Efficient color-dressed calculation of virtual corrections

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2010.07.007MaRDI QIDQ627892zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Walter T. Giele, Zoltan Kunszt, J. Winter

Publication date 4 March 2011

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1962

zbMATH Keywords

NLO computationsQCDhadronic collidersjets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Nuclear physics (81V35) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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 $n$-gluon scattering.

Recommendations

• Numerical NLO QCD calculations
• Full one-loop amplitudes from tree amplitudes
• Recursive calculation of multi-gluon one-loop amplitudes
• \texttt{NGluon}: A package to calculate one-loop multi-gluon amplitudes
• Colour decompositions of multi-quark one-loop QCD amplitudes

Cites work

• Generalized unitarity and one-loop amplitudes in \(\mathcal N=1\) super-Yang-Mills
• HELAC: A package to compute electroweak helicity amplitudes
• One-loop \(n\)-point gauge theory amplitudes, unitarity and collinear limits.
• Reducing full one-loop amplitudes to scalar integrals at the integrand level

Cited in

(6)

• Numerical NLO QCD calculations
• Orthogonal multiplet bases in SU\((N_c)\) color space
• The role of colour flows in matrix element computations and Monte Carlo simulations
• Hepta-cuts of two-loop scattering amplitudes
• Colour decompositions of multi-quark one-loop QCD amplitudes
• Tree amplitudes and color decomposition in broken \(\mathrm{SU}(2)\)

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Uses Software

• PHEGAS
• CompHep
• AMEGIC++
• CutTools
• HELAC
• BlackHat

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