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We present the leading-color two-loop QCD corrections for the scattering of four partons and a $W$ boson, including its leptonic decay. The amplitudes are assembled from the planar two-loop helicity amplitudes for four partons and a vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-12 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Klinkert , B. Page , V. Sotnikov

I provide a basic introduction to modern helicity amplitude methods, including color organization, the spinor helicity formalism, and factorization properties. I also describe the BCFW (on-shell) recursion relation at tree level, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-02 Lance J. Dixon

We present the two-loop QCD corrections to the amplitude of the Higgs production associated with a $Z$ boson via the bottom quark-antiquark annihilation channel with a non-vanishing bottom-quark Yukawa coupling. The computation is performed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-16 Taushif Ahmed , A. H. Ajjath , Long Chen , Prasanna K. Dhani , Pooja Mukherjee , V. Ravindran

We review recent developments in the calculation of QCD loop amplitudes with several external legs, and their application to next-to-leading order jet production cross-sections. When a number of calculational tools are combined together ---…

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

One-loop amplitudes are to a large extent determined by their unitarity cuts in four dimensions. We show that the remaining rational terms can be obtained from the ultraviolet behaviour of the amplitude, and determine universal form factors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 T. Binoth , J. Ph. Guillet , G. Heinrich

A method to derive the convenient representations for many two-photon amplitudes is suggested. It is based on the use of the gauge in which the photon propagator has only space components. The amplitudes obtained have no any strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-16 P. A. Krachkov , A. I. Milstein , A. G. Shamov

We compute the two-loop massless QCD corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the production of two electroweak gauge bosons in the gluon fusion channel, $gg \to V_1 V_2$, keeping the virtuality of the vector bosons $V_1$ and $V_2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-14 Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

We calculate one loop scattering amplitudes for arbitrary number of positive helicity on-shell gluons and one off-shell gluon treated within the quasi-multi Regge kinematics. The result is fully gauge invariant and possesses the correct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-05 Etienne Blanco , Andreas van Hameren , Piotr Kotko , Krzysztof Kutak

The spinor-helicity formalism has become an invaluable tool for understanding the S-matrix of massless particles in four dimensions. In this paper we construct a spinor-helicity formalism in six dimensions, and apply it to derive compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-24 Clifford Cheung , Donal O'Connell

We obtain the two-loop QCD corrections to the Higgs plus three-parton amplitudes with dimension-seven operators in Higgs effective field theory. This provides the two-loop S-matrix elements for Higgs plus one-jet production at the LHC with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Qingjun Jin , Gang Yang

We re-compute the recently derived two-loop five-point all plus Yang-Mills amplitude using Unitarity and Recursion. Recursion requires augmented recursion to determine the sub-leading pole. Using these methods the simplicity of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-27 David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins

An algorithm, based on the OPP reduction method, to automatically compute any one-loop amplitude, for all momentum, color and helicity configurations of the external particles, is presented. It has been implemented using the tree-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 A. van Hameren , C. G. Papadopoulos , R. Pittau

Compact results are obtained for tree-level non-MHV amplitudes of six fermions and of four fermions and two gluons, by using extended BCF/BCFW rules. Combining with previous results, complete set of tree amplitudes of six partons are now…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Mingxing Luo , Congkao Wen

A way to efficiently compute helicity amplitudes for arbitrary tree-level scattering processes in QCD is presented. The scattering amplitude is evaluated recursively through a set of Dyson-Schwinger equations. The computational cost of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Costas G. Papadopoulos , Malgorzata Worek

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of massless quarks in QCD. We use projector techniques to compute the coefficients of the general four-quark amplitude at up to two-loops in conventional dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 E. W. N. Glover

We compute the non-factorisable contribution to the two-loop helicity amplitude for $t$-channel single-top production, the last missing piece of the two-loop virtual corrections to this process. Our calculation employs analytic reduction to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Kirill Melnikov , Jérémie Quarroz , Chen-Yu Wang

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

We complete the computation of two-loop helicity amplitudes required to obtain next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections for three-jet production at hadron colliders, including all contributions beyond the leading-color approximation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Vasily Sotnikov

I discuss the recent advances in the computation of two-loop scattering amplitudes for five-particle processes. The latter are fundamental ingredients to obtain predictions at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD for many…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-09 Simone Zoia

We study the small--angle double bremsstrahlung in $e^-e^\pm$ scattering for a jet kinematics where both photons move along the electron direction. This region gives the main contribution to the cross section. We present analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Kuraev , A. Schiller , V. Serbo , B. Shaikhatdenov