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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 the status of on-going efforts to compute the two-loop virtual corrections to $pp\to t\bar{t} j$ in the leading colour approximation. We review the recent study of the master integrals and their differential equations and present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-20 Simon Badger

We review the current status of perturbative corrections in QCD at four loops for scattering processes with space- and time-like kinematics at colliders, with specific focus on deep-inelastic scattering and electron-positron annihilation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-19 S. Moch , V. Magerya

We present the tree-level amplitudes involving one, two and three photons that are required for next-to-leading order QCD calculations of production rates of three final-state particles. We also present the required one-loop amplitudes in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Vittorio Del Duca , William B. Kilgore , Fabio Maltoni

We compute the complete one-loop corrections to the simplest class of QCD gluon amplitudes, those with two color-adjacent opposite-helicity external particles. We present results for an arbitrary number of external legs. The computation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

We present advances in the development of the numerical unitarity method for the computation of multi-loop amplitudes in QCD. As an application, we show results for all the leading-color two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitudes. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-26 Samuel Abreu , Fernando Febres Cordero , Harald Ita , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

We calculate the one-loop QCD corrections for the decay of an off-shell vector boson with vector couplings into two pairs of quarks of equal or unequal flavours keeping all orders in the number of colours. These matrix elements are relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. W. N. Glover , D. J. Miller

We construct a specific formalism for calculating the one-loop virtual corrections for standard model processes with an arbitrary number of external legs. The procedure explicitly separates the infrared and ultraviolet divergences…

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

We discuss new techniques developed in recent years for performing one-loop calculations in QCD, and present an example of results from the process 0 -> V q q-bar g g. Talk presented at the 1996 Zeuthen Workshop on Elementary Particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

We compute the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the production of three photons at hadron colliders in QCD at leading-color. Using the two-loop numerical unitarity method coupled with analytic reconstruction techniques, we obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-20 S. Abreu , B. Page , E. Pascual , V. Sotnikov

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

In this paper we discuss techniques, which lead to a significant improvement of the efficiency of the Monte Carlo integration, when one-loop QCD amplitudes are calculated numerically with the help of the subtraction method and contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Sebastian Becker , Christian Reuschle , Stefan Weinzierl

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes contributing to the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD predictions for W-boson production in association with two photons at the Large Hadron Collider. We derived compact analytic expressions for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-27 Simon Badger , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Zihao Wu , Yang Zhang , Simone Zoia

I describe how to calculate cross sections for hard-scattering processes in high energy collisions at next to leading order in QCD. I consider infrared-safe quantities and I assume that the scattering amplitudes are known in analytic form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Kunszt

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 present a detailed calculation of next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the $tW$ associated production using the one cutoff phase space slicing method. Such QCD corrections have been calculated independently by two groups already,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-01-11 Qing-Hong Cao

We present some techniques which have been developed recently or in the recent past to compute Feynman graphs beyond one-loop order. These techniques are useful to compute the three-loop splitting functions in QCD and to obtain the complete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 W. L. van Neerven

We review recent progress in next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) perturbative QCD calculations with special emphasis on results ready for phenomenological applications. Important examples are new results on structure functions and jet or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Klasen

We present a numerical implementation for virtual corrections to multi-jet production at Next-to-Leading order. Using the algorithm of generalised unitarity we compute primitive amplitudes from tree-level input. These basic ingredients are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-01-06 Simon Badger , Benedikt Biedermann , Peter Uwer

The recently developed on-shell bootstrap for computing one-loop amplitudes in non-supersymmetric theories such as QCD combines the unitarity method with loop-level on-shell recursion. For generic helicity configurations, the recursion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carola F. Berger , Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , Darren Forde , David A. Kosower