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We study the renormalization group of generic effective field theories that include gravity. We follow the on-shell amplitude approach, which provides a simple and efficient method to extract anomalous dimensions avoiding complications from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Pietro Baratella , Dominik Haslehner , Maximilian Ruhdorfer , Javi Serra , Andreas Weiler

We compute all helicity amplitudes for the scattering of five partons in two-loop QCD in all the relevant flavor configurations, retaining all contributing color structures. We employ tensor projection to obtain helicity amplitudes in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-01 Bakul Agarwal , Federico Buccioni , Federica Devoto , Giulio Gambuti , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

We present the leading-color two-loop QCD corrections for Higgs-boson production in association with two jets through gluon fusion in the heavy-top effective theory. We provide analytic expressions for the finite remainders of the helicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Viktor Kuschke , Michael Ruf , Vasily Sotnikov

The state-of-the-art in current two-loop QCD amplitude calculations is at five-particle scattering. Computing two-loop six-particle processes requires knowledge of the corresponding one-loop amplitudes to higher orders in the dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Johannes M. Henn , Antonela Matijašić , Julian Miczajka

We compute the next-to-MHV one-loop n-gluon amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. These amplitudes contain three negative-helicity gluons and an arbitrary number of positive-helicity gluons, and are the first infinite series of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

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

The use of complex analysis for computing one-loop scattering amplitudes is naturally induced by generalised unitarity-cut conditions, fulfilled by complex values of the loop variable. We report on two techniques: the cut-integration with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We present a calculation of the helicity amplitudes for the process $gg\to\gamma\gamma$ in three-loop massless QCD. We employ a recently proposed method to calculate scattering amplitudes in the 't Hooft-Veltman scheme that reduces the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-05 Piotr Bargiela , Fabrizio Caola , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

The ability to calculate analytic full-colour two-to-three two-loop helicity amplitudes in massless QCD has been a recent triumph of the field, driving phenomenology towards one percent precision. In this contribution, we focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-31 Ryan Moodie

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 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

We consider the low momentum expansion of the four graviton and the two graviton--two gluon amplitudes in heterotic string theory at one loop in ten dimensions, and analyze contributions upto the D^2 R^4 interaction from the four graviton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Anirban Basu

We study one-loop effects of sfermions on helicity amplitudes for $\eeww$ in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The one-loop contributions are calculated in the $\bar{\rm MS}$ renormalization scheme. In order to verify the validity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Sher Alam , Kaoru Hagiwara , Shinya Kanemura , Robert Szalapski , Yoshiaki Umeda

Light cone perturbation theory has become an essential tool to calculate cross sections for various small-$x$ dilute-dense processes such as deep inelastic scattering and forward proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions. Here we set out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Tuomas Lappi , Risto Paatelainen

Massive spinor-helicity variables in four dimensions are a useful tool for studying amplitudes between higher-spin fields and gravitons. Among them a special, simple set of amplitudes reproduces the linearized stress-energy tensor of a Kerr…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Lucile Cangemi , Iustin Surubaru

We present a calculation of the rational terms in two-loop all-plus gluon amplitudes using $D$-dimensional unitarity. We use a conjecture of separability of the two loops, and then a simple generalization of one-loop $D$-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-30 David A. Kosower , Sebastian Pögel

We identify a large class of one-loop amplitudes for massless particles that can be constructed via unitarity from tree amplitudes, without any ambiguities. One-loop amplitudes for massless supersymmetric gauge theories fall into this…

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

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

We show, for previously uncalculated examples containing a uniform mass in the loop, that it is possible to obtain complete massive one-loop gauge theory amplitudes solely from unitarity and known ultraviolet or infrared mass singularities.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Bern , A. G. Morgan

We propose to make use of the off-shell recursive relations with the color-flow decomposition in the calculation of QCD amplitudes on MadGraph. We introduce colored quarks and their interactions with nine gluons in the color-flow basis plus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-08 Kaoru Hagiwara , Yoshitaro Takaesu