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We review recent progress on the calculation of scattering amplitudes in the high-energy limit. We start by illustrating the shockwave formalism, which allows one to calculate amplitudes as iterated solutions of rapidity evolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-10 Leonardo Vernazza , Giulio Falcioni , Einan Gardi , Niamh Maher , Calum Milloy

We review the extension of modern techniques for the calculation of helicity amplitudes in QCD to massive particles. The focus is on the use of supersymmetric Ward identites that relate amplitudes with massive quarks to those with massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rutger Boels , Christian Schwinn , Stefan Weinzierl

We present a definition of the four-dimensional helicity (FDH) regularization scheme valid for two or more loops. This scheme was previously defined and utilized at one loop. It amounts to a variation on the standard 't Hooft-Veltman scheme…

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

We report on the calculation of the two-loop penguin amplitudes in non-leptonic B decays in the framework of QCD factorization. We discuss the computation of this genuine two-loop, two-scale problem and provide details on the matching from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-19 Guido Bell , Martin Beneke , Tobias Huber , Xin-Qiang Li

While the QED photon amplitudes at full momentum so far have been calculated only up to the six-photon level, in the low-energy limit there are explicit formulas for all helicity components even at the N-photon level, obtained by Martin et…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Naser Ahmadiniaz , Misha A. Lopez-Lopez , Christian Schubert

We use the worldline path integral approach to the Bern-Kosower formalism for extending this formalism to the calculation of higher order corrections to N - photon scattering. The case of the two-loop QED beta-function is considered in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 M. G. Schmidt , C. Schubert

We complete the computation of two-loop helicity amplitudes required to obtain next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections for three-jet production at hadron colliders, including all contributions beyond the leading-color approximation.…

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

We propose an effectively nonperturbative approach to calculating scattering amplitudes in the perturbative regime. We do this in a discretized momentum space by using the QSE method to calculate all the contributions (to all orders in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-20 Neil Christensen , Joshua Henderson , Santiago Pinto , Cory Russ

As continuation of our previous paper we further develop our new method for calculating helicity amplitudes of jet-like QED processes described by tree diagrams, applying it to lepton pair production. This method consists in replacing…

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

We investigate generic properties of one-loop amplitudes in unordered gauge theories in four dimensions. For such theories the organisation of amplitudes in manifestly crossing symmetric expressions poses restrictions on their structure and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-03 Simon Badger , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Pierre Vanhove

Using four-dimensional unitarity and MHV-rules we calculate the one-loop MHV amplitudes with all external particles in the adjoint representation for N=2 supersymmetric QCD with N_f fundamental flavours. We start by considering such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 E. W. Nigel Glover , Valentin V. Khoze , Ciaran Williams

I discuss the status of the computation of the two-loop QCD corrections to top-quark pair production associated with a jet at hadron colliders. This amplitude is a missing ingredient for next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD predictions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 Colomba Brancaccio

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

This is the second one of a series of four papers devoted to a first calculation of the scalar and spinor QED four-photon amplitudes completely off-shell. We use the worldline formalism which provides a gauge-invariant decomposition for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Naser Ahmadiniaz , Cristhiam Lopez-Arcos , Misha A. Lopez-Lopez , Christian Schubert

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

Knowledge of two-loop QCD amplitudes for processes $q\bar q \to V_1 V_2 \to (l_1\bar l'_1)(l_2 \bar l'_2)$ is important for improving the theoretical description of four-lepton production in hadron collisions. In this paper we compute these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Fabrizio Caola , Johannes M. Henn , Kirill Melnikov , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We compute the two-loop massless QCD corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the production of two massive vector bosons in quark-antiquark annihilation, allowing for an arbitrary virtuality of the vector bosons: $q \bar q' \to V_1V_2$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Thomas Gehrmann , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

The two-loop Euler-Heisenberg-type effective action for N = 1 supersymmetric QED is computed within the background field approach. The background vector multiplet is chosen to obey the constraints D_\a W_\b = D_{(\a} W_{\b)} = const, but is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Simon J. Tyler

We present a new method for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory. It extends the Generalized Unitarity method by constraining not only the integrand of the amplitude but also its full integrated form. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Piotr Bargiela

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