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We use the solutions to the recursion relations for double-off-shell fermion currents to compute helicity amplitudes for $n$-photon scattering and electron-positron annihilation to photons in the massless limit of QED. The form of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Gregory Mahlon

We present a prescription to calculate manifestly gauge invariant tree-level helicity amplitudes for arbitrary scattering processes with off-shell initial-state gluons within the kinematics of high-energy scattering. We show that it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-24 A. van Hameren , P. Kotko , K. Kutak

We present recent advancements in the computation of three-loop four-particle helicity amplitudes in full-color massless QCD. In this contribution, we focus on the $gg \to \gamma\gamma$ process. We show how to obtain compact analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Piotr Bargiela

We present the one-loop QCD corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the processes $q\qb \to W^+ W^-, Z Z, W^\pm Z, W^\pm \gamma$, or $Z \gamma$, including the subsequent decay of each massive vector boson into a pair of leptons. We also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 L. Dixon , Z. Kunszt , A. Signer

We present a broad study of collider processes that embed $2 \to 2$ scattering amplitudes involving top quarks in the Electroweak sector. We parametrise the modified interactions using the Standard Model Effective Field Theory framework and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-17 Fabio Maltoni , Luca Mantani , Ken Mimasu

We calculate the complete set of two-loop leading-colour QCD helicity amplitudes for $\gamma \gamma j$-production at hadron colliders. Our results are presented in a compact, fully-analytical form.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-25 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov , Rene Poncelet

HELAC-PHEGAS is a FORTRAN based package that is able to compute automatically and efficiently tree-order helicity amplitudes and cross sections for arbitrary scattering processes within the standard electroweak theory and QCD. The algorithm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Aggeliki Kanaki , Costas G. Papadopoulos

The production of massive quarks and leptons in $e^+e^-$ collisions is studied using exact helicity amplitudes. Total cross sections as a function of $y_{\rm cut}$, in both the JADE and the $k_T$ algorithms, are presented and compared with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Ballestrero , E. Maina , S. Moretti

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 analyze the current matrix elements in the general collinear (Breit) frames and find the relation between the ordinary (or canonical) helicity amplitudes and the light-front helicity amplitudes. Using the conservation of angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carl E. Carlson , Chueng-Ryong Ji

A computing program in Matlab is given that computes amplitudes in scalar $\phi^3$ theory. The program is partitioned into several parts and a simple guide is given for its use.

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers

A precise understanding of LHC phenomenology requires the inclusion of one-loop corrections for multi-particle final states. In this talk we describe a semi-numerical method to compute one-loop amplitudes with many external particles and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Binoth , M. Ciccolini , G. Heinrich

We calculate all the four-photon helicity amplitudes at the one-loop level in a massive theory using multiple-cut methods. The amplitudes are derived in scalar QED, QED and $\textrm{QED}^{\caln =1}$ theories. We will see the origin of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Christophe Bernicot

A way to efficiently compute helicity amplitudes for arbitrary tree-level scattering processes in QCD is presented. The scattering amplitude is evaluated recursively through a set of Dyson-Schwinger equations. The computational cost of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Costas G. Papadopoulos , Malgorzata Worek

We review techniques simplifying the analytic calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes with many external legs, for use in next-to-leading-order corrections to multi-jet processes. Particularly useful are the constraints imposed by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Z. Bern , G. Chalmers , L. Dixon , D. C. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

Statistical moments of particle multiplicities in heavy-ion collision experiments are an important probe in the exploration of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter and, particularly, in the search for the QCD critical end point.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-01 Maurício Hippert , Eduardo S. Fraga

Recent Developments in computing very specific helicity amplitudes in two loop QCD are presented. The techniques focus upon the singular structure of the amplitude rather than on a diagramatic and integration approach

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-15 David C. Dunbar , John H Godwin , Guy R. Jehu , Warren B. Perkins

The modularity property of the helicity formalism is used to provide amplitude expressions and stage-two spin-correlation functions which can easily be used in direct experimental searches for electro-weak symmetries and dynamics in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Charles A. Nelson , Brian T. Kress , Marco Lopes , Thomas P. McCauley

As continuation of our previous paper we further develop our new method for calculating helicity amplitudes of jet-like QED processes described by tree diagrams, applying it to lepton pair production. This method consists in replacing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 C. Carimalo , A. Schiller , V. G. Serbo

We present an enumeration of all possible amplitudes that contribute to an n-jet process in QCD. We estimate the number of amplitudes for large number of jets and determine the actual number of amplitudes to be calculated, which is smaller…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Petros D. Draggiotis , Ronald Kleiss