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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

We calculate the one-loop QCD virtual corrections to all helicity amplitudes for parton level virtual Compton scattering processes. We include the amplitudes both on quark target process $\gamma^* q\to\gamma q$ and on gluon target process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 H. W. Huang , T. Morii

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 present the leading-color two-loop QCD corrections for the scattering of four partons and a $W$ boson, including its leptonic decay. The amplitudes are assembled from the planar two-loop helicity amplitudes for four partons and a vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-12 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Klinkert , B. Page , V. Sotnikov

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

The analytical result for the six-photon helicity amplitudes in scalar QED is presented. To compute the loop, a recently developed method based on multiple cuts is used. The amplitudes for QED and $QED^{\caln=1}$ are also derived using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 C. Bernicot , J. -Ph. Guillet

We compute the three-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of four gluons in QCD. We employ projectors in the 't Hooft-Veltman scheme and construct the amplitudes from a minimal set of physical building blocks, which allows us to keep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-30 Fabrizio Caola , Amlan Chakraborty , Giulio Gambuti , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

We describe the unitarity approach for the numerical computation of two-loop integral coefficients of scattering amplitudes. It is well known that the leading propagator singularities of an amplitude's integrand are related to products of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Jaquier , B. Page

We describe the decomposition of one-loop QCD amplitudes in terms of colour-ordered building blocks. We give new expressions for the coefficients of QCD colour structures in terms of ordered objects called primitive amplitudes, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Harald Ita , Kemal Ozeren

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 present analytic expressions for the one-loop QCD helicity amplitudes contributing to top-quark pair production in association with a photon or a jet at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), evaluated through $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2)$ in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Souvik Bera , Colomba Brancaccio , Dhimiter Canko , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto

In this paper, we show how to calculate analytically the one-loop helicity amplitudes for the process $q\bar{q} rightarrow t\bar{t}$ induced by KK gluon, using the spinor-helicity formalism. A minimal set of Feynman rules which are uniquely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-15 Hua Xing Zhu , Chong Sheng Li , Liang Dai , Jun Gao , Jian Wang , C. -P. Yuan

We present the one-loop QCD amplitudes for two external massless quarks and three external gluons ($\bar{q}qggg$). This completes the set of one-loop amplitudes needed for the next-to-leading-order corrections to three-jet production at…

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

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

In this talk we review the recent computation of the five- and six-gluon two-loop amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory using local integrands which make the infrared pole structure manifest. We make some remarks on the connection with BCJ…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-04 Simon Badger , Gustav Mogull , Tiziano Peraro

We use on-shell recursion relations to determine the one-loop QCD scattering amplitudes with a massless external quark pair and an arbitrary number (n-2) of positive-helicity gluons. These amplitudes are the last of the unknown infrared-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

The spinor-helicity formalism has proven to be very efficient in the calculation of scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory, while the loop tree duality (LTD) representation of multi-loop integrals exhibits appealing and interesting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-27 Felix Driencourt-Mangin , German Rodrigo , German F. R. Sborlini , William J. Torres Bobadilla

We calculate the complete two-loop QCD amplitudes for hadronic $tW$ production by combining analytical and numerical techniques. The amplitudes have been first reduced to master integrals of eight planar and seven non-planar families, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Long-Bin Chen , Liang Dong , Hai Tao Li , Zhao Li , Jian Wang , Yefan Wang

I describe a method for determining the coefficients of scalar integrals for one-loop amplitudes in quantum field theory. The method is based upon generalized unitarity and the behavior of amplitudes when the free parameters of the cut…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-12 William B. Kilgore

We discuss the calculation of two-loop helicity amplitudes for quark-quark scattering in QCD and four-gluino scattering in N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We study the dependence of the results on different variants of dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. De Freitas , Z. Bern