English
Related papers

Related papers: Two-loop amplitudes with nested sums: Fermionic co…

200 papers

Some of the tools and techniques that have recently been used to compute Higgs boson pair production at NLO in QCD are discussed. The calculation relies on the use of integral reduction, to reduce the number of integrals which must be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-15 S. P. Jones

We consider two-loop leading and next-to-leading logarithmic virtual corrections to arbitrary processes with external massless fermions in the electroweak Standard Model at energies well above the electroweak scale. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Denner , B. Jantzen , S. Pozzorini

This thesis is focused on the development of new mathematical methods for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in gauge theories. In this work we combine, for the first time, the unitarity-based construction for integrands, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-21 Ulrich Schubert

We present a semi-recursive method for calculating the rational parts of one-loop gravity amplitudes which utilises axial gauge diagrams to determine the non-factorising pieces of the amplitude. This method is used to compute the one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 David C. Dunbar , James H. Ettle , Warren B. Perkins

The structure of scattering amplitudes in supergravity theories continues to be of interest. Recently, the amplitude for $2\rightarrow 2$ scattering in ${\cal N}=8$ supergravity was presented at three-loop order for the first time. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-18 Paolo Di Vecchia , Andrés Luna , Stephen G. Naculich , Rodolfo Russo , Gabriele Veneziano , Chris D. White

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

Using an iterative solution of rapidity evolution equations, we compute partonic $2\to 2$ gauge theory amplitudes at four loops in full colour up to the Next-to-Next-to-Leading Logarithms (NNLL) in the Regge limit. By contrasting the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-08 Giulio Falcioni , Einan Gardi , Calum Milloy , Leonardo Vernazza

The existence of a finite basis of algebraically independent one-loop integrals has underpinned important developments in the computation of one-loop amplitudes in field theories and gauge theories in particular. We give an explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-19 Janusz Gluza , Krzysztof Kajda , David A. Kosower

Scattering amplitudes in $D$ dimensions involve particular terms that originate from the interplay of UV poles with the $D-4$ dimensional parts of loop numerators. Such contributions can be controlled through a finite set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Jean-Nicolas Lang , Stefano Pozzorini , Hantian Zhang , Max F. Zoller

In this letter we continue the calculation of master integrals for massless three-loop form factors by giving analytical results for those integrals which are relevant for the fermionic contributions proportional to N_F^2, N_F*N, and N_F/N.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Heinrich , T. Huber , D. Maitre

We generalise the factorization of abelian gauge theory amplitudes to next-to-leading power (NLP) in a soft scale expansion, following a recent generalisation for Yukawa theory. From an all-order power counting analysis of leading and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-01 E. Laenen , J. Sinninghe Damsté , L. Vernazza , W. Waalewijn , L. Zoppi

We calculate the two-loop effective action of QED for arbitrary constant electromagnetic fields at finite temperature T in the limit of T much smaller than the electron mass. It is shown that in this regime the two-loop contribution always…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Holger Gies

We complete the calculation of the QCD penguin amplitude at next-to-next-to-leading order in the QCD factorization approach to non-leptonic B-meson decays. This provides the last missing piece in the computation of the QCD correction to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Guido Bell , Martin Beneke , Tobias Huber , Xin-Qiang Li

We provide two two-loop amplitudes relevant for precision Higgs physics. The first is the two-loop amplitude for Higgs boson production through gluon fusion with exact dependence on the top quark mass up to squared order in the dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Charalampos Anastasiou , Nicolas Deutschmann , Armin Schweitzer

We compute the two-loop corrections to the massless quark form factor $\gamma^* \to q\bar q$ and gluon form factor $H\to gg$ to all orders in the dimensional regularisation parameter $\epsilon=(4-d)/2$. The two-loop contributions to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-04 T. Gehrmann , T. Huber , D. Maitre

Scattering amplitudes for the massless QCD process, $q\bar{q}\to q^\prime\bar{q}^\prime$, are calculated in the one-loop order in the Feynman-Diagram (FD) gauge, where gluons are quantized on the light cone with opposite direction of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-17 Kaoru Hagiwara , Kentarou Mawatari , Youichi Yamada , Ya-Juan Zheng

We present the publicly available program NGluon allowing the numerical evaluation of primitive amplitudes at one-loop order in massless QCD. The program allows the computation of one-loop amplitudes for an arbitrary number of gluons. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-02 Simon Badger , Benedikt Biedermann , Peter Uwer

We consider one-loop five-point QCD amplitudes in next-to-multi-Regge kinematics, and evaluate the one-loop impact factor for the emission of two gluons. This is the last ingredient which is necessary to evaluate the gluon-jet impact factor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-30 Marc Canay , Vittorio Del Duca

We report on a recent computation of the non-factorisable contribution to the two-loop helicity amplitude for $t$-channel single-top production arXiv:2108.09222. This is the last missing piece of the two-loop virtual corrections to this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-11 Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Jérémie Quarroz , Chen-Yu Wang

The contributions to the g-2 of the muon from some tenth-order (five-loop) graphs containing one-loop and two-loop vacuum polarization insertions have been evaluated analytically in QED perturbation theory, expanding the results in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Laporta