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We discuss the calculation of one-loop amplitudes in N=8 supergravity using MHV diagrams. In contrast to MHV amplitudes of gluons in Yang-Mills, tree-level MHV amplitudes of gravitons are not holomorphic in the spinor variables. In order to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Adele Nasti , Gabriele Travaglini

We develop an algorithm of polynomial complexity for evaluating one-loop amplitudes with an arbitrary number of external particles. The algorithm is implemented in the Rocket program. Starting from particle vertices given by Feynman rules,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-05 W. T. Giele , G. Zanderighi

We show how all non-MHV tree-level amplitudes in 0 =< N =< 4 gauge theories can be obtained directly from the known MHV amplitudes using the scalar graph approach of Cachazo, Svrcek and Witten. Generic amplitudes are given by sums of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 George Georgiou , E. W. N. Glover , Valentin V. Khoze

We use the infrared consistency of one-loop amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory to derive a compact analytic formula for a tree-level NNMHV gluon scattering amplitude in QCD, the first such formula known. We argue that the IR conditions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Radu Roiban , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

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

We derive a new Minkowski space action for the pure gluonic sector of QCD that implements new interaction vertices local in the light-cone time with at least four legs and fixed helicities - the lowest vertex is the four-point MHV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 Hiren Kakkad

Given the Hamiltonian, the evaluation of unitary operators has been at the heart of many quantum algorithms. Motivated by existing deterministic and random methods, we present a hybrid approach, where Hamiltonians with large amplitude are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-17 Shi Jin , Xiantao Li

The simulation of quantum dynamics calls for quantum algorithms working in first quantized grid encodings. Here, we propose a variational quantum algorithm for performing quantum dynamics in first quantization. In addition to the usual…

We present a technique which utilizes unitarity and collinear limits to construct ansatze for one-loop amplitudes in gauge theory. As an example, we obtain the one-loop contribution to amplitudes for $n$ gluon scattering in $N=4$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. C. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

Two new formulas which express n-graviton MHV tree amplitudes in terms of sums of squares of n-gluon amplitudes are discussed. The first formula is derived from recursion relations. The second formula, simpler because it involves fewer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-19 Henriette Elvang , Daniel Z. Freedman

Using CSW rules for constructing scalar Feynman diagrams from MHV vertices, we compute the contribution of $\mathcal {N}=1$ chiral multiplet to one-loop MHV gluon amplitude. The result agrees with the one obtained previously using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Callum Quigley , Moshe Rozali

The interpretation of measurements of high-energy particle collisions relies heavily on the performance of full event generators. By far the largest amount of time to predict the kinematics of multi-particle final states is dedicated to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Khadeejah Bepari , Sarah Malik , Michael Spannowsky , Simon Williams

The scattering equation formalism is a general framework for calculation of amplitudes in theories of massless particles. We provide a detailed introduction to the 4D scattering equation framework accessible to non-experts, outline current…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-29 Joseph A. Farrow

It is shown how tree-level multi-gluon helicity amplitudes with an arbitrary number of off-shell external gluons can be calculated via BCFW recursion. Compact expressions for helicity amplitudes for scattering processes of three and four…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 A. van Hameren

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

Variational quantum algorithms use non-convex optimization methods to find the optimal parameters for a parametrized quantum circuit in order to solve a computational problem. The choice of the circuit ansatz, which consists of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Roeland Wiersema , Dylan Lewis , David Wierichs , Juan Carrasquilla , Nathan Killoran

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 discuss a new classical action that enables efficient computation of the gluonic tree amplitudes but does not contain any triple point vertices. This new formulation is obtained via a canonical transformation of the light-cone Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-08 Hiren Kakkad , Piotr Kotko , Anna Stasto

We present a new method for computing complete one-loop amplitudes, including their rational parts, in non-supersymmetric gauge theory. This method merges the unitarity method with on-shell recursion relations. It systematizes a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

In this paper we define, independent of theories, two discriminant matrices involving a solution to the scattering equations in four dimensions, the ranks of which are used to divide the solution set into a disjoint union of subsets. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-18 Yi-Jian Du , Fei Teng , Yong-Shi Wu