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In this letter we present a recursive method for computing one-loop off-shell amplitudes in colored quantum field theories. First, we generalize the perturbiner method by recasting the multiparticle currents as generators of off-shell tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-14 Humberto Gomez , Renann Lipinski Jusinskas , Cristhiam Lopez-Arcos , Alexander Quintero Velez

We describe BlackHat, an automated C++ program for calculating one-loop amplitudes, and the techniques used in its construction. These include the unitarity method and on-shell recursion. The other ingredients are compact analytic formulae…

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 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

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 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

We discuss the structure of infrared and ultraviolet singularities in on-shell QCD and supersymmetric QCD amplitudes at one-loop order. Previous results, valid for massless partons, are extended to the case of massive partons. Using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Stefano Catani , Stefan Dittmaier , Zoltan Trocsanyi

We report on a technique for evaluating finite unitarity cut for one-loop amplitudes in gauge theories, and discuss its application to the cut-constructible part of six-gluon amplitude in QCD.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We present examples of on-shell recurrence relations for determining rational functions appearing in one-loop QCD amplitudes. In particular, we give relations for one-loop QCD amplitudes with all legs of positive helicity, or with one leg…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

We review progress in calculating one-loop scattering amplitudes required for next-to-leading-order corrections to QCD processes. The underlying technical developments include the spinor helicity formalism, color decompositions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

We present a set of one-loop integral coefficient relations in QCD. The unitarity method is useful for exposing one-loop amplitudes in terms of tree amplitudes. The coefficient relations are induced by tree-level BCJ amplitude relations. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-30 David Chester

We present an algorithm for the numerical calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes. The algorithm consists of subtraction terms, approximating the soft, collinear and ultraviolet divergences of one-loop amplitudes and a method to deform the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-09 Sebastian Becker , Christian Reuschle , Stefan Weinzierl

We compute the one-loop corrections to \tth up to order $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2)$ in the dimensional regularization parameter. We apply the projector method to compute polarized amplitudes, which generalize massless helicity amplitudes to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-18 Federico Buccioni , Philipp Alexander Kreer , Xiao Liu , Lorenzo Tancredi

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

We review on-shell and unitarity methods and discuss their application to precision predictions for LHC physics. Being universal and numerically robust, these methods are straight-forward to automate for next-to-leading-order computations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Harald Ita

We combine the six-dimensional helicity formalism of Cheung and O'Connell with D-dimensional generalized unitarity to obtain a new formalism for computing one-loop amplitudes in dimensionally regularized QCD. With this procedure, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Scott Davies

We review recent progress in calculations of one-loop QCD amplitudes. By imposing the consistency requirements of unitarity and correct behavior as the momenta of two legs become collinear, we construct ansatze for one-loop amplitudes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

We review techniques simplifying the analytic calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes with many external legs, for use in next-to-leading-order corrections to multi-jet processes. We explain how a supersymmetry-inspired organization works…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Dixon

The quantum effects encapsulated in loop corrections are crucial in quantum field theory for a wide variety of formal and phenomenological applications. In this article we propose and check a definition of the so-called single cut…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-18 Rutger H. Boels , Hui Luo

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

Recently, it has been shown that the holomorphic anomaly of unitarity cuts can be used as a tool in determining the one-loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. It is interesting to examine whether this method can be applied to more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 Steven J. Bidder , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Lance J. Dixon , David C. Dunbar