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We complete the study of two-loop infrared singularities of scattering amplitudes with an arbitrary number of massive and massless partons in non-abelian gauge theories. To this end, we calculate the universal functions F_1 and f_2, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-22 Andrea Ferroglia , Matthias Neubert , Ben D. Pecjak , Li Lin Yang

Multi-loop scattering amplitudes constitute a serious bottleneck in current high-energy physics computations. Obtaining new integrand level representations with smooth behaviour is crucial for solving this issue, and surpassing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-17 German F. R. Sborlini

We establish an efficient polynomial-complexity algorithm for one-loop calculations, based on generalized $D$-dimensional unitarity. It allows automated computations of both cut-constructible {\it and} rational parts of one-loop scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 Walter T. Giele , Zoltan Kunszt , Kirill Melnikov

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 review generalized unitarity as a means for obtaining loop amplitudes from on-shell tree amplitudes. The method is generally applicable to both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric amplitudes, including non-planar contributions. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Zvi Bern , Yu-tin Huang

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

The leading singularities of one-loop scattering amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory are known to factorise into products of tree-level amplitudes, and this can be seen from a number of different perspectives e.g.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 James Drummond , Matthew Rochford , Rowan Wright

We report on the recent completion of the three-loop calculation of the soft anomalous dimension in massless gauge-theory scattering amplitudes. This brings the state-of-the-art knowledge of long-distance singularities in multi-leg QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-21 Einan Gardi , Øyvind Almelid , Claude Duhr

We propose multiloop vacuum amplitudes as the optimal building blocks for efficiently assembling theoretical predictions at high-energy colliders. This hypothesis is strongly supported by the manifestly causal properties of the loop-tree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-06 Selomit Ramírez-Uribe , Prasanna K. Dhani , German F. R. Sborlini , Germán Rodrigo

Characterizing multiloop topologies is an important step towards developing novel methods at high perturbative orders in quantum field theory. In this article, we exploit the Loop-Tree Duality (LTD) formalism to analyse multiloop topologies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-08 Selomit Ramírez-Uribe , Roger J. Hernández-Pinto , Germán Rodrigo , German F. R. Sborlini

In this note, we address the question of whether locality, unitarity, and newly discovered hidden zeros can completely determine tree-level amplitudes, from the perspective of soft limit. We reconstruct the single-soft theorems of tree YM…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-09 Kang Zhou

We analyse the high-energy behavior of tree-level graviton Compton amplitudes for particles of mass m and arbitrary spin, concentrating on a combination of forward amplitudes that will be unaffected by eventual cross- couplings to other,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Cucchieri , S. Deser , M. Porrati

I discuss the state-of-the-art knowledge of long-distance singularities in multi-leg gauge-theory scattering amplitudes and report on an on-going calculation of the three-loop soft anomalous dimension through the renormalization of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-22 Einan Gardi

We analyze scattering amplitudes with one soft external graviton and arbitrary number of other finite energy external states carrying arbitrary mass and spin to sub-subleading order in the momentum of the soft graviton. Our result can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Alok Laddha , Ashoke Sen

Loop-level scattering amplitudes for massless particles have singularities in regions where tree amplitudes are perfectly smooth. For example, a $2\to4$ gluon scattering process has a singularity in which each incoming gluon splits into a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Lance J. Dixon , Ilya Esterlis

Four-particle tree-level scattering amplitudes in string theory are magically consistent with unitarity, reflected in the non-trivial fact that beneath the critical dimension, the residues of the amplitudes on massive poles can be expanded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Lorenz Eberhardt , Yu-tin Huang , Sebastian Mizera

We use our current understanding of the all-order singularity structure of gauge theory amplitudes to probe their high-energy limit. Our starting point is the dipole formula, a compact ansatz for the soft anomalous dimension matrix of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-26 Lorenzo Magnea , Vittorio Del Duca , Claude Duhr , Einan Gardi , Chris D. White

The standard unitarity-cut method is applied to several massive two-dimensional models, including the world-sheet AdS$_5\times S^5$ superstring, to compute $2\to 2$ scattering S-matrices at one loop from tree level amplitudes. Evidence is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-03 Valentina Forini , Lorenzo Bianchi , Ben Hoare

The loop-tree duality (LTD) theorem establishes that loop contributions to scattering amplitudes can be computed through dual integrals, which are build from single cuts of the virtual diagrams. In order to build a complete LTD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 N. Selomit Ramírez-Uribe , Roger J. Hernández-Pinto , Germán Rodrigo

I will review some of the recent intense activity concerning infrared and collinear divergences in gauge theory amplitudes. The central quantity in these studies is the multi-particle soft anomalous dimension matrix, which is completely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-05 Lorenzo Magnea