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We present a compact form of the massive $1\to 3$ tree-level QCD splitting functions and discuss a decomposition of the results in terms of lower-order expressions, scalar dipole antenna functions and pure higher-order remainders. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 Stefan Höche , Matt LeBlanc , Jennifer Roloff , Grant Whitman

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

We describe a general method that enables us to obtain all the singular terms of helicity amplitudes of n-parton processes at one loop. The algorithm uses helicity amplitudes at tree level and simple color algebra. We illustrate the method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Zoltan Kunszt , Adrian Signer , Zoltan Trocsanyi

We present the two-loop amplitudes for a self-dual Higgs boson with up to four positive helicity gluons in the heavy top-quark limit. Because the tree amplitudes in the all-plus sector vanish, we can construct simple representations of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Simon Badger , Christian Biello , Colomba Brancaccio , Federico Ripani

The study of QCD scattering amplitudes in the collinear regime provides crucial insight into the factorization properties of hadronic cross sections. In this paper, we present the first complete results for two-loop spacelike splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Federico Buccioni , Hanyu Fang , Kai Yan

The scale evolution of parton distributions is determined by universal splitting functions. As a milestone towards the computation of these functions to four-loop order in QCD, we compute all contributions to the pure-singlet quark-quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-02 Thomas Gehrmann , Andreas von Manteuffel , Vasily Sotnikov , Tong-Zhi Yang

We evaluate the one-loop soft current for the emission of two soft gluons or a soft quark-anti-quark pair in massless Quantum Chromodynamics. The results are exact in dimensional regularisation up to a single Feynman integral. Two terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-20 Michał Czakon , Felix Eschment , Tom Schellenberger

The collinear factorization properties of two-loop scattering amplitudes in dimensionally-regulated N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory suggest that, in the planar ('t Hooft) limit, higher-loop contributions can be expressed entirely in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 C. Anastasiou , Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

Splitting functions are universal functions describing the collinear dynamics of gauge theories, and as such are crucial ingredients for a wide variety of calculations in perturbative QCD. We present analytic results for the triple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-29 Evan Craft , Mark Gonzalez , Kyle Lee , Bianka Meçaj , Ian Moult

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 present a calculation of the planar two-loop five-gluon amplitudes. The amplitudes are obtained in a variant of the generalized unitarity approach suitable for numerical computations, which we extend for use with finite field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-27 Samuel Abreu , Fernando Febres Cordero , Harald Ita , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

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

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 analytically compute the two-loop scattering amplitude $gg \to Hg$ assuming that the mass of the quark, that mediates the ggH interaction, is vanishingly small. Our computation provides an important ingredient required to improve the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-02 Kirill Melnikov , Lorenzo Tancredi , Christopher Wever

Using cutting techniques we obtain the two-loop N=4 super-Yang-Mills helicity amplitudes for four-gluon scattering in terms of scalar integral functions. The N=4 amplitudes are considerably simpler than corresponding QCD amplitudes and…

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

These proceedings describe a computation of the large-$n_f$ terms contributing to the QCD splitting functions at the fourth order in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$. Using the FORCER package for the reduction of four-loop two-point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-04 Joshua Davies

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

We present a calculation of the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the processes H-->ggg and H-->gqqbar in the large-M_t limit. In this limit the calculation can be performed in terms of one-loop diagrams containing an effective Hgg operator.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Carl R. Schmidt

We address the analytic computation of the two-loop scattering amplitudes for the production of two photons in parton-parton scattering, mediated by loops of heavy quarks. Due to the presence of integrals of elliptic type, both partonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Matteo Becchetti , Federico Coro , Christoph Nega , Lorenzo Tancredi , Fabian J. Wagner

We compute for the first time the two-loop five-particle amplitude in $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity. Starting from the known integrand, we perform an integration-by-parts reduction and express the answer in terms of uniform weight master…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 D. Chicherin , T. Gehrmann , J. M. Henn , P. Wasser , Y. Zhang , S. Zoia