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The fragmentation functions and scattering amplitudes are investigated in the framework of light-front perturbation theory. It is demonstrated that, the factorization property of the fragmentation functions implies the recursion relations…

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We consider the multi-collinear limit of multi-gluon QCD amplitudes at tree level. We use the MHV rules for constructing colour ordered tree amplitudes and the general collinear factorization formula to derive timelike splitting functions…

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We recursively construct tree-level electromagnetic and gravitational Compton amplitudes of higher-spin massive particles by the all-line transverse momentum shift. With three-point amplitude as input, we demonstrate that higher-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-04 Yohei Ema , Ting Gao , Wenqi Ke , Zhen Liu , Ishmam Mahbub

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…

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We discuss tree level three and four point scattering amplitudes in type II string models with matter fields localized at the intersections of D-brane wrapping cycles. Using conformal field theory techniques we calculate the four fermion…

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Recent progress in unitarity techniques for one-loop scattering amplitudes makes a numerical implementation of this method possible. We present a 4-dimensional unitarity method for calculating the cut-constructible part of amplitudes and…

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We discuss new results in QCD obtained with string-based methods. These methods were originally derived from superstring theory and are significantly more efficient than conventional Feynman rules. This technology was a key ingredient in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

We present the tree-level amplitudes involving one, two and three photons that are required for next-to-leading order QCD calculations of production rates of three final-state particles. We also present the required one-loop amplitudes in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Vittorio Del Duca , William B. Kilgore , Fabio Maltoni

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of massless quarks in QCD. We use projector techniques to compute the coefficients of the general four-quark amplitude at up to two-loops in conventional dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 E. W. N. Glover

We present a prescription to calculate manifestly gauge invariant tree-level scattering amplitudes for arbitrary scattering processes with off-shell initial-state quarks within the kinematics of high-energy scattering.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 A. van Hameren , K. Kutak , T. Salwa

We present a simple method to automatically evaluate arbitrary tree-level amplitudes involving the production or decay of a heavy quark pair QQbar in a generic {2S+1}L_J^[1,8] state, i.e., the short distance coefficients appearing in the…

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We compute the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the $1 \to 2$ splitting amplitudes in different dimensional regularization (DREG) schemes. Besides recovering previously known results, we explore new DREG schemes and analyze…

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I review some recent work that describes the close analogy between self-dual Yang--Mills amplitudes and QCD amplitudes with external gluons of positive helicity. This analogy is carried at tree level for amplitudes with two external quarks…

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We consider the dimensional regularization of the light-cone gauge type II superstring field theories in the NSR formalism. In the previous work, we have calculated the tree-level amplitudes with external lines in the (NS,NS) sector using…

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We review progress in calculating one-loop scattering amplitudes required for next-to-leading-order corrections to QCD processes. The underlying technical developments include the spinor helicity formalism, color decompositions,…

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

We discuss the calculation of two-loop helicity amplitudes for quark-quark scattering in QCD and four-gluino scattering in N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We study the dependence of the results on different variants of dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. De Freitas , Z. Bern

We present compact analytic results for tree-level amplitudes containing a $t \bar{t}$ pair accompanied by up to four massless partons, $t \bar{t}gg$, $t \bar{t}ggg$, $t \bar{t}gggg$, $t \bar{t}q\bar{q}$, $t \bar{t}q\bar{q}g$, $t…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-22 John M. Campbell , R. Keith Ellis

We introduce the computer code Recola for the recursive generation of tree-level and one-loop amplitudes in the Standard Model. Tree-level amplitudes are constructed using off-shell currents instead of Feynman diagrams as basic building…

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