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Two-loop off-shell QCD amplitudes in FDR

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-12-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We link the FDR treatment of ultraviolet (UV) divergences to dimensional regularization up to two loops in QCD. This allows us to derive the one-loop and two-loop coupling constant and quark mass shifts necessary to translate infrared finite quantities computed in FDR to the MSbar renormalization scheme. As a by-product of our analysis, we solve a problem analogous to the breakdown of unitarity in the Four Dimensional Helicity (FDH) method beyond one loop. A fix to FDH is then presented that preserves the renormalizability properties of QCD without introducing evanescent quantities.

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@article{arxiv.1506.09093,
  title  = {Two-loop off-shell QCD amplitudes in FDR},
  author = {Ben Page and Roberto Pittau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.09093},
  year   = {2015}
}

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25 pages, 6 figures

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