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We present a technique which utilizes unitarity and collinear limits to construct ansatze for one-loop amplitudes in gauge theory. As an example, we obtain the one-loop contribution to amplitudes for $n$ gluon scattering in $N=4$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. C. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

We present the analytic and compact two-loop helicity amplitudes for QCD and QED corrections to the light-by-light scattering process with massive internal fermions. We express the master integrals either in terms of multiple polylogarithms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Ajjath A H , Ekta Chaubey , Hua-Sheng Shao

We show how generalised unitarity cuts in D = 4 - 2 epsilon dimensions can be used to calculate efficiently complete one-loop scattering amplitudes in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This approach naturally generates the rational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Simon McNamara , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

Various implementations of the Unitarity method have been developed to compute one-loop amplitudes in gauge theories. In this paper we present an implementation which uses canonical forms to generate the rational coefficients of the basis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-24 David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins , Edmund Warrick

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 the leading-color two-loop QCD corrections for Higgs-boson production in association with two jets through gluon fusion in the heavy-top effective theory. We provide analytic expressions for the finite remainders of the helicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Viktor Kuschke , Michael Ruf , Vasily Sotnikov

We review some of the recent advances in the computation of one-loop scattering amplitudes which led to the construction of efficient and automated computational tools for NLO predictions. Particular attention is devoted to unitarity-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Giovanni Ossola

Techniques based upon the string organisation of amplitudes may be used to simplify field theory calculations. We apply these techniques to perturbative gravity and calculate all one-loop amplitudes for four-graviton scattering with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 David C. Dunbar , Paul S. Norridge

We present analytical results for all six-photon helicity amplitudes. For the computation of this loop induced process two recently developed methods, based on form factor decomposition and on multiple cuts, have been used. We obtain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Binoth , T. Gehrmann , G. Heinrich , P. Mastrolia

We present a complete set of analytic helicity amplitudes for top quark pair production via gluon fusion at two-loops in QCD. For the first time, we include corrections due to massive fermion loops which give rise to integrals over elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-14 Simon Badger , Ekta Chaubey , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Robin Marzucca

We present a set of algebraic functions for evaluating the coefficients of the scalar integral basis of a general one-loop amplitude. The functions are derived from unitarity cuts, but the complete cut-integral procedure has been carried…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ruth Britto , Bo Feng

The rational parts of 5-gluon one-loop amplitudes are computed by using the newly developed method for computing the rational parts directly from Feynman integrals. We found complete agreement with the previously well-known results of Bern,…

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

In this review some recent multi-loop results obtained in the framework of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) are discussed. After reviewing the most advanced techniques used for the computation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Steinhauser

We calculate all the four-photon helicity amplitudes at the one-loop level in a massive theory using multiple-cut methods. The amplitudes are derived in scalar QED, QED and $\textrm{QED}^{\caln =1}$ theories. We will see the origin of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Christophe Bernicot

We calculate one loop scattering amplitudes for arbitrary number of positive helicity on-shell gluons and one off-shell gluon treated within the quasi-multi Regge kinematics. The result is fully gauge invariant and possesses the correct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-05 Etienne Blanco , Andreas van Hameren , Piotr Kotko , Krzysztof Kutak

We present a novel set of Feynman rules and generalised unitarity cut-conditions for computing one-loop amplitudes via d-dimensional integrand reduction algorithm. Our algorithm is suited for analytic as well as numerical result, because…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-25 W. J. Torres Bobadilla , A. R. Fazio , P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella

We review recent developments for the calculation of Born amplitudes in QCD. This includes the computation of gluon helicity amplitudes from MHV vertices and an approach based on scalar propagators and a set of three- and four-valent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Christian Schwinn , Stefan Weinzierl

We compute the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the production of three photons at hadron colliders in QCD at leading-color. Using the two-loop numerical unitarity method coupled with analytic reconstruction techniques, we obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-20 S. Abreu , B. Page , E. Pascual , V. Sotnikov

We present a semi-numerical method to compute one-loop corrections to multi-leg processes. We apply the method to the study of Higgs plus four parton and six gluon amplitudes.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Zanderighi

We show how to extract the coefficients of the 4-, 3-, 2- and 1-point one-loop scalar integrals from the full one-loop amplitude of arbitrary scattering processes. In a similar fashion, also the rational terms can be derived. Basically no…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Giovanni Ossola , Costas G. Papadopoulos , Roberto Pittau