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We present the first benchmark evaluation of the two-loop finite remainders for the production of a top-quark pair in association with a jet at hadron colliders in the gluon channel. We work in the leading colour approximation, and perform…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-14 Simon Badger , Matteo Becchetti , Colomba Brancaccio , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Simone Zoia

Knowledge of two-loop QCD amplitudes for processes $q\bar q \to V_1 V_2 \to (l_1\bar l'_1)(l_2 \bar l'_2)$ is important for improving the theoretical description of four-lepton production in hadron collisions. In this paper we compute these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Fabrizio Caola , Johannes M. Henn , Kirill Melnikov , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

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 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

In the limit where partons become collinear to each other, scattering amplitudes factorize into a product of universal, process-independent building blocks and scattering amplitudes involving fewer partons. We compute these universal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-07 Xin Guan , Franz Herzog , Yao Ma , Bernhard Mistlberger , Adi Suresh

We present the leading-color two-loop QCD corrections for Higgs-boson production in association with two jets through gluon fusion in the heavy-top effective theory. We provide analytic expressions for the finite remainders of the helicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Viktor Kuschke , Michael Ruf , Vasily Sotnikov

The self-couplings of the electroweak gauge bosons are probed at hadron colliders through the production of a massive gauge boson and a photon. To extend the theoretical description of this type of final states towards…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-09 Thomas Gehrmann , Lorenzo Tancredi

We compute the two-loop QED helicity amplitudes for the scattering of a lepton pair with an off-shell and an on-shell photon, $0\to\ell\bar\ell\gamma\gamma^*$, using the approximation of massless leptons. We express all master integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-10 Simon Badger , Jakub Kryś , Ryan Moodie , Simone Zoia

We present an analytic expression for the six-point all-plus helicity amplitude in QCD at two-loops. We compute the rational terms in a compact analytic form organised by their singularity structure.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-10 David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins

We report on the advances in the calculation of the two-loop scattering amplitudes for five-particle processes with one off-shell leg. Focusing on the production of a Higgs boson in association with a bottom quark pair, we outline how the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Jakub Kryś

We compute the two-loop Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) corrections to all partonic channels relevant for the production of an electroweak boson $V=Z,W^\pm,\gamma^*$ and a jet at hadron colliders. We consider the decay of a vector boson $V$ to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-21 Thomas Gehrmann , Petr Jakubčík , Cesare Carlo Mella , Nikolaos Syrrakos , Lorenzo Tancredi

We present analytical results for all six-photon helicity amplitudes. For the computation of this loop induced process two recently developed methods, based on form factor decomposition and on multiple cuts, have been used. We obtain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Binoth , T. Gehrmann , G. Heinrich , P. Mastrolia

We present the first full analytic evaluation of the scattering amplitude for the process $q {\bar q} \to Q {\bar Q}$ up-to two loops in Quantum Chromodynamics, for a massless $(q)$ and a massive $(Q)$ quark flavour. The interference terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 Manoj K. Mandal , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Jonathan Ronca , William J. Torres Bobadilla

We calculate the one-loop QCD virtual corrections to all helicity amplitudes for parton level virtual Compton scattering processes. We include the amplitudes both on quark target process $\gamma^* q\to\gamma q$ and on gluon target process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 H. W. Huang , T. Morii

We compute the one-loop corrections to \tth up to order $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2)$ in the dimensional regularization parameter. We apply the projector method to compute polarized amplitudes, which generalize massless helicity amplitudes to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-18 Federico Buccioni , Philipp Alexander Kreer , Xiao Liu , Lorenzo Tancredi

We present an alternative method to calculate cross sections for multi-parton scattering processes in the Standard Model at leading order. The helicity amplitudes are computed using recursion relations in the number of particles, based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Costas G. Papadopoulos , Malgorzata Worek

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 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

Splitting amplitudes are universal functions governing the collinear behavior of scattering amplitudes for massless particles. We compute the two-loop g -> gg splitting amplitudes in QCD, N=1, and N=4 super-Yang-Mills theories, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-25 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

We study the QCD scattering amplitudes for \bar{q}q \to gg and \bar{q}q \to ggg where q is a massive fermion. Using a particular choice of massive fermion spinor we are able to derive very compact expressions for the partial spin amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 K. J. Ozeren , W. J. Stirling