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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 a fully analytic calculation of the leading-order one-loop amplitude for triple Higgs production via gluon fusion, $gg \to HHH$, retaining full dependence on the mass of the heavy quark circulating in the loop. This amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 John M. Campbell , Giuseppe De Laurentis , R. Keith Ellis

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of massless quarks in QCD. We use projector techniques to compute the coefficients of the general four-quark amplitude at up to two-loops in conventional dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 E. W. N. Glover

An overview of the calculation of the two-loop helicity amplitudes for scattering of two gluons into two photons is presented. These matrix elements enter into the recent improved calculation of the QCD background to Higgs boson decay into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , A. De Freitas , L. Dixon

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

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

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 present the two-loop helicity amplitudes contributing to the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD predictions for W-boson production in association with two photons at the Large Hadron Collider. We derived compact analytic expressions for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-27 Simon Badger , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Zihao Wu , Yang Zhang , Simone Zoia

We present results for the six-gluon scattering amplitude at one-loop. Since our method is semi-numerical, it yields the result for arbitrary momenta and helicities of the external gluons. We evaluate the colour-ordered sub-amplitudes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Giulia Zanderighi

We compute the three-loop four-gluon scattering amplitude in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, including its full color dependence. Our result is the first complete computation of a non-planar four-particle scattering amplitude to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-26 Johannes M. Henn , Bernhard Mistlberger

We calculate the contributions to the two-loop scattering amplitudes $h \to gg$, $h \to ggg$ and $h \to q \bar q g$ that arise from a modified trilinear Higgs coupling $\lambda$. Analytic expressions are obtained by performing an asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 Martin Gorbahn , Ulrich Haisch

We compute the planar three-loop Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) corrections to the helicity amplitudes involving a vector boson $V=Z,W^\pm,\gamma^*$, two quarks and a gluon. These amplitudes are relevant to vector-boson-plus-jet production at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-07 Thomas Gehrmann , Petr Jakubčík , Cesare Carlo Mella , Nikolaos Syrrakos , Lorenzo Tancredi

We present a new method for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory. It extends the Generalized Unitarity method by constraining not only the integrand of the amplitude but also its full integrated form. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Piotr Bargiela

We derive the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for the processes $l q \to l qg$ ($l \bar q \to l \bar q g$) and $l g \to l q\bar q$, which are the partonic reactions yielding $(2+1)$-jet final states in deep inelastic lepton nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover

We compute all helicity amplitudes for the scattering of five partons in two-loop QCD in all the relevant flavor configurations, retaining all contributing color structures. We employ tensor projection to obtain helicity amplitudes in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-01 Bakul Agarwal , Federico Buccioni , Federica Devoto , Giulio Gambuti , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

We compute the contribution of three-loop mixed QCD-electroweak corrections ($\alpha_S^2\alpha^2$) to the $gg \to H$ scattering amplitude. We employ the method of differential equations to compute the relevant integrals and express them in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-10 Marco Bonetti , Kirill Melnikov , Lorenzo Tancredi

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 complete the computation of two-loop helicity amplitudes required to obtain next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections for three-jet production at hadron colliders, including all contributions beyond the leading-color approximation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Vasily Sotnikov

We compute the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a bottom-quark pair at a hadron collider. We take the approximations of leading colour and work in the five flavour scheme, where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Simon Badger , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Jakub Kryś , Simone Zoia

We compute the leading colour contributions to five-gluon scattering at two loops in massless QCD. The integrands of all independent helicity amplitudes are evaluated using d-dimensional generalised unitarity cuts and finite field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Tiziano Peraro