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Elaborating on the novel formulation of the loop-tree duality, we introduce the Mathematica package Lotty that automates the latter at multi-loop level. By studying the features of Lotty and recalling former studies, we discuss that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 William J. Torres Bobadilla

The abundance of infrared singularities in gauge theories due to unresolved emission of massless particles (soft and collinear) represents the main difficulty in perturbative calculations. They are typically regularized in dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Roger J. Hernandez-Pinto , German F. R. Sborlini , German Rodrigo

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

The computation of multi-loop multi-leg scattering amplitudes plays a key role to improve the precision of theoretical predictions for particle physics at high-energy colliders. In this work, we focus on the mathematical properties of the…

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

The causal representation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes, obtained from the application of the loop-tree duality formalism, comprehensively elucidates, at integrand level, the behaviour of only physical singularities. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 William J. Torres Bobadilla

The perturbative approach to quantum field theories has made it possible to obtain incredibly accurate theoretical predictions in high-energy physics. Although various techniques have been developed to boost the efficiency of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Selomit Ramirez-Uribe , Roger J. Hernandez-Pinto , German Rodrigo , German F. R. Sborlini , William J. Torres Bobadilla

Multiloop scattering amplitudes describing the quantum fluctuations at high-energy scattering processes are the main bottleneck in perturbative quantum field theory. The loop-tree duality is a novel method aimed at overcoming this…

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

The computation of perturbative corrections to processes involving heavy quarks is crucial for the precision program of the LHC and future colliders. In this article, we describe a powerful approach to calculate higher-orders in QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-17 German F. R. Sborlini

We present a new algorithm to construct a purely four dimensional representation of higher-order perturbative corrections to physical cross-sections at next-to-leading order (NLO). The algorithm is based on the loop-tree duality (LTD), and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-12 German F. R. Sborlini , Felix Driencourt-Mangin , Roger Hernandez-Pinto , German Rodrigo

We review the recent progress on the numerical implementation of the Loop-Tree Duality Method (LTDM) for the calculation of scattering amplitudes. A central point is the analysis of the singularities of the integrand. In the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-25 Sebastian Buchta , Grigorios Chachamis , Petros Draggiotis , Ioannis Malamos , German Rodrigo

A proof-of-concept application of a quantum algorithm to multiloop Feynman integrals in the Loop-Tree Duality (LTD) framework is applied to a representative four-loop topology. Bootstrapping causality in the LTD formalism, is a suitable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Andrés E. Rentería-Olivo

We relate a $l$-loop Feynman integral to a sum of phase space integrals, where the integrands are determined by the spanning trees of the original $l$-loop graph. Causality requires that the propagators of the trees have a modified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Robert Runkel , Zoltán Szőr , Juan Pablo Vesga , Stefan Weinzierl

First results towards a general method for asymptotic expansions of Feynman amplitudes in the loop-tree duality (LTD) formalism are presented. The asymptotic expansion takes place at integrand-level in the Euclidean space of the loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Judith Plenter , Germán Rodrigo

We discuss briefly the first numerical implementation of the Loop-Tree Duality (LTD) method. We apply the LTD method in order to calculate ultraviolet and infrared finite multi-leg one-loop Feynman integrals. We attack scalar and tensor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-05 Grigorios Chachamis , Sebastian Buchta , Petros Draggiotis , German Rodrigo

A general outlook is presented on the study of multiloop topologies appearing for the first time at four loops. A unified description and representation of this family is provided, the so-called N$^4$MLT universal topology. Based on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-13 Selomit Ramírez-Uribe

We describe the calculation of the one-loop corrections to $H \to \gamma \gamma$ and $g g \to H$ within the four-dimensional unsubtraction/loop-tree duality (FDU/LTD) approach. The fact that these corrections are both IR and UV finite is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-29 German F. R. Sborlini , Felix Driencourt-Mangin , German Rodrigo

We present the first comprehensive analysis of the unitarity thresholds and anomalous thresholds of scattering amplitudes at two loops and beyond based on the loop-tree duality, and show how non-causal unphysical thresholds are locally…

We describe the motivation behind the recent formulation of a nonperturbative path integral for Lorentzian quantum gravity defined through Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). In the case of two dimensions the model is analytically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Zohren