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Twistor Inspired techniques in Perturbative Gauge Theories-II. David Dunbar, Swansea University, Wales. including work with Z. Bern, S Bidder, E Bjerrum-Bohr, L. Dixon, H Ita, W Perkins K. Risager. KIAS-KIAST 2005. Seminar II. Hadron Colliders, LHC Need for NLO computations - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Twistor Inspired techniques in Perturbative Gauge Theories-II
including work with Z. Bern, S Bidder, E
Bjerrum-Bohr, L. Dixon, H Ita, W Perkins K. Risager
KIAS-KIAST KIAS-KIAST 2005
David Dunbar,
Swansea University, Wales
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Seminar II
Hadron Colliders, LHC
Need for NLO computations
Pieces of NLO computations
QCD calculations
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Hadron Colliders LHC
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LHC Physics
-hadron machines are DISCOVERY machines (SPS:W+Z,Tevatron: t)
-LHC will “hunt the higgs”
-hunt SUSY
-hunt new physics
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Higgs Production and Decay
H
g
g
W/Z
W/Z
-four final state particles end-point of Higgs production-very often four jets
eg
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-most decay end-points of new physics can be simulated by background standard model processes
-very important to have robust accurate predictions for
background decay rates/event shapes/angular distribution
based upon known physics
-jets are “inclusive processess” : experimentally we cannot
distinguish colour, helicity, spin.
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Pieces of Theoretical Prediction
Probability of producing final state =
Structure FunctionsMatrix Elements Hadronisation
-piece that twistors may help with
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Need for NLO Matrix Elements calculations for jets
Consider 2g -> 2g
+g4
2
g2
2
2
g3
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g2+g4 +g6
2
2
2
g3
g4
+g5
NNLO
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Wny is NLO neccessary
-accurancy, QCD is strong(ish)
-scale dependance
-cone-size dependance
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One-Loop Amplitudes
One Loop Gluon Scattering Amplitudes in QCD
-Four Point : Ellis+Sexton
-Five Point : Bern, Dixon,Kosower
-Six-Point and beyond--- present problem
-Five and Six-Point mixed procecess
n-point MHV amplitudes supersymmetric theories
Bern,Dixon,Dunbar and Kosower 94/95
Six-point N=4 amplitudes
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General Decomposition of One-loop Amplitude
Linear in loop momentum propagators
n
degree n in l
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Passerino-Veltman reduction
Decomposes a n-point integral into a sum of (n-1) integral functions obtained by collaspsing a propagator
k
l
l-k
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-process continues until we reach four-point integral functions with (in yang-mills up to quartic numerators)
-similarly 3-> 2 also gives scalar triangles. At bubbles process ends. Quadratic bubbles can be rational functions involving no logarithms.
-so in general, for massless particles
Functions of a single kinematic invariant, ln(s)
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Supersymmetric Decomposition
Supersymmetric gluon scattering amplitudes are the linear combination of
QCD ones+scalar loop
-this can be inverted
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N=4 One-Loop Amplitudes –solved!
Amplitude is a a sum of scalar box functions with rational coefficients (BDDK,1994)
Coefficients are ``cut-constructable’’ (BDDK,1994)
Quadruple cuts turns calculus into algebra (Britto,Cachazo,Feng,2005)
Box Coefficients are actually coefficients of terms like
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N=4 Susy
In N=4 susy there are cancelations between the states of different spin circulating in the loop.
Leading four-powers of loop momentum cancel (in well chosen gauges..)
N=4 lie in a small subspace of the allowed possible amplitudes
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Basis in N=4 Theory
‘‘easy’ two-mass easy’ two-mass boxbox
‘‘hard’ two-mass hard’ two-mass boxbox
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Box-Coefficients
-works for massless corners (complex momenta)
S
Britto,Cachazo,Feng
or signature (--++)-works for non-supersymmetric
Bjerrum-Bohr,Bidder,DCD,Perkins
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Box Coefficients-Twistor Structure
Box coefficients has coplanar support for NMHV 1-loop
amplitudes
-true for both N=4 and QCD!!!
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N=1 One-Loop Amplitudes -????
Important to choose a good basis of functions
A) choose chiral multiplet
B) use D=6 boxes
Amplitude also cut constructible
-six gluon amplitudes now obtained using unitarity
Bidder,Bjerrum-Bohr,Dixon, Dunbar, PerkinsBritto, Buchbinder Cachazo, Feng, 04/05
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The Final Pieces : scalar contributions
-last component of QCD amplitudes- R is rational and not cut constructible (to
O())
cut construcible
recursive?recursive?
-can we avoid direct integration?
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Recursion for Rational terms
-can we shift R and obtain it from its factorisation?
1) Function must be rational
2) Function must have simple poles
3) We must understand these poles
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-understanding poles
-multiparticle factorisation
theoremsBern,Chalmers
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Complication,
Either R or the coefficients of integral functions may contain Spurious Singularities which are not present in the full amplitude
It is important and non-trivial to find shift(s) which avoid these spurious singularities whilst still affecting the full R/coefficient
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Example of Spurious singularities
Collinear Singularity Multi-particle
poleCo-planar singularity
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Splitting Amplitude into C and R is not unique
The integral functions can be defined to include rational pieces, e.g
rather than
avoids a spurious singularity as r1 (r=s/s’)
Spurious singularities spoil understanding of residues – can we avoid them?
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Results:
It has been demonstrated, using
A) (-++….+++), (+++++….++) and
B) (--++++) and (--++….+++)
that shifts can be found which allow calculation of rational parts recursivelyBern, Dixon Kosower
1)
2) Shifts can be found which allow the integral coefficients to be computed
recursivelyA(---..--+++…++)
Bern, Bjerrum-Bohr, Dunbar, Ita
Forde, Kosower
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State of Play Six Gluon Scattering
X
X X
XX
X
X
X
X
X X
X X
X
X
XX
2g- 4g
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Conclusions-Reasons for optimism in computing one-loop QCD matrix
elements
-Recent progress uses UNITARITY and FACTORISATION as key features of on-shell amplitudes
-Inspired by Weak-Weak duality but not dependant upon it
-after much progress in highly super-symmetric theories the (harder) problem of QCD beginning to yield results
-first complete result for a partial 2g ng amplitude!
-NNLO is the goal for LHC
-analytic vs. numerical?
-fermions, masses, multi-loops,…..