Efficient Color-Dressed Calculation of Virtual Corrections
Abstract
With the advent of generalized unitarity and parametric integration techniques, the construction of a generic Next-to-Leading Order Monte Carlo becomes feasible. Such a generator will entail the treatment of QCD color in the amplitudes. We extend the concept of color dressing to one-loop amplitudes, resulting in the formulation of an explicit algorithmic solution for the calculation of arbitrary scattering processes at Next-to-Leading order. The resulting algorithm is of exponential complexity, that is the numerical evaluation time of the virtual corrections grows by a constant multiplicative factor as the number of external partons is increased. To study the properties of the method, we calculate the virtual corrections to -gluon scattering.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0911.1962,
title = {Efficient Color-Dressed Calculation of Virtual Corrections},
author = {Walter Giele and Zoltan Kunszt and Jan Winter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.1962},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
48 pages, 23 figures