Efficient color-dressed calculation of virtual corrections

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2010.07.007zbMATH Open1206.81124arXiv0911.1962OpenAlexW2070828319MaRDI QIDQ627892FDOQ627892

Walter T. Giele, J. Winter, Zoltan Kunszt

Publication date: 4 March 2011

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

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.

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)

Cites Work

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

Cited In (5)

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

Uses Software

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

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