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We compute next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the top-bottom interference contribution to H+j production at the LHC. To achieve this, we combine the recent computation of the two-loop amplitudes for gg -> Hg and qg -> Hq, performed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-28 Jonas M. Lindert , Kirill Melnikov , Lorenzo Tancredi , Chris Wever

We analytically calculate one- and two-loop helicity amplitudes in massless QED, by adopting a four-dimensional tensor decomposition. We draw our attention to four-fermion and Compton scattering processes to higher orders in the dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-20 Thomas Dave , William J. Torres Bobadilla

In this talk, we present the first, numerically stable, results for the one-loop amplitudes needed for computing W,Z + 3 jet cross sections at the LHC to next-to-leading order in the QCD coupling. We implemented these processes in BlackHat,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-08-08 C. F. Berger , Z. Bern , L. J. Dixon , F. Febres Cordero , D. Forde , H. Ita , D. A. Kosower , D. Maitre

This report describes the recent efforts to compute analytic formulae for the Next-to-Leading-Order (NLO) QCD corrections to Higgs plus two jet production at hadron colliders. In these calculations the Higgs boson couples to gluons via a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Ciaran Williams

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 employ the recently developed method of generalized $D$-dimensional unitarity to compute one-loop virtual corrections to all scattering amplitudes relevant for the production of a $W$ boson in association with three jets in hadronic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-12 R. Keith Ellis , W. T. Giele , Zoltan Kunszt , Kirill Melnikov , Giulia Zanderighi

We present an expression for the QCD amplitude for a general hard scattering process with any number of soft gluon emissions, to one-loop accuracy. The amplitude is written in two different but equivalent ways: as a product of operators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-01 René Ángeles-Martínez , Jeffrey R. Forshaw , Michael H. Seymour

We present an algorithm for the numerical calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes. The algorithm consists of subtraction terms, approximating the soft, collinear and ultraviolet divergences of one-loop amplitudes and a method to deform the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-09 Sebastian Becker , Christian Reuschle , Stefan Weinzierl

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 give explicit formulae for the O(eps) and O(eps^2) contributions to the unrenormalised three loop QCD corrections to quark and gluon form factors. These contributions have at most transcendentality weight eight. The O(eps) terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-15 T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , T. Huber , N. Ikizlerli , C. Studerus

We review progress in calculating one-loop scattering amplitudes required for next-to-leading-order corrections to QCD processes. The underlying technical developments include the spinor helicity formalism, color decompositions,…

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

The four-loop QCD corrections to the electroweak $\rho$-parameter arising from top and bottom quark loops are computed. Specifically we evaluate the missing ``non-singlet'' piece. Using algebraic methods the amplitude is reduced to a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. G. Chetyrkin , M. Faisst , J. H. Kühn , P. Maierhoefer , C. Sturm

We review recent developments for the calculation of Born amplitudes in QCD. This includes the computation of gluon helicity amplitudes from MHV vertices and an approach based on scalar propagators and a set of three- and four-valent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Christian Schwinn , Stefan Weinzierl

In the context of constructing one-loop amplitudes using a unitarity bootstrap approach we discuss a general systematic procedure for obtaining the coefficients of the scalar bubble and triangle integral functions of one-loop amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-07 Darren Forde

We calculate the complete quark and gluon cusp anomalous dimensions in four-loop massless QCD analytically from first principles. In addition, we determine the complete matter dependence of the quark and gluon collinear anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-12 Andreas von Manteuffel , Erik Panzer , Robert M. Schabinger

This article reviews on-shell methods for analytic computation of loop amplitudes, emphasizing techniques based on unitarity cuts. Unitarity techniques are formulated generally but have been especially useful for calculating one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Ruth Britto

We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of Higgs boson pairs in gluon fusion keeping the full dependence on the mass of the top quark. The virtual corrections, involving two-loop integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-10 Matthias Kerner

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

High-energy factorization of 2 -> 2 amplitudes in QCD has been recently pushed to the next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic order by determining the three-loop gluon Regge trajectory. This was based on computing multi-Reggeon exchanges using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 Samuel Abreu , Giuseppe De Laurentis , Giulio Falcioni , Einan Gardi , Calum Milloy , Leonardo Vernazza

We present the first full analytic evaluation of the scattering amplitude for the process $q {\bar q} \to Q {\bar Q}$ up-to two loops in Quantum Chromodynamics, for a massless $(q)$ and a massive $(Q)$ quark flavour. The interference terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 Manoj K. Mandal , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Jonathan Ronca , William J. Torres Bobadilla