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The general structure of infrared divergences in the scattering of massive particles is captured by the soft anomalous dimension matrix. The latter can be computed from a correlation function of multiple Wilson lines. The state-of-the-art…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Johannes M. Henn , Calum Milloy , Kai Yan

We present the analytic form of the two-loop four-graviton scattering amplitudes in Einstein gravity. To remove ultraviolet divergences we include counterterms quadratic and cubic in the Riemann curvature tensor. The two-loop numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Jaquier , B. Page , M. S. Ruf , V. Sotnikov

We propose a non-perturbative formulation of planar scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM or, equivalently, polygonal Wilson loops. The construction is based on the OPE approach and introduces a new decomposition of the Wilson loop in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-04 Benjamin Basso , Amit Sever , Pedro Vieira

In the planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, the conformal symmetry constrains multi-loop n-edged Wilson loops to be given in terms of the one-loop n-edged Wilson loop, augmented, for n greater than 6, by a function of conformally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Vittorio Del Duca , Claude Duhr , Vladimir A. Smirnov

A covariant path integral calculation of the even spin structure contribution to the one-loop N-graviton scattering amplitude in the type-II superstring theory is presented. The apparent divergence of the $N=5$ amplitude is resolved by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Lee Montag

The method for obtaining functional equations, recently proposed by one of the authors, is applied to one-loop box integrals needed in calculations of radiative corrections to heavy-quark production and Bhabha scattering. We present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 Bernd A. Kniehl , Oleg V. Tarasov

We investigate the properties of interference fragmentation functions measurable from the distribution of two hadrons produced in the same jet in the current fragmentation region of a hard process. We discuss the azimuthal angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Bianconi , S. Boffi , R. Jakob , M. Radici

The integrand-level methods for the reduction of scattering amplitudes are well-established techniques, which have already proven their effectiveness in several applications at one-loop. In addition to the automation and refinement of tools…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-05 P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella , G. Ossola , T. Peraro , H. van Deurzen

In this sequel calculation of the one-loop Feynman integral pertaining to a massive box diagram contributing to the photon-photon scattering amplitude in quantum electrodynamics, we present the six solutions as yet unknown in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alfredo T. Suzuki , Alexandre G. M. Schmidt

We show that to n loop order the divergent content of a Feynman amplitude is spanned by a set of basic (logarithmically divergent) integrals which need not be evaluated. Only the coefficients of the basic divergent integrals are necessary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-04 L. C. T. Brito , H. G. Fargnoli , A. P. Baêta Scarpelli , Marcos Sampaio , M. C. Nemes

One-loop integrands can be written in terms of a simple, process-independent basis. We show that a similar basis exists for integrands of phase-space integrals for the real-emission contribution at next-to-leading order. Our demonstration…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-28 David A. Kosower , Ben Page

Scattering amplitudes at loop level can be expressed in terms of Feynman integrals. The latter satisfy partial differential equations in the kinematical variables. We argue that a good choice of basis for (multi-)loop integrals can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-26 Johannes M. Henn

We find an unexpected iterative structure within the two-loop five-gluon amplitude in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Specifically, we show that a subset of diagrams contributing to the full amplitude, including a two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Freddy Cachazo , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

A comprehensive study is performed of general massive, scalar, two-loop Feynman diagrams with three external legs. Algorithms for their numerical evaluation are introduced and discussed, numerical results are shown for all different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ferroglia , G. Passarino , M. Passera , S. Uccirati

New explicit expressions are derived for the one-loop two-point Feynman integral with arbitrary external momentum and masses $m_1^2$ and $m_2^2$ in D dimensions. The results are given in terms of Appell functions, manifestly symmetric with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. A. Shpot

We consider random normal matrix and planar symplectic ensembles, which can be interpreted as two-dimensional Coulomb gases having determinantal and Pfaffian structures, respectively. For general radially symmetric potentials, we derive the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Sung-Soo Byun , Nam-Gyu Kang , Seong-Mi Seo

The one-particle inclusive cross section in deeply inelastic lepton--nucleon scattering, expressed in terms of parton densities and fragmentation functions being differential in the invariant mass of the observed hadron and of the incoming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Dirk Graudenz

The scattering amplitudes of planar N = 4 super-Yang-Mills exhibit a number of remarkable analytic structures, including dual conformal symmetry and logarithmic singularities of integrands. The amplituhedron is a geometric construction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Sean Litsey , James Stankowicz , Jaroslav Trnka

We show that dual conformal symmetry, mainly studied in planar $\mathcal N = 4$ super-Yang-Mills theory, has interesting consequences for Feynman integrals in nonsupersymmetric theories such as QCD, including the nonplanar sector. A simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Zvi Bern , Michael Enciso , Harald Ita , Mao Zeng

Multi-loop Feynman integrals are key objects for the high-order correction computations in high energy phenomenology. These integrals with multiple scales, may have complicated symbol structures. We show that the dual conformal symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Song He , Zhenjie Li , Rourou Ma , Zihao Wu , Qinglin Yang , Yang Zhang