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We present the first numerical computation of two-loop amplitudes based on the unitarity method. As a proof of principle, we compute the four-gluon process. We discuss the new method, analyze its numerical properties and apply it to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-11 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Jaquier , B. Page , M. Zeng

We present an explicit expression for a particular $n$-gluon two loop scattering partial amplitude. Specifically we present an analytic form for the single trace $N_c$ independent colour partial amplitude for the case where all external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-08 David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins , Joseph M. W. Strong

We present one-loop contributions to the fully differential Higgs boson gluon-fusion cross-section for Higgs production via gluon fusion. Our results constitute a necessary ingredient of a complete N$^3$LO determination of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-05 Charalampos Anastasiou , Caterina Specchia

In this talk, we present the first, numerically stable, results for the one-loop amplitudes needed for computing W,Z + 3 jet cross sections at the LHC to next-to-leading order in the QCD coupling. We implemented these processes in BlackHat,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-08-08 C. F. Berger , Z. Bern , L. J. Dixon , F. Febres Cordero , D. Forde , H. Ita , D. A. Kosower , D. Maitre

We compute the leading colour contributions to five-gluon scattering at two loops in massless QCD. The integrands of all independent helicity amplitudes are evaluated using d-dimensional generalised unitarity cuts and finite field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Tiziano Peraro

We review generalized unitarity as a means for obtaining loop amplitudes from on-shell tree amplitudes. The method is generally applicable to both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric amplitudes, including non-planar contributions. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Zvi Bern , Yu-tin Huang

Calculations of $1\to N$ amplitudes in scalar field theories at very high multiplicities exhibit an extremely rapid growth with the number $N$ of final state particles. This either indicates an end of perturbative behaviour, or possibly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-21 Joerg Jaeckel , Sebastian Schenk

We set up a bootstrap problem for renormalization. Working in the massless four-dimensional O$(N)$ model and the $\lambda \phi^4$ theory, we prove that unitarity leads to all-loop recursion relations between coefficients of scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Ameya Chavda , Daniel McLoughlin , Sebastian Mizera , John Staunton

The ability to calculate analytic full-colour two-to-three two-loop helicity amplitudes in massless QCD has been a recent triumph of the field, driving phenomenology towards one percent precision. In this contribution, we focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-31 Ryan Moodie

We review the conventional field theory description of the string motivated technique. This technique is applied to the one-loop five-gluon amplitude. To evaluate the amplitude a general method for computing dimensionally regulated one-loop…

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

We present the one-loop QCD corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the processes $q\qb \to W^+ W^-, Z Z, W^\pm Z, W^\pm \gamma$, or $Z \gamma$, including the subsequent decay of each massive vector boson into a pair of leptons. We also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 L. Dixon , Z. Kunszt , A. Signer

We present a computation of the one-loop QCD corrections to top-quark pair production in association with a $W$ boson, including terms up to order $\varepsilon^2$ in dimensional regularization. Providing a first glimpse into the complexity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-05 Matteo Becchetti , Maximilian Delto , Sara Ditsch , Philipp Alexander Kreer , Mattia Pozzoli , Lorenzo Tancredi

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 consider the process containing two quark lines and an arbitrary number of gluons in a spinor helicity framework. A current with two off-shell gluons appears in the amplitude. We first study this modified gluon current using recursion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 G. Mahlon , T. M. Yan , C. Dunn

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 present the analytic results of one-loop squared amplitudes for $tW$ production at a hadron collider. The calculation is performed using the method of differential equations. After renormalization, we have checked that the infrared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-30 Long-Bin Chen , Liang Dong , Hai Tao Li , Zhao Li , Jian Wang , Yefan Wang

We present the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for quark-gluon scattering, and for quark-antiquark annihilation into two gluons. These amplitudes are relevant for next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to (polarized) jet production at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-28 Z. Bern , A. De Freitas , L. Dixon

The soft anomalous dimension governs the infrared singularities of scattering amplitudes to all orders in perturbative quantum field theory, and is a crucial ingredient in both formal and phenomenological applications of non-abelian gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-25 Øyvind Almelid , Claude Duhr , Einan Gardi , Andrew McLeod , Chris D. White

We consider a scalar field, such as the Higgs boson H, coupled to gluons via the effective operator H tr G_{mu nu} G^{mu nu} induced by a heavy-quark loop. We treat H as the real part of a complex field phi which couples to the self-dual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Carola F. Berger , Vittorio Del Duca , Lance J. Dixon

We derive an explicit formula for the low energy limits of the one-loop, on-shell, massive N-photon amplitudes, for arbitrary N and all helicity assignments, in scalar and spinor QED. The two-loop corrections to the same amplitudes are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Louise C. Martin , Christian Schubert , Victor M. Villanueva Sandoval