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On-shell amplitude methods allow to derive one-loop renormalization effects from just tree-level amplitudes, with no need of loop calculations. We derive a simple formula to obtain the anomalous dimensions of higher-dimensional operators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Pietro Baratella , Clara Fernandez , Alex Pomarol

It is shown how tree-level multi-gluon helicity amplitudes with an arbitrary number of off-shell external gluons can be calculated via BCFW recursion. Compact expressions for helicity amplitudes for scattering processes of three and four…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 A. van Hameren

We present a systematic method to evaluate the splitting functions for tree-level QCD processes where m partons approach the collinear limit. The splitting functions are computed by deriving on-shell recursion equations, which are similar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-03 Stefano Catani , Petros Draggiotis , Germán Rodrigo

We explore the on-shell recursion for tree-level scattering amplitudes with massive spinning particles. Based on the factorization structure encoded in the same way by two different recursion relations, we conjecture an all-multiplicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-03 Achilleas Lazopoulos , Alexander Ochirov , Canxin Shi

We review on-shell methods for computing multi-parton scattering amplitudes in perturbative QCD, utilizing their unitarity and factorization properties. We focus on aspects which are useful for the construction of one-loop amplitudes needed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

We consider the calculation of n-point multigluon tree amplitudes with a pair of massive fermions in QCD. We give the explicit transformation rules of this kind of massive fermion-pair amplitudes with respect to different reference momenta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Jia-Hui Huang , Weijian Wang

We study QCD helicity amplitudes with an arbitrary number of (massive) quarks, keeping unobserved (loop) particles in fixed integer $D_s$ dimensions. We find a suitable embedding of external four-dimensional fermion states into higher…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-16 F. R. Anger , V. Sotnikov

We present a program to evaluate tree-level multi-gluon amplitudes with up to two of them off-shell. Furthermore, it evaluates squared amplitudes summed over colors and helicities for up to six external gluons. It employs both analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Bury , A. van Hameren

We construct a modified on-shell BCFW recursion relation to derive compact analytic representations of tree-level amplitudes in QED. As an application, we study the amplitudes of a fermion pair coupling to an arbitrary number of photons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Simon Badger , Johannes M. Henn

We provide a new set of on-shell recursion relations for tree-level scattering amplitudes, which are valid for any non-trivial theory of massless particles. In particular, we reconstruct the scattering amplitudes from (a subset of) their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Paolo Benincasa , Eduardo Conde

A set of recurrence relations for on-shell two-loop self-energy diagrams with one mass is presented, which allows to reduce the diagrams with arbitrary indices (powers of scalar propagators) to a set of the master integrals. The SHELL2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Fleischer , M. Yu. Kalmykov , A. V. Kotikov

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

The quantum effects encapsulated in loop corrections are crucial in quantum field theory for a wide variety of formal and phenomenological applications. In this article we propose and check a definition of the so-called single cut…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-18 Rutger H. Boels , Hui Luo

I provide a basic introduction to modern helicity amplitude methods, including color organization, the spinor helicity formalism, and factorization properties. I also describe the BCFW (on-shell) recursion relation at tree level, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-02 Lance J. Dixon

We give an explicit formula for all tree amplitudes in N=4 SYM, derived by solving the recently presented supersymmetric tree-level recursion relations. The result is given in a compact, manifestly supersymmetric form and we show how to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 J. M. Drummond , J. M. Henn

On-shell methods offer an alternative definition of quantum field theory at tree-level, replacing Feynman diagrams with recursion relations and interaction vertices with a handful of seed scattering amplitudes. In this paper we determine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-10 Clifford Cheung , Chia-Hsien Shen , Jaroslav Trnka

In this talk we discuss the color decomposition of tree-level and one-loop QCD amplitudes with arbitrary numbers of quarks and gluons. We present a method for the decomposition of partial amplitudes into primitive amplitudes, which is based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-03 Christian Reuschle , Stefan Weinzierl

We combine the six-dimensional helicity formalism of Cheung and O'Connell with D-dimensional generalized unitarity to obtain a new formalism for computing one-loop amplitudes in dimensionally regularized QCD. With this procedure, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Scott Davies

Recently it has been shown that in gauge theories amplitudes to any perturbation order can be obtained by glueing together simple three-point on-shell amplitudes. These three-point amplitudes in turn are fixed by locality and Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-04 M. Maniatis

We derive an off-shell recursion relation for correlators that holds at all loop orders. This allows us to prove how generalized amplitudes transform under generic field redefinitions, starting from an assumed behavior of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Timothy Cohen , Xiaochuan Lu , Dave Sutherland