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We discuss new results in QCD obtained with string-based methods. These methods were originally derived from superstring theory and are significantly more efficient than conventional Feynman rules. This technology was a key ingredient in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

Scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory are independent of the field parameterization, which has a natural geometric interpretation as a form of `coordinate invariance.' Amplitudes can be expressed in terms of Riemannian curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Timothy Cohen , Nathaniel Craig , Xiaochuan Lu , Dave Sutherland

We set up a bootstrap problem for renormalization. Working in the massless four-dimensional O$(N)$ model and the $\lambda \phi^4$ theory, we prove that unitarity leads to all-loop recursion relations between coefficients of scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Ameya Chavda , Daniel McLoughlin , Sebastian Mizera , John Staunton

The trace amplitude method (TAM) provides us a straightforward way to calculate the helicity amplitudes with massive fermions analytically. In this work, we review the basic idea of this method, and then discuss how it can be applied to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-05 Zi-Qiang Chen , Cong-Feng Qiao

A method is developed whereby spinor helicity techniques can be used to simplify the calculation of loop amplitudes. This is achieved by using the Feynman-parameter representation where the offending off-shell loop momenta do not appear.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 C. S. Lam

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

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

We compute a complete set of independent leading-color two-loop five-parton amplitudes in QCD. These constitute a fundamental ingredient for the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to three-jet production at hadron colliders. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-09 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , B. Page , V. Sotnikov

We present an extension of the spinor integration formalism of one loop amplitudes from the double-cut to the single-cut case. This technique can be applied for the computation of the tadpole coefficients. Moreover we describe an off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-14 Ruth Britto , Edoardo Mirabella

We compute the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for the process e^+e^- --> q bar{q} g. The amplitudes are extracted in a scheme-independent manner from the coefficients appearing in the general tensorial structure for this process. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 L. W. Garland , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , A. Koukoutsakis , E. Remiddi

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 compute the planar part of the two-loop five gluon amplitude with all helicities positive. To perform the calculation we develop a D-dimensional generalized unitarity procedure allowing us to reconstruct the amplitude by cutting into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-21 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

We study the singularity structure of two-loop QED amplitudes for the production of multiple off-shell photons in massless electron-positron annihilation and develop counterterms that remove their infrared and ultraviolet divergences point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-26 Charalampos Anastasiou , Rayan Haindl , George Sterman , Zhou Yang , Mao Zeng

We present results for the six-gluon scattering amplitude at one-loop. Since our method is semi-numerical, it yields the result for arbitrary momenta and helicities of the external gluons. We evaluate the colour-ordered sub-amplitudes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Giulia Zanderighi

We present a systematic framework for the maximally-transcendental part of planar QCD scattering amplitudes and perform the first bootstrap computation of six-gluon MHV amplitudes in massless QCD at the symbol level. By analyzing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Sérgio Carrôlo , Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Qinglin Yang , Yang Zhang

In this talk we discuss the color decomposition of tree-level and one-loop QCD amplitudes with arbitrary numbers of quarks and gluons. We present a method for the decomposition of partial amplitudes into primitive amplitudes, which is based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-03 Christian Reuschle , Stefan Weinzierl

Form factors of self-dual gauge theory are equal to correlators of an (extended) celestial chiral algebra. This suggests that these form factors can be computed using the "bootstrap" method familiar from 2d CFTs. The method can also be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-11 Kevin J. Costello

A new method of calculation of amplitudes of different processes in quantum electrodynamics is proposed. The method does not use the Feynman technique of trace of product of matrices calculation. The method strongly simplifies calculation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Kostyantyn Karplyuk , Oleksandr Zhmudsky

A method for calculating loop amplitudes at the multiboson threshold is presented, based on Feynman-diagram techniques. We explicitly calculate the one-loop amplitudes in both $\phi^4$-symmetric and broken symmetry cases, using dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 E. N. Argyres , Ronald H. P. Kleiss , Costas G. Papadopoulos

Factorization properties of one-loop gauge theory amplitudes have been used as checks on explicitly computed amplitudes and in the construction of ansatze for higher-point ones. In massless theories, such as QCD at high energies, infrared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Z. Bern , G. Chalmers