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We apply the Landau equations, whose solutions parameterize the locus of possible branch points, to the one- and two-loop Feynman integrals relevant to MHV amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. We then identify which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Tristan Dennen , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We introduce a novel approach for solving the problem of identifying regions in the framework of Method of Regions by considering singularities and the associated Landau equations given a multi-scale Feynman diagram. These equations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 B. Ananthanarayan , Abhishek Pal , S. Ramanan , Ratan Sarkar

Over the last year significant progress was made in the understanding of the computation of Feynman integrals using differential equations. These lectures give a review of these developments, while not assuming any prior knowledge of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Johannes M. Henn

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 show that direct Feynman-parametric loop integration is possible for a large class of planar multi-loop integrals. Much of this follows from the existence of manifestly dual-conformal Feynman-parametric representations of planar loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Andrew J. McLeod , Matt von Hippel , Matthias Wilhelm

We discuss the duality theorem, which provides a relation between loop integrals and phase space integrals. We rederive the duality relation for the one-loop case and extend it to two and higher-order loops. We explicitly show its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-03 Isabella Bierenbaum , Stefano Catani , Petros Draggiotis , German Rodrigo

The Loop-Tree Duality (LTD) is a novel perturbative method in QFT that establishes a relation between loop-level and tree-level scattering amplitudes. This is achieved by directly applying the Residue Theorem to the loop-energy-integration.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-25 Sebastian Buchta

We reformulate the Landau analysis of Feynman integrals with the aim of advancing the state of the art in modern particle-physics computations. We contribute new algorithms for computing Landau singularities, using tools from polyhedral…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Claudia Fevola , Sebastian Mizera , Simon Telen

We compute the leading (first-type Landau) singularities of a certain four-loop 7-point graph that is related to the 7-point ``ziggurat'' graph by the graphical moves familiar from equivalent circuit theory. We find perfect agreement with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-02 Luke Lippstreu , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

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

In this paper, we study systematically scalar one-loop two-, three-, and four-point Feynman integrals with complex internal masses. Our analytic results presented in this report are valid for both real and complex internal masses. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-19 K. H. Phan , T. N. H. Pham

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…

In this paper, we study the singularities of Feynman integrals using homological techniques. We analyse the Feynman integrals by compactifying the integration domain as well as the ambient space by embedding them in higher-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-06 Tanay Pathak , Ramesh Sreekantan

Loop-tree duality (LTD) allows to express virtual contributions in terms of phase-space integrals, thus leading to a direct mapping with real radiation terms. We review the basis of the method and describe its application to regularize…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-19 German F. R. Sborlini , Roger Hernandez-Pinto , German Rodrigo

A short review of the method for the tensor reduction of Feynman integrals based on recurrence relations with respect to space-time dimension d- is given. A solution of the difference equation with respect to d for the n - point one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 O. V. Tarasov

We revisit the conjectural method called Schubert analysis for generating the alphabet of symbol letters for Feynman integrals, which was based on geometries of intersecting lines associated with corresponding cut diagrams. We explain the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-16 Song He , Xuhang Jiang , Jiahao Liu , Qinglin Yang

A systematic algorithm for obtaining recurrence relations for dimensionally regularized Feynman integrals w.r.t. the space-time dimension $d$ is proposed. The relation between $d$ and $d-2$ dimensional integrals is given in terms of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 O. V. Tarasov

In this note we revisit the maximal-codimension residues, or leading singularities, of four-dimensional $L$-loop traintrack integrals with massive legs, both in Feynman parameter space and in momentum (twistor) space. We identify a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Qu Cao , Song He , Yichao Tang

We advance the exploration of cluster-algebraic patterns in the building blocks of scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. In particular we conjecture that, given a maximal cut of a loop amplitude, Landau…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-15 Ömer Gürdoğan , Matteo Parisi

Representations are derived for the basic scalar one-loop vertex Feynman integrals as meromorphic functions of the space-time dimension $d$ in terms of (generalized) hypergeometric functions $_2F_1$ and $F_1$. Values at asymptotic or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Johannes Bluemlein , Khiem Hong Phan , Tord Riemann