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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 two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of two gluons into two gluons in QCD, which are relevant for next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to jet production at hadron colliders. We give the results in the `t…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Zvi Bern , Abilio De Freitas , Lance Dixon

We present a method for the integrand-level reduction of two-loop helicity amplitudes in both $d=4-2\epsilon$ and $d=4$ dimensions. The amplitude is expressed in terms of a set of Feynman integrals and their coefficients that depend on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-14 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Dhimiter Canko , Costas Papadopoulos , Aris Spourdalakis

The self-couplings of the electroweak gauge bosons are probed at hadron colliders through the production of a massive gauge boson and a photon. To extend the theoretical description of this type of final states towards…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-09 Thomas Gehrmann , Lorenzo Tancredi

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

We compute all helicity amplitudes for the scattering of five partons in two-loop QCD in all the relevant flavor configurations, retaining all contributing color structures. We employ tensor projection to obtain helicity amplitudes in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-01 Bakul Agarwal , Federico Buccioni , Federica Devoto , Giulio Gambuti , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

We present analytical results for all six-photon helicity amplitudes. For the computation of this loop induced process two recently developed methods, based on form factor decomposition and on multiple cuts, have been used. We obtain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Binoth , T. Gehrmann , G. Heinrich , P. Mastrolia

We discuss the calculation of two-loop helicity amplitudes for quark-quark scattering in QCD and four-gluino scattering in N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We study the dependence of the results on different variants of dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. De Freitas , Z. Bern

We present advances in the development of the numerical unitarity method for the computation of multi-loop amplitudes in QCD. As an application, we show results for all the leading-color two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitudes. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-26 Samuel Abreu , Fernando Febres Cordero , Harald Ita , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

Inelastic QED processes, the cross sections of which do not drop with increasing energy, play an important role at high-energy colliders. Such reactions have the form of two-jet processes with the exchange of a virtual photon in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 C. Carimalo , A. Schiller , V. G. Serbo

We present the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for quark-quark and quark-antiquark scattering. These amplitudes are relevant for next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to (polarized) jet production at hadron colliders. We give the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-27 Abilio De Freitas , Zvi Bern

An overview of the calculation of the two-loop helicity amplitudes for scattering of two gluons into two photons is presented. These matrix elements enter into the recent improved calculation of the QCD background to Higgs boson decay into…

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

We calculate the complete set of two-loop leading-colour QCD helicity amplitudes for $\gamma \gamma j$-production at hadron colliders. Our results are presented in a compact, fully-analytical form.

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

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

We present the analytic form of all leading-color two-loop five-parton helicity amplitudes in QCD. The results are analytically reconstructed from exact numerical evaluations over finite fields. Combining a judicious choice of variables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-23 S. Abreu , J. Dormans , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , B. Page , V. Sotnikov

We study two-loop corrections to the scattering amplitude of four massive leptons in quantum electrodynamics. These amplitudes involve previously unknown elliptic Feynman integrals, which we compute analytically using the differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-14 Maximilian Delto , Claude Duhr , Lorenzo Tancredi , Yu Jiao Zhu

The recent experimental observation of Light-by-Light (LbL) scattering at the Large Hadron Collider has revived interest in this fundamental process, and especially of the accurate prediction of its cross-section, which we present here for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-12 Ajjath A H , Ekta Chaubey , Mathijs Fraaije , Valentin Hirschi , Hua-Sheng Shao

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

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

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