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We calculate the two-loop QCD correction to the form factors of on-shell b-quark decay to an energetic massless quark, which constitutes the last missing piece required for an O(alpha_s^2) determination of |V_ub| from inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Beneke , T. Huber , Xin-Qiang Li

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

We report on the two-loop amplitude computation for the mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to the process $gg \to Hg$, with exact dependence on the electroweak boson masses. This amplitude has been employed in the computation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-11 Matteo Becchetti , Francesco Moriello , Armin Schweitzer

We calculate the next-to-next-to-leading order ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^4)$ one-loop squared corrections to the production of heavy-quark pairs in the gluon-gluon fusion process. Together with the previously derived results on the $q \bar{q}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 B. Kniehl , J. G. Körner , Z. Merebashvili , M. Rogal

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 discuss the current status of the investigations of the conformal symmetry breaking contributions to three forms for the QCD generalizations of the Crewther relation. The new third form of the extension of this relation is considered in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-01-16 A. L. Kataev , S. V. Mikhailov

We present the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) contributions to the main splitting functions for the evolution of longitudinally polarized parton densities of hadrons in perturbative QCD. The quark-quark and gluon-quark splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Moch , J. A. M. Vermaseren , A. Vogt

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

In this paper we calculate at high-precision the Laurent expansions in e=(4-D)/2 of the 17 master integrals which appeared in the analytical calculation of 3-loop QED contribution to the electron g-2, using difference and differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. Laporta

We review recent progress in D-dimensional integrand reduction algorithms for two loop amplitudes and give examples of their application to non-planar maximal cuts of the five-point all-plus helicity amplitude in QCD.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-14 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

Recent progress in unitarity techniques for one-loop scattering amplitudes makes a numerical implementation of this method possible. We present a 4-dimensional unitarity method for calculating the cut-constructible part of amplitudes and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Z. Kunszt

We will report on an ongoing effort towards calculating the N4LO perturbative QCD corrections to the DIS total inclusive cross-section. We are developing a method based on differential equations and series expansion in the inverse Bjorken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-03 Avanish Basdew-Sharma

The coefficient functions of the gluon condensate $<G^2>$, in the correlators of heavy-quark vector, axial, scalar and pseudoscalar currents, are obtained analytically, to two loops, for all values of $z=q^2/4m^2$. In the limiting cases…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 D. J. Broadhurst , P. A. Baikov , V. A. Ilyin , J. Fleischer , O. V. Tarasov , V. A. Smirnov

We report on the next-to-leading order QCD calculation for e+ e- --> 4 jets. We explain some modern techniques which have been used to calculate the one-loop amplitudes efficiently. We further report on the general purpose numerical program…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefan Weinzierl

We briefly discuss the status of the NNLL QCD calculations in the inclusive rare B decay $B \to X_s \ell^+ \ell^-$. Two important ingredients, the two-loop matrix elements of the four quark operator ${\cal O}_2$ and the bremsstrahlung…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Ghinculov , T. Hurth , G. Isidori , Y. -P. Yao

We complete the calculation of the QCD penguin amplitude at next-to-next-to-leading order in the QCD factorization approach to non-leptonic B-meson decays. This provides the last missing piece in the computation of the QCD correction to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Guido Bell , Martin Beneke , Tobias Huber , Xin-Qiang Li

We compute the three-loop QCD corrections to the decoupling constant for $\alpha_s$ which relates the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model to Quantum Chromodynamics with five or six active flavours. The new results can be used to study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Alexander Kurz , Matthias Steinhauser , Nikolai Zerf

We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to b \to c l \bar \nu_l decay rate at a fully differential level. Arbitrary cuts on kinematic variables of the decay products can be imposed. Our computation can be used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Kirill Melnikov

We compute corrections of order $\alpha_s^3$ to the decay $b \to c \ell \bar\nu$ taking into account massive charm quarks. In the on-shell scheme large three-loop corrections are found. However, in the kinetic scheme the three-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-16 Matteo Fael , Kay Schönwald , Matthias Steinhauser

I have evaluated up to 1100 digits of precision the contribution of the 891 4-loop Feynman diagrams contributing to the electron $g$-$2$ in QED. The total mass-independent 4-loop contribution is $ a_e =…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Stefano Laporta