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Virtual two-loop corrections to scattering amplitudes are a key ingredient to precision physics at collider experiments. We compute the full set of planar master integrals relevant to five-point functions in massless QCD, and use these to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-18 T. Gehrmann , J. M. Henn , N. A. Lo Presti

Recent results on the entirely analytic calculation of second order corrections to massive quark pair production vertices induced by light quark flavours are reviewed. Based on the method presented in this talk the second order effects of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. H. Hoang

Recent Developments in computing very specific helicity amplitudes in two loop QCD are presented. The techniques focus upon the singular structure of the amplitude rather than on a diagramatic and integration approach

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-15 David C. Dunbar , John H Godwin , Guy R. Jehu , Warren B. Perkins

In this paper we present two methods to evaluate non-factorizable corrections to pair-production of unstable particles. The methods are illustrated in detail for W-pair-mediated four-fermion production. The results are valid a few widths…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 W. Beenakker , A. P. Chapovsky , F. A. Berends

We compute three-loop corrections to the process $gg\to HH$ originating from one-particle reducible diagrams. This requires the computation of two-loop corrections to the gluon-gluon-Higgs vertex with an off-shell gluon. We describe in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-03 Joshua Davies , Kay Schönwald , Matthias Steinhauser , Marco Vitti

In these proceedings, we consider the factorizable contributions of the two-loop electroweak corrections to Higgs boson pair production at the Large Hadron Collider. We discuss the classification of factorizable diagrams and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-09 Joshua Davies , Kay Schönwald , Matthias Steinhauser , Hantian Zhang

Pushing the reach of NNLO QCD predictions to $2\to3$ production processes is one of the pillars of precision phenomenology program at the LHC. In this talk we will overview recent results and developments in the calculation of two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-26 V. Sotnikov

We compute the part of the two-loop virtual amplitude for the process $gg \to V_1 V_2 \to (l_1 \bar l'_{1}) (l_2 \bar l'_2)$, where $V_{1,2}$ are arbitrary electroweak gauge bosons, that receives contributions from loops of massless quarks.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-02 Fabrizio Caola , Johannes M. Henn , Kirill Melnikov , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We present the two-loop pure gauge contribution to the gluon-gluon scattering amplitude with maximal helicity violation. Our construction of the amplitude does not rely directly on Feynman diagrams, but instead uses its analytic properties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-27 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

We evaluate the fermionic two-loop QCD corrections to the heavy-quark pair production process in the quark-antiquark channel. We obtain analytic results which are valid for any value of the Mandelstam invariants s and t, and of the heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Bonciani , A. Ferroglia , T. Gehrmann , D. Maitre , C. Studerus

The associated production of a photon and a top-antitop quark pair ($t\bar{t}\gamma$) is important for measuring the top-quark charge and probing the top-photon interaction, and it requires improved theoretical predictions. We focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-03 Guoxing Wang , Li Lin Yang

We present the analytic and compact two-loop helicity amplitudes for QCD and QED corrections to the light-by-light scattering process with massive internal fermions. We express the master integrals either in terms of multiple polylogarithms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Ajjath A H , Ekta Chaubey , Hua-Sheng Shao

We compute the corrections to the two-loop amplitudes for $gg \to h$, $gg \to hg$, $qg \to hq$, and $q \bar q \to hg$ due to a modified cubic Higgs self-coupling. The exact dependence on the Higgs and top-quark masses across the entire $2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-23 Ulrich Haisch , Marco Niggetiedt

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

In this talk, we discuss top-quark contributions to $ZZ$ production through gluon fusion at two loops. We use syzygies and modular arithmetic to compute the reductions to master integrals. In order to numerically evaluate the amplitude, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-19 Bakul Agarwal , Andreas von Manteuffel

We present advances in the development of the numerical unitarity method for the computation of multi-loop amplitudes in QCD. As an application, we show results for all the leading-color two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitudes. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-26 Samuel Abreu , Fernando Febres Cordero , Harald Ita , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

We show some new applications of on-shell methods to calculate compact helicity amplitudes for t tbar production through gluon fusion. The rational and mass renormalisation contributions are extracted from two independent Feynman diagram…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-11 Simon Badger , Ralf Sattler , Valery Yundin

Factorization theorems for single inclusive jet production play a crucial role in the study of jets and their substructure. In the case of small radius jets, the dynamics of the jet clustering can be factorized from both the hard production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Kyle Lee , Ian Moult , Xiaoyuan Zhang

In this paper, we present analytical results for the two-loop QCD corrections to the production of two partons or a photon and a parton in hadronic collisions, mediated by loops of massive quarks. These amplitudes involve Feynman integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Federico Coro , Christoph Nega , Lorenzo Tancredi , Fabian J. Wagner

We compute the contribution of third generation quarks ($t,\ b$) to the two-loop amplitude for on-shell $W$ boson pair production in gluon fusion $gg \to WW$. We present plots for the amplitude across partonic phase space as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Chen-Yu Wang