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We present the O(alpha_s^4) virtual QCD corrections to gluon-gluon scattering due to the interference of tree and two-loop amplitudes. We work in conventional dimensional regularisation and give analytic expressions renormalised in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 E. W. N. Glover , C. Oleari , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

We present three-loop helicity amplitudes for the production of a single photon in association with one jet in Quantum Chromodynamics, a final state which provides a standard candle of the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Piotr Bargiela , Amlan Chakraborty , Giulio Gambuti

A method to efficiently compute, in a automatic way, helicity amplitudes for arbitrary scattering processes at leading order in the Standard Model is presented. The scattering amplitude is evaluated recursively through a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Costas G. Papadopoulos , Malgorzata Worek

We present recent developments on the topic of the integrand reduction of scattering amplitudes. Integrand-level methods allow to express an amplitude as a linear combination of Master Integrals, by performing operations on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-06 Hans van Deurzen , Gionata Luisoni , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Edoardo Mirabella , Giovanni Ossola , Tiziano Peraro , Ulrich Schubert

We compute two-loop helicity amplitudes in QCD for diphoton production through quark- and gluon-initiated channels, accounting for a massive internal quark loop by keeping its full mass dependence. Using physical projectors, we directly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-06 Taushif Ahmed , Amlan Chakraborty , Ekta Chaubey , Mandeep Kaur

I have evaluated up to 1100 digits of precision the contribution of the 891 4-loop Feynman diagrams contributing to the electron $g$-$2$ in QED. The total mass-independent 4-loop contribution is $ a_e =…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Stefano Laporta

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

A simple algorithm is presented to decompose any 1-loop amplitude for scattering processes of the class 2 fermions -> 4 fermions into a fixed number of gauge-invariant form factors. The structure of the amplitude is simpler than in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandro Vicini

We compute helicity amplitudes for the one-loop QCD corrections to top-quark pair production analytically in terms of a set of uniformly transcendental master integrals. We provide corrections up to $O(\epsilon^2)$ in the dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-29 Simon Badger , Matteo Becchetti , Ekta Chaubey , Robin Marzucca , Francesco Sarandrea

We calculate three-loop photon spectral density in QED with $N$ different species of electrons. The obtained results were expressed in terms of iterated integrals, which are either reduce to Goncharov's polylogarithms or can be written in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-08 A. I. Onishchenko

We present the two-loop virtual QCD corrections to the scattering of massless distinct quarks in conventional dimensional regularisation. The structure of the infrared divergences agrees with that predicted by Catani while expressions for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Anastasiou , E. W. N. Glover , C. Oleari , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

We show how studying leading singularities of Feynman diagrams, when all momenta are complex, gives a simple way of writing multi-loop and multi-particle scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. The simplicity of the method is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-03-14 Freddy Cachazo

We present the two-loop virtual QCD corrections to the scattering of massless identical quarks, q qbar to q qbar, in conventional dimensional regularisation and using the MSbar scheme. The structure of the infrared divergences agrees with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Anastasiou , E. W. N. Glover , C. Oleari , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

The Drell-Yan mechanism for the production of lepton pairs is one of the most basic processes for physics studies at hadron colliders. It is therefore important to have accurate theoretical predictions. In this work we compute the two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 William B. Kilgore , Christian Sturm

We describe a constructive procedure to separate overlapping infrared divergences in multi-loop integrals. Working with a parametric representation in D=4-2*epsilon dimensions, adequate subtractions lead to a Laurent series in epsilon,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Binoth , G. Heinrich

We compute all helicity amplitudes for four-particle scattering in massless QCD with $n_f$ fermion flavours to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbation theory. In particular, we consider all possible configurations of external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-23 Taushif Ahmed , Johannes Henn , Bernhard Mistlberger

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes contributing to the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD predictions for W-boson production in association with two photons at the Large Hadron Collider. We derived compact analytic expressions for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-27 Simon Badger , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Zihao Wu , Yang Zhang , Simone Zoia

We present the one-loop QCD amplitudes for two external massless quarks and three external gluons ($\bar{q}qggg$). This completes the set of one-loop amplitudes needed for the next-to-leading-order corrections to three-jet production at…

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

In this work, we consider scattering amplitudes relevant for high-precision Large Hadron Collider (LHC) phenomenology. We analyse the general structure of amplitudes, and we review state-of-the-art methods for computing them. We discuss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-14 Piotr Bargiela

We link the FDR treatment of ultraviolet (UV) divergences to dimensional regularization up to two loops in QCD. This allows us to derive the one-loop and two-loop coupling constant and quark mass shifts necessary to translate infrared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-01 Ben Page , Roberto Pittau