TY - JOUR
T1 - Seminumerical evaluation of one-loop corrections
AU - Ellis, R. K.
AU - Giele, W. T.
AU - Zanderighi, G.
PY - 2006/1/1
Y1 - 2006/1/1
N2 - We present a seminumerical algorithm to calculate one-loop virtual corrections to scattering amplitudes. The divergences of the loop amplitudes are regulated using dimensional regularization. We only treat in detail the case of amplitudes with up to five external legs and massless internal lines, although we believe the method to be more generally applicable. Tensor integrals are reduced to generalized scalar integrals, which in turn are reduced to a set of known basis integrals using recursion relations. The reduction algorithm is modified near exceptional configurations to ensure numerical stability. To test the procedure we apply these techniques to one-loop corrections to the Higgs to four quark process for which analytic results have recently become available.
AB - We present a seminumerical algorithm to calculate one-loop virtual corrections to scattering amplitudes. The divergences of the loop amplitudes are regulated using dimensional regularization. We only treat in detail the case of amplitudes with up to five external legs and massless internal lines, although we believe the method to be more generally applicable. Tensor integrals are reduced to generalized scalar integrals, which in turn are reduced to a set of known basis integrals using recursion relations. The reduction algorithm is modified near exceptional configurations to ensure numerical stability. To test the procedure we apply these techniques to one-loop corrections to the Higgs to four quark process for which analytic results have recently become available.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.014027
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.014027
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:32644471364
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 73
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 1
M1 - 014027
ER -