato , Andre Walker-Loud

The infrared divergences of QCD scattering amplitudes can be derived from an anomalous dimension \Gamma, which is a matrix in color space and depends on the momenta and masses of the external partons. It has recently been shown that in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 Andrea Ferroglia , Matthias Neubert , Ben D. Pecjak , Li Lin Yang

We present the O(alpha_s^4) virtual QCD corrections to gluon-gluon scattering due to the interference of tree and two-loop amplitudes. We work in conventional dimensional regularisation and give analytic expressions renormalised in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 E. W. N. Glover , C. Oleari , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

We present the analytic calculation of the Master Integrals for the two-loop, non-planar topologies that enter the calculation of the amplitude for top-quark pair hadroproduction in the quark-annihilation channel. Using the method of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Matteo Becchetti , Roberto Bonciani , Valerio Casconi , Andrea Ferroglia , Simone Lavacca , Andreas von Manteuffel

We review the recent developments of the loop-tree duality method, focussing our discussion on analysing the singular behaviour of the loop integrand of the dual representation of one-loop integrals and scattering amplitudes. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-23 Sebastian Buchta , Grigorios Chachamis , Ioannis Malamos , Isabella Bierenbaum , Petros Draggiotis , German Rodrigo