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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

The scattering equation formalism is a general framework for calculation of amplitudes in theories of massless particles. We provide a detailed introduction to the 4D scattering equation framework accessible to non-experts, outline current…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-29 Joseph A. Farrow

One of the most severe bottlenecks to reach high-precision predictions in QFT is the calculation of multiloop multileg Feynman integrals. Several new strategies have been proposed in the last years, allowing impressive results with deep…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 German F. R. Sborlini

Tree and loop level scattering amplitudes which involve physical massless bosons are derived directly from physical constraints such as locality, symmetry and unitarity, bypassing path integral constructions. Amplitudes can be projected…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Rutger H. Boels , Hui Luo

An explicit Loop Tree Duality (LTD) formula for two-loop Feynman integrals with integer power of propagators is presented and used for a numerical UV divergence subtraction algorithm. This algorithm proceeds recursively and it is based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 Daniele Artico

In the past years, we have been developing a novel technique, called Four-Dimensional Unsubtraction (FDU) which aims to obtain purely four-dimensional representations of the matrix elements contributing to physical observables. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-05 German F. R. Sborlini

We show how one-loop corrections to scattering amplitudes of scalars and gauge bosons can be obtained from tree amplitudes in one higher dimension. Starting with a complete tree-level scattering amplitude of n+2 particles in five…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Freddy Cachazo , Song He , Ellis Ye Yuan

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

We derive a duality relation between one-loop integrals and phase-space integrals emerging from them through single cuts. The duality relation is realized by a modification of the customary +i0 prescription of the Feynman propagators. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 Stefano Catani , Tanju Gleisberg , Frank Krauss , German Rodrigo , Jan-Christopher Winter

We find that scattering amplitudes in massive scalar QCD can manifest the duality between color and kinematics at loop-level. Specifically we construct the one-loop integrands for four-point scattering between two distinct massive scalars,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-10 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Ingrid A. Vazquez-Holm

We study scalar one-loop amplitudes in massive $\phi^3$-theory within causal loop-tree duality. We derive a recurrence relation for the integrand of the amplitude. The integrand is by construction free of spurious singularities on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-07 Sascha Kromin , Niklas Schwanemann , Stefan Weinzierl

Motivated by the limited interaction between the mathematical physics community and theoretical physicists - particularly in high-energy theory - we present a computation that is typically the first example in QFT courses but, to our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 H. A. C. Grande , J. C. A Barata

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

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 introduce a constructive method for defining a global loop-integrand basis for scattering amplitudes, encompassing both planar and nonplanar contributions. Our approach utilizes a graph-based framework to establish a well-defined,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-26 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

The overall coefficient of the two-loop 4-particle amplitude in superstring theory is determined by making use of the factorization and unitarity. To accomplish this we computed in detail all the relevant tree and one-loop amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhi-Guang Xiao , Chuan-Jie Zhu

A central problem in quantum field theory is the computation of scattering amplitudes. However, traditional methods are impractical to calculate high order phenomenologically relevant observables. Building on a few decades of astonishing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Andrea Orta , Matteo Parisi

Explicit expressions for one-loop five supergraviton scattering amplitudes in both type II superstring theories are determined by making use of the pure spinor formalism. The type IIB amplitude can be expressed in terms of a doubling of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael B. Green , Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

Following an argument advanced by Feynman, we consider a method for obtaining the effective action which generates the sum of tree diagrams with external physical particles. This technique is applied, in the unbroken \lambda \phi^4 theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Fernando T Brandt , Josif Frenkel

We present a method for the direct extraction of rational contributions to one-loop scattering amplitudes, missed by standard four-dimensional unitarity techniques. We use generalised unitarity in $D=4-2\e$ dimensions to write the loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-27 S. D. Badger