Multi-Parton Loop Amplitudes and Next-to-Leading Order Jet Cross-Sections
Abstract
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 --- helicity, color and supersymmetry decompositions, plus unitarity and factorization properties --- it becomes possible to compute multi-parton one-loop QCD amplitudes without ever evaluating analytically standard one-loop Feynman diagrams. One-loop helicity amplitudes are now available for processes with five external partons (ggggg, q\bar{q}ggg and q\bar{q}q'\bar{q}'g), and for an intermediate vector boson V \equiv \gamma^*,Z,W plus four external partons (Vq\bar{q}gg and Vq\bar{q}q'\bar{q}'). Using these amplitudes, numerical programs have been constructed for the next-to-leading order corrections to the processes p\bar{p} to 3 jets (ignoring quark contributions so far) and e^+e^- to 4 jets.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9802264,
title = {Multi-Parton Loop Amplitudes and Next-to-Leading Order Jet Cross-Sections},
author = {Z. Bern and L. Dixon and D. A. Kosower and A. Signer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9802264},
year = {2007}
}
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Latex2e with sprocl.sty, 19 pages with 5 encapsulated figures, presented at International Symposium on QCD Corrections and New Physics, Hiroshima, Japan, October 27-29, 1997