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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

A simple algorithm is presented to decompose any 1-loop amplitude for scattering processes of the class 2 fermions -> 4 fermions into a fixed number of gauge-invariant form factors. The structure of the amplitude is simpler than in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandro Vicini

Multi-loop scattering amplitudes constitute a serious bottleneck in current high-energy physics computations. Obtaining new integrand level representations with smooth behaviour is crucial for solving this issue, and surpassing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-17 German F. R. Sborlini

We present the first numerical computation of two-loop amplitudes based on the unitarity method. As a proof of principle, we compute the four-gluon process. We discuss the new method, analyze its numerical properties and apply it to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-11 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Jaquier , B. Page , M. Zeng

We review the current status of high-multiplicity double-virtual QCD corrections to processes relevant for LHC phenomenology. In particular, we discuss the recent full-color calculation of the five-parton process, whose two-loop amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-27 Giuseppe De Laurentis

We calculate the two-loop QCD corrections to $gg \to ZZ$ involving a closed top-quark loop. We present a new method to systematically construct linear combinations of Feynman integrals with a convergent parametric representation, where we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Bakul Agarwal , Stephen P. Jones , Andreas von Manteuffel

We present the mixed QCD-EW two-loop virtual amplitudes for the neutral current Drell-Yan production, one of the bottlenecks for the complete calculation of the NNLO mixed QCD-EW corrections. We present the computational details and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Simone Devoto

We calculate convergent 3-loop Feynman diagrams containing a single massive loop equipped with twist $\tau =2$ local operator insertions corresponding to spin $N$. They contribute to the massive operator matrix elements in QCD describing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Jakob Ablinger , Johannes Blümlein , Clemens Raab , Carsten Schneider , Fabian Wißbrock

The higher-order corrections become increasingly important with experiments reaching sub-percent level of uncertainty as they look for physics beyond the Standard Model. Our goal is to address the full set of two-loop electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-12 A. Aleksejevs

One of the main difficulties in studying Quantum Field Theory, in the perturbative regime, is the calculation of D-dimensional Feynman integrals. In general, one introduces the so-called Feynman parameters and associated with them the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. T. Suzuki , A. G. M. Schmidt

We propose an alternative approach based on series representation to directly reduce multi-loop multi-scale scattering amplitude into set of freely chosen master integrals. And this approach avoid complicated calculations of inverse matrix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-06 Yefan Wang , Zhao Li , Najam ul Basat

Numerical evaluations of Feynman integrals often proceed via a deformation of the integration contour into the complex plane. While valid contours are easy to construct, the numerical precision for a multi-loop integral can depend…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-22 Ramon Winterhalder , Vitaly Magerya , Emilio Villa , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Anja Butter , Gudrun Heinrich , Tilman Plehn

We present a formalism for the calculation of multi-particle one-loop amplitudes, valid for an arbitrary number N of external legs, and for massive as well as massless particles. A new method for the tensor reduction is suggested which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-16 T. Binoth , J. Ph. Guillet , G. Heinrich , E. Pilon , C. Schubert

Compton scattering is a fundamental process in QED with broad applications, yet its theoretical description at high energies is challenged by substantial next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections arising from double-logarithmic enhancements.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Hai Tao Li , Yan-Qing Ma , Cheng-Tai Tan , Jian Wang , Hong-Fei Zhang

An algorithm for the reduction of one-loop n-point tensor integrals to basic integrals is proposed. We transform tensor integrals to scalar integrals with shifted dimension and reduce these by recurrence relations to integrals in generic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Fleischer , F. Jegerlehner , O. V. Tarasov

In this review, we discuss recent developments concerning efficient calculations of multi-loop multi-leg scattering amplitudes. Inspired by the remarkable properties of the Loop-Tree Duality (LTD), we explain how to reconstruct an integrand…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-30 German F. R. Sborlini

The numerical unitarity approach has been important for obtaining reliable QCD predictions for the LHC. Here I discuss the extension of the approach beyond the leading quantum corrections for computing multi-loop amplitudes. The numerical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-27 Harald Ita

A framework to represent and compute two-loop $N$-point Feynman diagrams as double-integrals is discussed. The integrands are 'generalised one-loop type" multi-point functions multiplied by simple weighting factors. The final integrations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 J. Ph. Guillet , E. Pilon , Y. Shimizu , M. S. Zidi

I present the computation of the two-loop amplitudes for the scattering of a lepton pair with an off-shell and an on-shell photon in massless QED. We apply modern techniques developed to tackle QCD amplitudes with many scales: we express…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Simone Zoia

I review the state-of-the-art for fully differential numerical NNLO programs. Topics which are covered include the calculation of two-loop amplitudes, multiple polylogarithms, cancellation of infra-red divergences at NNLO and the efficient…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Weinzierl