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We highlight the latest developments in computing higher-order scattering amplitudes with massive internal propagators. The contributing Feynman integrals often lead to special classes of functions, for example, functions associated with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-26 Ekta Chaubey

We compute theoretical predictions for the production of a W-boson in association with a bottom-quark pair at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, including the leptonic decay of the W-boson, while treating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-17 Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Rene Poncelet , Andrei Popescu , Simone Zoia

Charged gauge boson pair production at the Large Hadron Collider allows detailed probes of the fundamental structure of electroweak interactions. We present precise theoretical predictions for on-shell $W^+W^-$ production that include, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-26 T. Gehrmann , M. Grazzini , S. Kallweit , P. Maierhöfer , A. von Manteuffel , S. Pozzorini , D. Rathlev , L. Tancredi

We present a precise and efficient computation of the two-loop amplitudes entering the Higgs boson pair production process via gluon fusion. Our approach is based on the small-Higgs-mass expansion while keeping the full dependence on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-29 Guoxing Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Xiaofeng Xu , Yongqi Xu , Li Lin Yang

We analytically compute the four-loop QCD corrections for the colour structure $(d_F^{abcd})^2$ to the massless non-singlet quark form factor. The computation involves non-trivial non-planar integral families which have master integrals in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Roman N. Lee , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Matthias Steinhauser

A summary is presented of the most recent matrix elements for massless 2 to 2 scattering processes calculated at two loops in QCD perturbation theory together with a brief review on the calculational methods and techniques used.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Maria Elena Tejeda-Yeomans

We present a systematic framework for the maximally-transcendental part of planar QCD scattering amplitudes and perform the first bootstrap computation of six-gluon MHV amplitudes in massless QCD at the symbol level. By analyzing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Sérgio Carrôlo , Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Qinglin Yang , Yang Zhang

I discuss the recent advances in the computation of two-loop scattering amplitudes for five-particle processes. The latter are fundamental ingredients to obtain predictions at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD for many…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-09 Simone Zoia

We examine maximal unitarity in the nonplanar case and derive remarkably compact analytic expressions for coefficients of master integrals with two-loop crossed box topology in massless four-point amplitudes in any gauge theory, thereby…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-18 Mads Sogaard

We present numerical results for the two-loop virtual amplitude entering the NNLO corrections to Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair at the LHC, focusing, as a proof of concept of our method, on the part of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 Bakul Agarwal , Gudrun Heinrich , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Sven Yannick Klein , Jannis Lang , Vitaly Magerya , Anton Olsson

The amplitude for the collision of two hadrons with the lowest order pomeron loop is calculated. Numerical calculations show that the loop contribution to the amplitude begins to dominate the single pomeron exchange at rapidities 8-10. Full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 M. A. Braun , A. N. Tarasov

We present complete analytical ${\mathcal O}(\epsilon^2)$ results on the one-loop amplitudes relevant for the NNLO quark-parton model description of the hadroproduction of heavy quarks as given by the so-called loop-by-loop contributions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-16 J. G. Körner , Z. Merebashvili , M. Rogal

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

In this paper we calculate at high-precision the Laurent expansions in e=(4-D)/2 of the 17 master integrals which appeared in the analytical calculation of 3-loop QED contribution to the electron g-2, using difference and differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. Laporta

We present the universal two-loop splitting functions that describe the limits of two-loop $n$-point amplitudes of massless particles when two of the momenta are collinear. To derive the splitting amplitudes, we take the collinear limits of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. D. Badger , E. W. N. Glover

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

I review the status of the calculation of two-loop QCD corrections to non-leptonic B-decays in the framework of QCD factorisation. In the case of heavy-to-light decays I will cover the leading penguin amplitudes a_4^u and a_4^c. For…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-15 Tobias Huber

We present a method for the integrand-level reduction of two-loop helicity amplitudes in both $d=4-2\epsilon$ and $d=4$ dimensions. The amplitude is expressed in terms of a set of Feynman integrals and their coefficients that depend on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-14 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Dhimiter Canko , Costas Papadopoulos , Aris Spourdalakis

We present an optimization of the reduction algorithm of one-loop amplitudes in terms of master integrals. It is based on the exploitation of the polynomial structure of the integrand when evaluated at values of the loop-momentum fulfilling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Mastrolia , G. Ossola , C. G. Papadopoulos , R. Pittau

Two-loop QCD correction to massive spin-2 Graviton decaying to $q ~ + ~ \bar{q}~ + ~g$ is presented considering a generic universal spin-2 coupling to the SM through the conserved energy-momentum tensor. Such a massive spin-2 particle can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Taushif Ahmed , Goutam Das , Prakash Mathews , Narayan Rana , V. Ravindran