Hepta-cuts of two-loop scattering amplitudes

被引:73
作者
Badger, Simon [1 ]
Frellesvig, Hjalte [1 ]
Zhang, Yang [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Int Acad & Discovery Ctr, Niels Bohr Inst, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
关键词
Scattering Amplitudes; Supersymmetric gauge theory; QCD; ONE-LOOP AMPLITUDES; QCD CORRECTIONS; TREE AMPLITUDES; UNITARITY; INTEGRALS; REDUCTION;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP04(2012)055
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We present a method for the computation of hepta-cuts of two loop scattering amplitudes. Four dimensional unitarity cuts are used to factorise the integrand onto the product of six tree-level amplitudes evaluated at complex momentum values. Using Gram matrix constraints we derive a general parameterisation of the integrand which can be computed using polynomial fitting techniques. The resulting expression is further reduced to master integrals using conventional integration by parts methods. We consider both planar and non-planar topologies for 2 -> 2 scattering processes and apply the method to compute hepta-cut contributions to gluon-gluon scattering in Yang-Mills theory with adjoint fermions and scalars.
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