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We present a novel set of Feynman rules and generalised unitarity cut-conditions for computing one-loop amplitudes via d-dimensional integrand reduction algorithm. Our algorithm is suited for analytic as well as numerical result, because…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-25 W. J. Torres Bobadilla , A. R. Fazio , P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella

We compute the one-loop QCD amplitudes for the decay of an off-shell vector boson with vector couplings into a quark-antiquark pair accompanied by two gluons keeping, for the first time, all orders in the number of colours. Together with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Campbell , E. W. N. Glover , D. J. Miller

We show that one-loop amplitudes in massless gauge theories can be determined from single cuts. By cutting a single propagator and putting it on-shell, the integrand of an n-point one-loop integral is transformed into an (n+2)-particle tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-25 E. W. Nigel Glover , Ciaran Williams

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

Recent progress in unitarity techniques for one-loop scattering amplitudes makes a numerical implementation of this method possible. We present a 4-dimensional unitarity method for calculating the cut-constructible part of amplitudes and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Z. Kunszt

In this talk we present techniques for calculating one-loop amplitudes for multi-leg processes using Feynman diagrammatic methods in a semi-algebraic context. Our approach combines the advantages of the different methods allowing for a fast…

The leading short-distance contributions to hadronic hard-scattering cross sections in the operator product expansion are described by twist-two quark and gluon operators. The anomalous dimensions of these operators determine the splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-02 Thomas Gehrmann , Andreas von Manteuffel , Tong-Zhi Yang

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

Recently the calculations of all five-parton one-loop QCD amplitudes have been completed. In this letter we describe how to get the corresponding amplitudes with one gluon replaced by a photon and we give the explicit results for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Adrian Signer

A way to efficiently compute helicity amplitudes for arbitrary tree-level scattering processes in QCD is presented. The scattering amplitude is evaluated recursively through a set of Dyson-Schwinger equations. The computational cost of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Costas G. Papadopoulos , Malgorzata Worek

Infrared divergences of QCD scattering amplitudes can be derived from an anomalous dimension matrix, which is also an essential ingredient for the resummation of large logarithms due to soft gluon emissions. We report a recent analytical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 A. Ferroglia , M. Neubert , B. D. Pecjak , L. L. Yang

We show, for previously uncalculated examples containing a uniform mass in the loop, that it is possible to obtain complete massive one-loop gauge theory amplitudes solely from unitarity and known ultraviolet or infrared mass singularities.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Bern , A. G. Morgan

We present the complete set of vertex, wave function and charge renormalisation constants in QCD in a general simple gauge group and with the complete dependence on the covariant gauge parameter $\xi$ in the minimal subtraction scheme of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-24 K. G. Chetyrkin , G. Falcioni , F. Herzog , J. A. M. Vermaseren

We show how generalised unitarity cuts in D = 4 - 2 epsilon dimensions can be used to calculate efficiently complete one-loop scattering amplitudes in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This approach naturally generates the rational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Simon McNamara , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

This article reviews on-shell methods for analytic computation of loop amplitudes, emphasizing techniques based on unitarity cuts. Unitarity techniques are formulated generally but have been especially useful for calculating one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Ruth Britto

We combine the six-dimensional helicity formalism of Cheung and O'Connell with D-dimensional generalized unitarity to obtain a new formalism for computing one-loop amplitudes in dimensionally regularized QCD. With this procedure, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Scott Davies

We consider UV divergences for the on-shell planar gluon-gluon scattering amplitudes in the gauge theory in arbitrary D-dimensions in the one-loop order. The amplitudes are evaluated using the standard Feynman diagram technique for several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 A. T. Borlakov , D. I. Kazakov

We compute the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for the process e^+e^- --> q bar{q} g. The amplitudes are extracted in a scheme-independent manner from the coefficients appearing in the general tensorial structure for this process. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 L. W. Garland , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , A. Koukoutsakis , E. Remiddi

A method is developed whereby spinor helicity techniques can be used to simplify the calculation of loop amplitudes. This is achieved by using the Feynman-parameter representation where the offending off-shell loop momenta do not appear.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 C. S. Lam