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Efficient Color-Dressed Calculation of Virtual Corrections

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,...

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Autores principales: Giele, Walter, Kunszt, Zoltan, Winter, Jan
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.07.007
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1221245
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Sumario: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.