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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

We suggest a new approach for the automatic and fully numerical evaluation of one-loop scattering amplitudes in perturbative quantum field theory. We use suitably formulated dispersion relations to perform the calculation as a convolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-09-29 M. Moretti , F. Piccinini , A. D. Polosa

We give an explicit recursive formula for the all L-loop integrand for scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM in the planar limit, manifesting the full Yangian symmetry of the theory. This generalizes the BCFW recursion relation for tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Simon Caron-Huot , Jaroslav Trnka

We present recent advancements in the computation of three-loop four-particle helicity amplitudes in full-color massless QCD. In this contribution, we focus on the $gg \to \gamma\gamma$ process. We show how to obtain compact analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Piotr Bargiela

We develop a manifestly supersymmetric version of the generalized unitarity cut method for calculating scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory. We illustrate the power of this method by computing the one-loop n-point NMHV super-amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

The unitarity method for calculating one-loop amplitudes provides algorithms of polynomial complexity. This is primarily beneficial for the computation of multi-leg one loop amplitudes and it is therefore of great interest to develop a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-14 R. Keith Ellis , Walter T. Giele , Zoltan Kunszt

The use of complex analysis for computing one-loop scattering amplitudes is naturally induced by generalised unitarity-cut conditions, fulfilled by complex values of the loop variable. We report on two techniques: the cut-integration with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We describe a systematic approach for the evaluation of Witten diagrams for multi-loop scattering amplitudes of a conformally coupled scalar $\phi^4$-theory in Euclidean AdS$_4$, by recasting the Witten diagrams as flat space Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Till Heckelbacher , Ivo Sachs , Evgeny Skvortsov , Pierre Vanhove

We present the integrand reduction via multivariate polynomial division as a natural technique to encode the unitarity conditions of Feynman amplitudes. We derive a recursive formula for the integrand reduction, valid for arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella , G. Ossola , T. Peraro

We show how to extract the coefficients of the 4-, 3-, 2- and 1-point one-loop scalar integrals from the full one-loop amplitude of arbitrary scattering processes. In a similar fashion, also the rational terms can be derived. Basically no…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Giovanni Ossola , Costas G. Papadopoulos , Roberto Pittau

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

Recently, a new construction for complete loop integrands of massless field theories has been proposed, with on-shell tree-level amplitudes delicately incorporated into its algorithm. This new approach reinterprets integrands in a novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-28 Rijun Huang , Qingjun Jin , Junjie Rao , Kang Zhou , Bo Feng

Scattering amplitudes at loop level can be expressed in terms of Feynman integrals. The latter satisfy partial differential equations in the kinematical variables. We argue that a good choice of basis for (multi-)loop integrals can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-26 Johannes M. Henn

We derive the full system of canonical differential equations for all planar two-loop massless six-particle master integrals, and determine analytically the boundary conditions. This fully specifies the solutions, which may be written as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-20 Johannes Henn , Antonela Matijašić , Julian Miczajka , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Yang Zhang

Splitting amplitudes govern the behavior of scattering amplitudes at the momenta of external legs become collinear. In this talk we outline the calculation of two-loop splitting amplitudes via the unitarity sewing method. This method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. J. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

We introduce a constructive method for defining a global loop-integrand basis for scattering amplitudes, encompassing both planar and nonplanar contributions. Our approach utilizes a graph-based framework to establish a well-defined,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-26 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

We compute the three-loop corrections to the helicity amplitudes for $q\bar{q}\to Q\bar{Q}$ scattering in massless QCD. In the Lorentz decomposition of the scattering amplitude we avoid evanescent Lorentz structures and map the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-06 Fabrizio Caola , Amlan Chakraborty , Giulio Gambuti , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

We calculate field theory loop amplitudes by string methods, applied to half-maximal 4-point one-loop graviton amplitudes. Infrared divergences are regulated similarly to soft-collinear effective field theory (SCET): new mass scales are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Marcus Berg , Michael Haack , Yonatan Zimmerman

We introduce a formalism for describing four-dimensional scattering amplitudes for particles of any mass and spin. This naturally extends the familiar spinor-helicity formalism for massless particles to one where these variables carry an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Tzu-Chen Huang , Yu-tin Huang

Over the past two years, the use of on-shell techniques has deepened our understanding of the S-matrix of gauge theories and led to the calculation of many new scattering amplitudes. In these notes we review a particular on-shell method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini