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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 use the solutions to the recursion relations for double-off-shell fermion currents to compute helicity amplitudes for $n$-photon scattering and electron-positron annihilation to photons in the massless limit of QED. The form of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Gregory Mahlon

We present analytic results for the one-loop corrections of the helicity amplitudes of the QCD five-parton subprocesses involving four quarks and one gluon obtained with a standard Feynman diagram calculation using dimensional reduction.

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

We consider on-shell recursion relations for all Born QCD amplitudes. This includes amplitudes with several pairs of quarks and massive quarks. We give a detailed description on how to shift the external particles in spinor space and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Christian Schwinn , Stefan Weinzierl

We present the analytic form of the two-loop five-gluon scattering amplitudes in QCD for a complete set of independent helicity configurations of external gluons. These include the first analytic results for five-point two-loop amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-06 S. Abreu , J. Dormans , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , B. Page

We describe BlackHat, an automated C++ program for calculating one-loop amplitudes, and the techniques used in its construction. These include the unitarity method and on-shell recursion. The other ingredients are compact analytic formulae…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. F. Berger , Z. Bern , L. J. Dixon , F. Febres Cordero , D. Forde , H. Ita , D. A. Kosower , D. Maitre

We study the application of recursion relations to the calculation of finite one-loop gravity amplitudes. It is shown explicitly that the known four, five, and six graviton one-loop amplitudes for which the external legs have identical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Andreas Brandhuber , Simon McNamara , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

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

Recently, the spinor helicity formalism and on-shell superspace were developed for six-dimensional gauge theories with (1,1) supersymmetry. We combine these two techniques with (generalised) unitarity, which is a powerful technique to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Andreas Brandhuber , Dimitrios Korres , Daniel Koschade , Gabriele Travaglini

We compute the two-loop corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the coupling of a massive vector boson to a massless quark-antiquark pair and a gluon, accounting for vector and axial-vector couplings of the vector boson and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-19 Thomas Gehrmann , Tiziano Peraro , Lorenzo Tancredi

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

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 compute the three-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of four gluons in QCD. We employ projectors in the 't Hooft-Veltman scheme and construct the amplitudes from a minimal set of physical building blocks, which allows us to keep…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-30 Fabrizio Caola , Amlan Chakraborty , Giulio Gambuti , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

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

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 consider one-loop amplitudes of a Higgs boson coupled to gluons in the limit of a large top quark mass. We treat the Higgs as the real part of a complex field phi that couples to the self-dual field strengths and compute the one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-22 Simon Badger , E. W. Nigel Glover , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Ciaran Williams

We analytically calculate one- and two-loop helicity amplitudes in massless QED, by adopting a four-dimensional tensor decomposition. We draw our attention to four-fermion and Compton scattering processes to higher orders in the dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-20 Thomas Dave , William J. Torres Bobadilla

We discuss the structure of infrared and ultraviolet singularities in on-shell QCD and supersymmetric QCD amplitudes at one-loop order. Previous results, valid for massless partons, are extended to the case of massive partons. Using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Stefano Catani , Stefan Dittmaier , Zoltan Trocsanyi

We report on a technique for evaluating finite unitarity cut for one-loop amplitudes in gauge theories, and discuss its application to the cut-constructible part of six-gluon amplitude in QCD.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We apply the solution to the recursion relation for the double-off-shell quark current to the problem of computing one loop amplitudes with an arbitrary number of gluons. We are able to compute amplitudes for photon-gluon scattering,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Gregory Mahlon