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We compute the two-loop corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the coupling of a massive vector boson to a massless quark-antiquark pair and a gluon, accounting for vector and axial-vector couplings of the vector boson and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-19 Thomas Gehrmann , Tiziano Peraro , Lorenzo Tancredi

We compute the helicity amplitudes for the processes $gg\to Zg$ and $gg\to Z\gamma$ to two loops in massless QCD. The perturbative expansion of these processes starts only at the one-loop level, such that our results are a crucial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-21 Thomas Gehrmann , Lorenzo Tancredi , Erich Weihs

We present the first full analytic evaluation of the scattering amplitude for the process $q {\bar q} \to Q {\bar Q}$ up-to two loops in Quantum Chromodynamics, for a massless $(q)$ and a massive $(Q)$ quark flavour. The interference terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 Manoj K. Mandal , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Jonathan Ronca , William J. Torres Bobadilla

Theoretical predictions for Bhabha scattering at the two-loop level require the inclusion of hadronic vacuum polarization in the photon propagator. We present predictions for the contributions from reducible amplitudes which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Johann H. Kühn , Sandro Uccirati

We compute the leading colour contributions to five-gluon scattering at two loops in massless QCD. The integrands of all independent helicity amplitudes are evaluated using d-dimensional generalised unitarity cuts and finite field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Tiziano Peraro

We review the current status of high-multiplicity double-virtual QCD corrections to processes relevant for LHC phenomenology. In particular, we discuss the recent full-color calculation of the five-parton process, whose two-loop amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-27 Giuseppe De Laurentis

We compute the one-loop corrections to \tth up to order $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2)$ in the dimensional regularization parameter. We apply the projector method to compute polarized amplitudes, which generalize massless helicity amplitudes to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-18 Federico Buccioni , Philipp Alexander Kreer , Xiao Liu , Lorenzo Tancredi

Two-loop four-gluon N=4 susy amplitudes are evaluated via cutting techniques as a testing ground for QCD. A conjecture for four-point amplitudes to all loop orders is described. We also present a new conjecture for the leading-color part of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Z. Bern , J. Rozowsky , B. Yan

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

The MHV scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM are dual to bosonic light-like Wilson loops. We explore various proposals for extending this duality to generic non-MHV amplitudes. The corresponding dual object should have the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 A. V. Belitsky , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We here use our non-perturbative, cluster decomposable relativistic scattering formalism to calculate photon-spinor scattering, including the related particle-antiparticle annihilation amplitude. We start from a three-body system in which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 James Lindesay , H. Pierre Noyes

We present recent advancements in the computation of three-loop four-particle helicity amplitudes in full-color massless QCD. In this contribution, we focus on the $gg \to \gamma\gamma$ process. We show how to obtain compact analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Piotr Bargiela

Recently, the spinor helicity formalism and on-shell superspace were developed for six-dimensional gauge theories with (1,1) supersymmetry. We combine these two techniques with (generalised) unitarity, which is a powerful technique to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Andreas Brandhuber , Dimitrios Korres , Daniel Koschade , Gabriele Travaglini

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

For scattering amplitudes in strong background fields, it is -- at least in principle -- possible to perturbatively expand the background to obtain higher-point vacuum amplitudes. In the case of self-dual plane wave backgrounds we consider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Tim Adamo , Anton Ilderton , Alexander J. MacLeod

We compute a complete set of independent leading-color two-loop five-parton amplitudes in QCD. These constitute a fundamental ingredient for the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to three-jet production at hadron colliders. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-09 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , B. Page , V. Sotnikov

We present the first numerical results for the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of four partons and a W-boson in QCD. We use a finite field sampling method to reduce directly from Feynman diagrams to the coefficients of a set…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-01 Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Tiziano Peraro

We compute the planar part of the two-loop five gluon amplitude with all helicities positive. To perform the calculation we develop a D-dimensional generalized unitarity procedure allowing us to reconstruct the amplitude by cutting into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-21 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

We combine the unitarity method with the six-dimensional helicity formalism of Cheung and O'Connell to construct loop-level scattering amplitudes. As a first example, we construct dimensionally regularized QCD one-loop four-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang , Harald Ita

The spinor-helicity formalism has proven to be very efficient in the calculation of scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory, while the loop tree duality (LTD) representation of multi-loop integrals exhibits appealing and interesting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-27 Felix Driencourt-Mangin , German Rodrigo , German F. R. Sborlini , William J. Torres Bobadilla