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We propose a first implementation of the integrand-reduction method for two-loop scattering amplitudes. We show that the residues of the amplitudes on multi-particle cuts are polynomials in the irreducible scalar products involving the loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Giovanni Ossola

We propose new formulae for the two-loop n-point D-dimensional integrands of scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory and gravity. The loop integrands are written as a double-forward limit of tree-level trivalent diagrams, and are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Yvonne Geyer , Ricardo Monteiro , Ricardo Stark-Muchão

We derive analytic results for scalar massless bosonic vacuum sum-integrals at two loops. Building upon a recent factorization proof of massive two-loop vacuum integrals, we are able to solve the corresponding Matsubara sums and map the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Andrei I. Davydychev , Pablo Navarrete , York Schröder

We derive the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for the processes $l q \to l qg$ ($l \bar q \to l \bar q g$) and $l g \to l q\bar q$, which are the partonic reactions yielding $(2+1)$-jet final states in deep inelastic lepton nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover

We present the closed analytic expression of the form factors of the two-loop QED vertex amplitude for on-shell electrons of finite mass $m$ and arbitrary momentum transfer $S=-Q^2$. The calculation is carried out within the continuous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 R. Bonciani , P. Mastrolia , E. Remiddi

We overview the general status of higher order corrections to Bhabha scattering and review recent progress in the determination of the two-loop virtual corrections. Quite recently, they were derived from combining a massless calculation and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Czakon , J. Gluza , T. Riemann

The paper investigates contributions of $Z$, $W$ and $\gamma$ intermediate states to the parity-violating Moller scattering asymmetry up to two-loop level. Using the Yennie--Frautschi--Suura factorization form for amplitudes, we demonstrate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-03 A. G. Aleksejevs , S. G. Barkanova , Yu. M. Bystritskiy , A. N. Ilyichev , E. A. Kuraev , V. A. Zykunov

We compute the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of five gluons, including all contributions beyond the leading-color approximation. The analytic expressions are represented as linear combinations of transcendental functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Maximillian Klinkert , Vasily Sotnikov

In this talk, we review recent developments towards the calculation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes. In particular, we discuss how the colour-kinematics duality can provide new integral relations at one-loop level via the Loop-Tree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-10 William J. Torres Bobadilla

In this paper we reconsider the Cachazo-He-Yuan construction (CHY) of the so called scattering amplitudes at one-loop, in order to obtain quadratic propagators. In theories with colour ordering the key ingredient is the redefinition of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Humberto Gomez , Cristhiam Lopez-Arcos , Pedro Talavera

Dispersive representations of the pi-pi scattering amplitudes and pion form factors, valid at two-loop accuracy in the low-energy expansion, are constructed in the presence of isospin-breaking effects induced by the difference between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Descotes-Genon , M. Knecht

In this work, we calculate two-loop six-point planar massless Feynman integrals at higher orders in the dimensional regulator $\epsilon$, corresponding to higher transcendental weights. In previous works, these integrals were calculated up…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Yuanche Liu , Antonela Matijašić , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Zihua Yang , Yang Zhang

We evaluate analytically all previously unknown nonplanar master integrals for massless five-particle scattering at two loops, using the differential equations method. A canonical form of the differential equations is obtained by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-23 D. Chicherin , T. Gehrmann , J. M. Henn , P. Wasser , Y. Zhang , S. Zoia

The integrand-level methods for the reduction of scattering amplitudes are well-established techniques, which have already proven their effectiveness in several applications at one-loop. In addition to the automation and refinement of tools…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-05 P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella , G. Ossola , T. Peraro , H. van Deurzen

We analytically evaluate the master integrals for the second type of planar contributions to the massive two-loop Bhabha scattering in QED using differential equa- tions with canonical bases. We obtain results in terms of multiple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Claude Duhr , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Lorenzo Tancredi

We present the calculation of the master integrals needed for the two-loop QCDxEW corrections to $ q + \bar{q} \to l^- + l^+$ and $ q + \bar{q}' \to l^- + \overline{\nu} \, , $ for massless external particles. We treat W and Z bosons as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Roberto Bonciani , Stefano Di Vita , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Ulrich Schubert

Making use of conformal symmetry of large-$n_f$ QCD in $d=4-2\epsilon$ dimensions at the Wilson-Fischer fixed point, we calculate the two-loop coefficient functions in the operator product expansion of two electromagnetic currents in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-25 Vladimir M. Braun , Hua-Yu Jiang , Alexander N. Manashov , Andreas von Manteuffel

We evaluate analytically the master integrals for one of two types of planar families contributing to massive two-loop Bhabha scattering in QED. As in our previous paper, we apply a recently suggested new strategy to solve differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Johannes M. Henn , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We compute the two-loop QED helicity amplitudes for the scattering of a lepton pair with an off-shell and an on-shell photon, $0\to\ell\bar\ell\gamma\gamma^*$, using the approximation of massless leptons. We express all master integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-10 Simon Badger , Jakub Kryś , Ryan Moodie , Simone Zoia

A general one-loop scattering amplitude may be expanded in terms of master integrals. The coefficients of the master integrals can be obtained from tree-level input in a two-step process. First, use known formulas to write the coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-14 Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Gang Yang