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We present a formalism for the calculation of multi-particle one-loop amplitudes, valid for an arbitrary number N of external legs, and for massive as well as massless particles. A new method for the tensor reduction is suggested which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-16 T. Binoth , J. Ph. Guillet , G. Heinrich , E. Pilon , C. Schubert

A simple algorithm is presented to decompose any 1-loop amplitude for scattering processes of the class 2 fermions -> 4 fermions into a fixed number of gauge-invariant form factors. The structure of the amplitude is simpler than in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandro Vicini

Scattering amplitudes with spinning particles are shown to decompose into multiple copies of simple building blocks to all loop orders, which can be used to efficiently reduce these amplitudes to sums over scalar integrals. Absence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-28 Rutger H. Boels , Qingjun Jin , Hui Luo

One-loop integrands can be written in terms of a simple, process-independent basis. We show that a similar basis exists for integrands of phase-space integrals for the real-emission contribution at next-to-leading order. Our demonstration…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-28 David A. Kosower , Ben Page

We discuss algebraic/numeric methods to compute one-loop corrections for multiparticle/jet production cross sections. By using efficient reduction algorithms a compact expression for the ggg\gamma\gamma -> 0 amplitude is obtained. Further a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Binoth

Unitarity cut method has been proved to be very useful in the computation of one-loop integrals. In this paper, we generalize the method to the situation where the powers of propagators in the denominator are larger than one in general. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Bo Feng , Hongbin Wang

An algorithm for the reduction of one-loop n-point tensor integrals to basic integrals is proposed. We transform tensor integrals to scalar integrals with shifted dimension and reduce these by recurrence relations to integrals in generic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Fleischer , F. Jegerlehner , O. V. Tarasov

The high energy amplitudes of the large angles Moller scattering are calculated in frame of chiral basis in Born and 1-loop QED level. Taking into account as well the contribution from emission of soft real photons the compact relations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 A. I. Ahmadov , Yu. M. Bystritskiy , A. N. Ilyichev , E. A. Kuraev , V. A. Zykunov

We review techniques for more efficient computation of perturbative scattering amplitudes in gauge theory, in particular tree and one-loop multi-parton amplitudes in QCD. We emphasize the advantages of (1) using color and helicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 L. Dixon

We present analytic results for the finite diagrams contributing to the two-loop eight-point MHV scattering amplitude of planar N=4 SYM. We use a recently proposed representation for the integrand of the amplitude in terms of (momentum)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-21 Luis F. Alday

The infrared exponentiation properties of dimensionally-regularized multi-loop scattering amplitudes are typically hidden at the level of the integrand, materializing only after integral evaluation. We address this long-standing problem by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-22 Robert M. Schabinger

We present an alternative reduction to master integrals for one-loop amplitudes using a unitarity cut method in arbitrary dimensions. We carry out the reduction in two steps. The first step is a pure four-dimensional cut-integration of tree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Charalampos Anastasiou , Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Zoltan Kunszt , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We present an optimization of the reduction algorithm of one-loop amplitudes in terms of master integrals. It is based on the exploitation of the polynomial structure of the integrand when evaluated at values of the loop-momentum fulfilling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Mastrolia , G. Ossola , C. G. Papadopoulos , R. Pittau

We present an analytic technique for evaluating single cuts for one-loop integrands, where exactly one propagator is taken to be on shell. Our method extends the double-cut integration formalism of one-loop amplitudes to the single-cut…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-03 Ruth Britto , Edoardo Mirabella

We present formulas for the coefficients of 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-point master integrals for one-loop massive amplitudes. The coefficients are derived from unitarity cuts in D dimensions. The input parameters can be read off from any…

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

This article is the second of a series of three presenting an alternative method to compute the one-loop scalar integrals. It extends the results of the first article to general complex masses. Let us remind the main features enjoyed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 J. Ph. Guillet , E. Pilon , Y. Shimizu , M. S. Zidi

The calculation of scattering amplitudes at higher orders in perturbation theory has reached a high degree of maturity. However, their usage to produce physical predictions within Monte Carlo programs is often precluded by the slow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-24 Víctor Bresó , Gudrun Heinrich , Vitaly Magerya , Anton Olsson

We present a semi-recursive method for calculating the rational parts of one-loop amplitudes when recursion produces double poles. We illustrate this with the graviton scattering amplitude M^{1-loop}(1-, 2+, 3+, 4+, 5+).

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-13 David C. Dunbar , James H. Ettle , Warren B. Perkins

We develop a unitarity method to compute one-loop amplitudes with massless propagators in d=4-2*epsilon dimensions. We compute double cuts of the loop amplitudes via a decomposition into a four-dimensional and a -2*epsilon-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Charalampos Anastasiou , Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Zoltan Kunszt , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

The existence of a finite basis of algebraically independent one-loop integrals has underpinned important developments in the computation of one-loop amplitudes in field theories and gauge theories in particular. We give an explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-19 Janusz Gluza , Krzysztof Kajda , David A. Kosower