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We present a technique which utilizes unitarity and collinear limits to construct ansatze for one-loop amplitudes in gauge theory. As an example, we obtain the one-loop contribution to amplitudes for $n$ gluon scattering in $N=4$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. C. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

We develop an algorithm of polynomial complexity for evaluating one-loop amplitudes with an arbitrary number of external particles. The algorithm is implemented in the Rocket program. Starting from particle vertices given by Feynman rules,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-05 W. T. Giele , G. Zanderighi

We propose a new ``universal expansion" for one-loop amplitudes with arbitrary number of gluons in $D$ dimensions, which holds for general gauge theories with gluons/fermions/scalars in the loop, including pure and supersymmetric Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Qu Cao , Jin Dong , Song He , Fan Zhu

We find an unexpected iterative structure within the two-loop five-gluon amplitude in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Specifically, we show that a subset of diagrams contributing to the full amplitude, including a two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Freddy Cachazo , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Generalised unitarity techniques are used to calculate the coefficients of box and triangle integral functions of one-loop gluon scattering amplitudes in gauge theories with $N < 4$ supersymmetries. We show that the box coefficients in N=1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven J. Bidder , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins

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 review the recently developed bootstrap method for the computation of high-multiplicity QCD amplitudes at one loop. We illustrate the general algorithm step by step with a six-point example. The method combines (generalized) unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carola F. Berger

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 analyse one-loop graviton amplitudes in the field theory limit of a genus-one string theory computation. The considered amplitudes can be dimensionally reduced to lower dimensions preserving maximal supersymmetry. The particular case of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Pierre Vanhove

We show that one-loop amplitudes in massless gauge theories can be determined from single cuts. By cutting a single propagator and putting it on-shell, the integrand of an n-point one-loop integral is transformed into an (n+2)-particle tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-25 E. W. Nigel Glover , Ciaran Williams

We illustrate the use of recursion relations in the computation of certain one-loop helicity amplitudes containing an arbitrary number of gauge bosons. After a brief review of the recursion relations themselves, we discuss the resolution of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory Mahlon

We consider one-loop five-point QCD amplitudes in next-to-multi-Regge kinematics, and evaluate the one-loop impact factor for the emission of two gluons. This is the last ingredient which is necessary to evaluate the gluon-jet impact factor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-30 Marc Canay , Vittorio Del Duca

We consider a Higgs boson coupled to gluons via the five-dimensional effective operator H Tr G_{munu}G^{munu} produced by considering the heavy top quark limit of the one-loop coupling of Higgs and gluons in the standard model. We treat H…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-21 S. D. Badger , E. W. N. Glover , Kasper Risager

We study integrals appearing in one-loop amplitudes in string theory, and in particular their analytic continuation based on a string theoretic analog of the $i\varepsilon$-prescription of quantum field theory. For various zero- and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-06 Jan Manschot , Zhi-Zhen Wang

We compute the one-loop QCD amplitude for the process gg-->Q\bar{Q} in dimensional regularization through order \epsilon^2 in the dimensional regulator and for arbitrary quark mass values. This result is an ingredient of the NNLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-30 Charalampos Anastasiou , S. Mert Aybat

The unitarity method for calculating one-loop amplitudes provides algorithms of polynomial complexity. This is primarily beneficial for the computation of multi-leg one loop amplitudes and it is therefore of great interest to develop a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-14 R. Keith Ellis , Walter T. Giele , Zoltan Kunszt

We calculate one-loop 2-point tachyon amplitudes in unoriented open-closed string field theory, and determine all the coupling constants of the interaction vertices in the theory. It is shown that the planar, nonplanar and nonorientable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Tsuguhiko Asakawa , Taichiro Kugo , Tomohiko Takahashi

We present the publicly available program NGluon allowing the numerical evaluation of primitive amplitudes at one-loop order in massless QCD. The program allows the computation of one-loop amplitudes for an arbitrary number of gluons. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-02 Simon Badger , Benedikt Biedermann , Peter Uwer

We compute the leading colour contributions to five-gluon scattering at two loops in massless QCD. The integrands of all independent helicity amplitudes are evaluated using d-dimensional generalised unitarity cuts and finite field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Tiziano Peraro

A compact representation of the loop amplitude gamma gamma ggg -> 0 is presented. The result has been obtained by using helicity methods and sorting with respect to an irreducible function basis. We show how to convert spinor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Binoth , J. Ph. Guillet , F. Mahmoudi