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We study the factorisation properties of one-loop scattering amplitudes in the triple collinear limit and extract the universal splitting amplitudes for processes initiated by a gluon. The splitting amplitudes are derived from the analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-20 Simon Badger , Francesco Buciuni , Tiziano Peraro

We combine the unitarity method with the six-dimensional helicity formalism of Cheung and O'Connell to construct loop-level scattering amplitudes. As a first example, we construct dimensionally regularized QCD one-loop four-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang , Harald Ita

We present the first results from BlackHat, an automated C++ program for calculating one-loop amplitudes. The program implements the unitarity method and on-shell recursion to construct amplitudes. As input to the calculation, it uses…

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 present a calculation of the planar two-loop five-gluon amplitudes. The amplitudes are obtained in a variant of the generalized unitarity approach suitable for numerical computations, which we extend for use with finite field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-27 Samuel Abreu , Fernando Febres Cordero , Harald Ita , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

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 discuss new techniques developed in recent years for performing one-loop calculations in QCD, and present an example of results from the process 0 -> V q q-bar g g. Talk presented at the 1996 Zeuthen Workshop on Elementary Particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

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 present a new method for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory. It extends the Generalized Unitarity method by constraining not only the integrand of the amplitude but also its full integrated form. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Piotr Bargiela

By analytically continuing QCD scattering amplitudes through specific complexified momenta, one can study and learn about the nature and the consequences of factorization and unitarity. In some cases, when coupled with the largest time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Diana Vaman , York-Peng Yao

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

This note reports on an independent implementation of calculating one-loop amplitudes semi-numerically using generalized unitarity techniques. The algorithm implemented in form of a C++ code closely follows the method by Ellis, Giele,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-03 Jan-Christopher Winter , Walter T. Giele

The success of the experimental program at the Tevatron re-inforced the idea that precision physics at hadron colliders is desirable and, indeed, possible. The Tevatron data strongly suggests that one-loop computations in QCD describe hard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 R. Keith Ellis , Zoltan Kunszt , Kirill Melnikov , Giulia Zanderighi

The rational parts of 6-gluon one-loop amplitudes with scalars circulating in the loop are computed by using the newly developed method for computing the rational parts directly from Feynman integrals. We present the analytic results for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhi-Guang Xiao , Gang Yang , Chuan-Jie Zhu

We review recent progress in D-dimensional integrand reduction algorithms for two loop amplitudes and give examples of their application to non-planar maximal cuts of the five-point all-plus helicity amplitude in QCD.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-14 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

We present an expression for the QCD amplitude for a general hard scattering process with any number of soft gluon emissions, to one-loop accuracy. The amplitude is written in two different but equivalent ways: as a product of operators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-01 René Ángeles-Martínez , Jeffrey R. Forshaw , Michael H. Seymour

We present a method for the direct extraction of rational contributions to one-loop scattering amplitudes, missed by standard four-dimensional unitarity techniques. We use generalised unitarity in $D=4-2\e$ dimensions to write the loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-27 S. D. Badger

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

In this talk we describe the recursive Approach to One-loop QCD Matrix Elements.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , David C. Dunbar , Harald Ita

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 detail the calculation of two-loop all-plus helicity amplitudes for pure Yang-Mills theory. The four dimensional unitarity methods and augmented recursion techniques we have developed, together with a knowledge of the singular structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 David C. Dunbar , John H. Godwin , Guy R. Jehu , Warren B. Perkins