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We combine the six-dimensional helicity formalism of Cheung and O'Connell with D-dimensional generalized unitarity to obtain a new formalism for computing one-loop amplitudes in dimensionally regularized QCD. With this procedure, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Scott Davies

We present the one-loop helicity amplitudes for processes involving a vector boson V (V=W,Z, or gamma^*) and four massless quarks, 0 to V q-bar q Q-bar Q, where V couples to a massless lepton pair. These amplitudes are required for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower , S. Weinzierl

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

We compute the three-loop leading-colour corrections to the Yang-Mills Regge trajectory and gluon impact factor. Conjecturing that, in analogy with $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM), in a suitable scheme $N_c$-subleading terms are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-16 Vittorio Del Duca , Robin Marzucca , Bram Verbeek

The one-loop QCD effective charge $\alpha_s^{eff}$ for quark-quark scattering is derived by diagrammatic resummation of the one-loop amplitude using an arbitary covariant gauge. Except for the particular choice of gauge parameter $\xi =…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 J. H. Field

The infrared exponentiation properties of dimensionally-regularized multi-loop scattering amplitudes are typically hidden at the level of the integrand, materializing only after integral evaluation. We address this long-standing problem by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-22 Robert M. Schabinger

The factorisation of QCD matrix elements in the limit of two external partons becoming collinear is described by process-independent splitting amplitudes, which can be expanded systematically in perturbation theory. Working in conventional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Claude Duhr , Thomas Gehrmann , Matthieu Jaquier

We discuss how higher-point QCD amplitudes may be constructed from lower point ones by imposing the factorization constraints in the limits as external momenta become collinear. As a particular example, the all-$n$ gluon one-loop amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 G. Chalmers

We present virtual contributions up to two loop level in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamic (QCD) to the decay of pseudo-scalar Higgs boson ($A$) to three gluons ($g$) and also to quark ($q$), anti-quark ($\overline q$) and a gluon. With…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-20 Pulak Banerjee , Prasanna K. Dhani , V. Ravindran

The analytical result for the six-photon helicity amplitudes in scalar QED is presented. To compute the loop, a recently developed method based on multiple cuts is used. The amplitudes for QED and $QED^{\caln=1}$ are also derived using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 C. Bernicot , J. -Ph. Guillet

We complete the computation of the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the production of three photons at hadron colliders, including all contributions beyond the leading-color approximation. We reconstruct the analytic form of the amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-16 Samuel Abreu , Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Maximillian Klinkert , Ben Page , Vasily Sotnikov

We compute the two-loop mixed QCD-Electroweak corrections to $q \overline{q} \to H g$ and its crossed channels $q g \to H q$, $\overline{q} g \to H \overline{q}$, limiting ourselves to the contribution of light virtual quarks. We compute…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-18 Marco Bonetti , Erik Panzer , Lorenzo Tancredi

We consider the factorization properties of on-shell QCD amplitudes with massive partons in the limit when all kinematical invariants are large compared to the parton mass and discuss the structure of their infrared singularities. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 S. Moch , A. Mitov

We report on the complete three-loop corrections to the Higgs-gluon form factor in QCD. While previous calculations are based on QCD with a single heavy quark of arbitrary mass, we extend the study to QCD involving two different massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-28 Marco Niggetiedt , Johann Usovitsch

We determine the complete three-loop QCD soft anomalous dimension for multileg amplitudes involving a single massive coloured particle and any number of massless ones. This is achieved by applying a novel strategy based on a lightcone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-03 Einan Gardi , Zehao Zhu

The talk briefly reviews the current state of the art in doing multiloop QCD calculations in a completely analytic way. In particular, we discuss recent analytical calculation of 4-loop O(alpha_s**3) gluino contribution to R(s) and its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 K. G. Chetyrkin

The amplitudes of hadron-hadron forward elastic scattering at high energy a re investigated on the basis of analiticity and crossing-symmetry which is valid in QCD. The universal uniformizing variable for them is proposed and the formulae…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Majewski , V. A. Meshcheryakov

We present the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) contributions to the main splitting functions for the evolution of longitudinally polarized parton densities of hadrons in perturbative QCD. The quark-quark and gluon-quark splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Moch , J. A. M. Vermaseren , A. Vogt

We use the solutions to the recursion relations for double-off-shell fermion currents to compute helicity amplitudes for $n$-photon scattering and electron-positron annihilation to photons in the massless limit of QED. The form of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Gregory Mahlon

We consider the process containing two quark lines and an arbitrary number of gluons in a spinor helicity framework. A current with two off-shell gluons appears in the amplitude. We first study this modified gluon current using recursion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 G. Mahlon , T. M. Yan , C. Dunn