Testing and improving the numerical accuracy of the NLO predictions

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2010.09.013MaRDI QIDQ548994zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Pittau

Publication date 30 June 2011

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3773

zbMATH Keywords

QCDNLOelectroweak correctionsgeneralized unitarityOPP

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-08) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: I present a new and reliable method to test the numerical accuracy of NLO calculations based on modern OPP/Generalized Unitarity techniques. A convenient solution to rescue most of the detected numerically inaccurate points is also proposed.

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Cited in

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• Automation of one-loop QCD computations
• Feynman rules for the rational part of the electroweak 1-loop amplitudes in the \(R_{\xi }\) gauge and in the unitary gauge
• Tensorial reconstruction at the integrand level

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Uses Software

• BlackHat
• CutTools
• ARPREC

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