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We describe the unitarity approach for the numerical computation of two-loop integral coefficients of scattering amplitudes. It is well known that the leading propagator singularities of an amplitude's integrand are related to products of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-07 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Jaquier , B. Page

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 find that scattering amplitudes in massive scalar QCD can manifest the duality between color and kinematics at loop-level. Specifically we construct the one-loop integrands for four-point scattering between two distinct massive scalars,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-10 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Ingrid A. Vazquez-Holm

Using the integrability conditions that we recently obtained in QCD$_2$ with massless fermions, we arrive at a sufficient number of conservation laws to be able to fix the scattering amplitudes involving a local version of the Wilson loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Abdalla , M. C. B. Abdalla

I present the computation of the two-loop amplitudes for the scattering of a lepton pair with an off-shell and an on-shell photon in massless QED. We apply modern techniques developed to tackle QCD amplitudes with many scales: we express…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Simone Zoia

For Z -> b bbar, we calculate all the two-loop top dependent Feynman graphs, which have mixed QCD and electroweak contributions that are not factorizable. For evaluating the graphs, without resorting to a mass expansion, we apply a two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Adrian Ghinculov , York-Peng Yao

We obtain a simple relation between massless and massive scattering amplitudes in gauge theories in the limit where all kinematic invariants are large compared to particle masses. We use this relation to derive the two-loop QED corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Thomas Becher , Kirill Melnikov

We calculate all planar contributions to the two-loop massless helicity amplitudes for the process $q\bar q\to \gamma\gamma\gamma$. The results are presented in fully analytic form in terms of the functional basis proposed recently by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-25 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov , Rene Poncelet

We solve the integration-by-parts (IBP) identities needed for the computation of any planar two-loop five-point massless amplitude in QCD. We also derive some new results for the most complicated non-planar topology with irreducible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-13 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Matthew A. Lim , Alexander Mitov

We study the singularity structure of two-loop QED amplitudes for the production of multiple off-shell photons in massless electron-positron annihilation and develop counterterms that remove their infrared and ultraviolet divergences point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-26 Charalampos Anastasiou , Rayan Haindl , George Sterman , Zhou Yang , Mao Zeng

We evaluate the on shell form factors of the electron for arbitrary momentum transfer and finite electron mass, at two loops in QED, by integrating the corresponding dispersion relations, which involve the imaginary parts known since a long…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Mastrolia , E. Remiddi

We calculate the massive two--loop pure singlet Wilson coefficients for heavy quark production in the unpolarized case analytically in the whole kinematic region and derive the threshold and asymptotic expansions. We also recalculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-12 J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , C. G. Raab , K. Schönwald

We calculate the inelastic $2\to3$ one-loop amplitude for the scattering of two point-like, spinless objects with generic masses involving the additional emission of a single graviton. We focus on the near-forward, or classical, limit. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Alessandro Georgoudis , Carlo Heissenberg , Ingrid Vazquez-Holm

We present the analytic and compact two-loop helicity amplitudes for QCD and QED corrections to the light-by-light scattering process with massive internal fermions. We express the master integrals either in terms of multiple polylogarithms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Ajjath A H , Ekta Chaubey , Hua-Sheng Shao

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 report on recent results on the two-mass corrections for massive operator matrix elements at 2- and 3-loop orders in QCD. These corrections form the building blocks of the variable flavor number scheme. Due to the similar values of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-23 J. Ablinger , J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , A. Goedicke , C. Schneider , K. Schönwald

We complete the analytic evaluation of the master integrals for the two-loop non-planar box diagrams contributing to the top-pair production in the quark-initiated channel, at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The integrals are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-12 Stefano Di Vita , Thomas Gehrmann , Stefano Laporta , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Amedeo Primo , Ulrich Schubert

The calculation of exclusive observables beyond the one-loop level requires elaborate techniques for the computation of multi-leg two-loop integrals. We discuss how the large number of different integrals appearing in actual two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Gehrmann , E. Remiddi

We compute the symbol of the two-loop five-point scattering amplitude in $\mathcal{N}$ = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including its full color dependence. This requires constructing the symbol of all two-loop five-point nonplanar massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Samuel Abreu , Lance J. Dixon , Enrico Herrmann , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

We compute the full set of two-loop Feynman integrals appearing in massless two-loop four-point functions with two off-shell legs with the same invariant mass. These integrals allow to determine the two-loop corrections to the amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-13 Thomas Gehrmann , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi , Erich Weihs