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We present advances in the development of the numerical unitarity method for the computation of multi-loop amplitudes in QCD. As an application, we show results for all the leading-color two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitudes. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-26 Samuel Abreu , Fernando Febres Cordero , Harald Ita , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

We present the first public version of Caravel, a C++17 framework for the computation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory, based on the numerical unitarity method. Caravel is composed of modules for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 S. Abreu , J. Dormans , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Kraus , B. Page , E. Pascual , M. S. Ruf , V. Sotnikov

A method to define and calculate one-loop amplitudes with an off-shell space-like, or $k_T$-dependent, gluon is presented. It introduces a practical regularization to deal with the divergencies that appear due to linear denominators, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-01 A. van Hameren

We recompute the functions describing the collinear factorization of one-loop amplitudes using the unitarity-based method. We present the results in a form suitable for use as an ingredient in two-loop calculations. We also present a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 David A. Kosower , Peter Uwer

Using the method of on-shell recursion relations we compute tree level amplitudes including D-dimensional scalars and fermions. These tree level amplitudes are needed for calculations of one-loop amplitudes in QCD involving external quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Callum Quigley , Moshe Rozali

We review some of the modern approaches to scattering amplitude computations in QCD and their application to precision LHC phenomenology. We emphasise the usefulness of momentum twistor variables in parameterising general amplitudes.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Simon Badger

We recently presented a new method for the evaluation of one-loop amplitude of arbitrary scattering processes, in which the reduction to scalar integrals is performed at the integrand level. In this talk, we review the main features of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-09-17 Giovanni Ossola

The possibility of treating colour in one-loop amplitude calculations alike the other quantum numbers is briefly discussed for semi-numerical algorithms based on generalized unitarity and parametric integration techniques. Numerical results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Jan Winter

Any loop QCD amplitude at full colour is constructed from kinematic and gauge-group building blocks. In a unitarity-based on-shell framework, both objects can be reconstructed from their respective counterparts in tree-level amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-15 Alexander Ochirov , Ben Page

We compute the complete one-loop corrections to the simplest class of QCD gluon amplitudes, those with two color-adjacent opposite-helicity external particles. We present results for an arbitrary number of external legs. The computation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

We review on the recent developments for the computation of scattering amplitudes, with attention to the on-shell formalisms and unitarity-based methods.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Pierpaolo Mastrolia

In unitarity cut method, compact input of on-shell tree level amplitudes is crucial to simplify calculations. Although BCFW on-shell recursion relation gives very compact tree level amplitudes, they usually contain spurious poles. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Bo Feng , Gang Yang

We use on-shell recursion relations to compute analytically the one-loop corrections to maximally-helicity-violating n-gluon amplitudes in QCD. The cut-containing parts have been computed previously; our work supplies the remaining rational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carola F. Berger , Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

We discuss the structure of infrared singularities in on-shell QCD amplitudes at two-loop order. We present a general factorization formula that controls all the $\ep$-poles of the dimensionally regularized amplitudes. The dependence on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefano Catani

We use on-shell recursion relations to determine the one-loop QCD scattering amplitudes with a massless external quark pair and an arbitrary number (n-2) of positive-helicity gluons. These amplitudes are the last of the unknown infrared-…

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

In this talk we discuss a purely numerical approach to next-to-leading order calculations in QCD. We present a simple formula, which provides a local infrared subtraction term for the integrand of a one-loop amplitude. In addition we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 M. Assadsolimani , S. Becker , Ch. Reuschle , S. Weinzierl

We develop an on-shell framework for matching ultraviolet (UV) theories to low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) at loop level, based on the unitary cut method. By promoting unitarity double-cuts to $d=4-2\epsilon$ dimensions, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-19 Ziyu Dong , Cihang Li , Teng Ma , Jing Shu , Zizheng Zhou

A general formalism for computing only the rational parts of oneloop QCD amplitudes is developed. Starting from the Feynman integral representation of the one-loop amplitude, we use tensor reduction and recursive relations to compute the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhi-Guang Xiao , Gang Yang , Chuan-Jie Zhu

We review the current status of high-multiplicity double-virtual QCD corrections to processes relevant for LHC phenomenology. In particular, we discuss the recent full-color calculation of the five-parton process, whose two-loop amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-27 Giuseppe De Laurentis

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