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In the last few years, much progress has been made in the computation of one-loop virtual matrix elements for processes involving many external particles. In this contribution the methods that have enabled this recent progress are briefly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-20 D. Maitre

An algorithm, based on the OPP reduction method, to automatically compute any one-loop amplitude, for all momentum, color and helicity configurations of the external particles, is presented. It has been implemented using the tree-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 A. van Hameren , C. G. Papadopoulos , R. Pittau

We show that one-loop amplitudes in massless gauge theories can be determined from single cuts. By cutting a single propagator and putting it on-shell, the integrand of an n-point one-loop integral is transformed into an (n+2)-particle tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-25 E. W. Nigel Glover , Ciaran Williams

We present the one-loop helicity amplitudes for processes involving a vector boson V (V=W,Z, or gamma^*) and four massless quarks, 0 to V q-bar q Q-bar Q, where V couples to a massless lepton pair. These amplitudes are required for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower , S. Weinzierl

For three dimensional N=6 superconformal field theories we compute one-loop scattering amplitudes for any number of external particles. We focus on a particular subsector of N=2 invariant superamplitudes for which the ordinary perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-11 Marco S. Bianchi , Matias Leoni , Andrea Mauri , Silvia Penati , Alberto Santambrogio

A general formalism for computing only the rational parts of oneloop QCD amplitudes is developed. Starting from the Feynman integral representation of the one-loop amplitude, we use tensor reduction and recursive relations to compute the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhi-Guang Xiao , Gang Yang , Chuan-Jie Zhu

In this article I review recent progress towards the analytical calculation of massless 6--point amplitudes. A way to organize such calculations is sketched and results for scattering amplitudes in the Yukawa model are presented.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Binoth

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

The decomposition of a one-loop scattering amplitude into elementary functions with rational coefficients introduces spurious singularities which afflict individual coefficients but cancel in the complete amplitude. These cancellations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 David C. Dunbar , James H. Ettle , Warren B. Perkins

Recently the calculations of all five-parton one-loop QCD amplitudes have been completed. In this letter we describe how to get the corresponding amplitudes with one gluon replaced by a photon and we give the explicit results for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Adrian Signer

We present master formulas for the divergent part of the one-loop effective action for an arbitrary (both minimal and nonminimal) operators of any order in the 4-dimensional curved space. They can be considered as computer algorithms,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Pronin , K. Stepanyantz

We complete the computation of the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the production of three photons at hadron colliders, including all contributions beyond the leading-color approximation. We reconstruct the analytic form of the amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-16 Samuel Abreu , Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Maximillian Klinkert , Ben Page , Vasily Sotnikov

We discuss recent progress towards extending the Helac framework to the calculation of two-loop amplitudes. A general algorithm for the automated computation of two-loop integrands is described. The algorithm covers all the steps of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-19 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Dhimiter Canko , Costas Papadopoulos

We consider the analytic calculation of a two-loop non-planar three-point function which contributes to the two-loop amplitudes for $t \bar{t}$ production and $\gamma \gamma$ production in gluon fusion through a massive top-quark loop. All…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

We briefly review numerical methods for calculations beyond one loop and then describe new developments within the method of sector decomposition in more detail. We also discuss applications to two-loop integrals involving several mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 S. Borowka , G. Heinrich , S. Jahn , S. P. Jones , M. Kerner , J. Schlenk

These notes are for the author's lectures, "Integral Reduction and Applied Algebraic Geometry Techniques" in the School and Workshop on Amplitudes in Beijing 2016. I introduce the applications of algebraic geometry methods on multi-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-14 Yang Zhang

We take a major step towards computing $D$-dimensional one-loop amplitudes in general gauge theories, compatible with the principles of unitarity and the color-kinematics duality. For $n$-point amplitudes with either supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-20 Alex Edison , Song He , Henrik Johansson , Oliver Schlotterer , Fei Teng , Yong Zhang

We describe an application of generalised unitarity to the computation of one-loop amplitudes with massive external fermions. We present analytic results for the cut-constructible parts of the leading colour contributions to the all-plus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. D. Badger

This work is devoted to a theoretical description of polarized M{\o}ller scattering. Complete one-loop electroweak radiative corrections are calculated in the helicity amplitude approach with allowance for the exact dependence on the muon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-22 S. G. Bondarenko , L. V. Kalinovskaya , L. A. Rumyantsev , V. L. Yermolchyk

We explain how one-loop amplitudes with massive fermions can be computed using only on-shell information. We first use the spinor-helicity formalism in six dimensions to perform generalised unitarity cuts in $d$ dimensions. We then show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Francesco Buciuni , Donal O'Connell