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We introduce a new technique to generate scattering amplitudes at one loop. Traditional tree algorithms, which handle diagrams with fixed momenta, are promoted to generators of loop-momentum polynomials that we call open loops. Combining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Fabio Cascioli , Philipp Maierhöfer , Stefano Pozzorini

Numerical interpolation techniques are widely employed for calculating large rational functions in scattering amplitude computations. It has been observed in recent years that these rational functions greatly simplify upon partial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 Herschel A. Chawdhry

We show how to evaluate tensor one-loop integrals in momentum space avoiding the usual plague of Gram determinants. We do this by constructing combinations of $n$- and $(n-1)$-point scalar integrals that are finite in the limit of vanishing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Campbell , E. W. N. Glover , D. J. Miller

We present and numerically implement a computational method to construct relativistic scattering amplitudes that obey analyticity, crossing, elastic and inelastic unitarity in three and four spacetime dimensions. The algorithm is based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-17 Piotr Tourkine , Alexander Zhiboedov

We calculate the inelastic $2\to3$ one-loop amplitude for the scattering of two point-like, spinless objects with generic masses involving the additional emission of a single graviton. We focus on the near-forward, or classical, limit. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Alessandro Georgoudis , Carlo Heissenberg , Ingrid Vazquez-Holm

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

One remaining problem of unitarity cut method for one-loop integral reduction is that tadpole coefficients can not be straightforward obtained through this way. In this paper, we reconsider the problem by applying differential operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Bo Feng , Tingfei Li , Xiaodi Li

One-loop scattering amplitudes in string theories involve configuration-space integrals over genus-one surfaces with coefficients of Kronecker-Eisenstein series in the integrand. A conjectural genus-one basis of integrands under Fay…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 Carlos Rodriguez , Oliver Schlotterer , Yong Zhang

We compute the three-loop corrections to the helicity amplitudes for $q\bar{q}\to Q\bar{Q}$ scattering in massless QCD. In the Lorentz decomposition of the scattering amplitude we avoid evanescent Lorentz structures and map the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-06 Fabrizio Caola , Amlan Chakraborty , Giulio Gambuti , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

We review the current state-of-the-art in integrand level reduction for five-point scattering amplitudes at two loops in QCD. We present some benchmark results for the evaluation of the leading colour two-loop five-gluon amplitudes in the…

We use the infrared consistency of one-loop amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory to derive a compact analytic formula for a tree-level NNMHV gluon scattering amplitude in QCD, the first such formula known. We argue that the IR conditions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Radu Roiban , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Fully differential next-to-next-to-leading order calculations require a method to cancel infrared singularities. In a previous publication, I discussed the general setup for the subtraction method at NNLO. In this paper I give all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefan Weinzierl

Unitarity cuts are widely used in analytic computation of loop amplitudes in gauge theories such as QCD. We expand upon the technique introduced in hep-ph/0503132 to carry out any finite unitarity cut integral. This technique naturally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We compute the simplest one-loop planar amplitudes in Higgsed ABJM theory at a generic point of the moduli space. We explicitly check that they can be expressed in terms of integrals which are invariant under dual conformal symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-05 Marco S. Bianchi

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

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

We present an algorithm for the integrand-level reduction of multi-loop amplitudes of renormalizable field theories, based on computational algebraic geometry. This algorithm uses (1) the Gr\"obner basis method to determine the basis for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Yang Zhang

In this talk, the program package GOSAM is presented, which can be used for the automated calculation of one-loop amplitudes for multi-particle processes. The integrands are generated in terms of Feynman diagrams and can be reduced by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-01-19 G. Cullen , N. Greiner , G. Heinrich , G. Luisoni , P. Mastrolia , G. Ossola , T. Reiter , F. Tramontano

By the unitarity cut method, analytic expressions of one-loop coefficients have been given in spinor forms. In this paper, we present one-loop coefficients of various bases in Lorentz-invariant contraction forms of external momenta. Using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-28 Bo Feng , Honghui Wang

We develop a polynomial reduction procedure that transforms any gauge fixed CHY amplitude integrand for $n$ scattering particles into a $\sigma$-moduli multivariate polynomial of what we call the $\textit{standard form}$. We show that a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-05 Michael Zlotnikov