2–8 Sept 2016
Santa Tecla Palace Hotel, Acireale (Catania, Sicily)
Europe/Rome timezone

Computation of NLO processes involving heavy quarks using Loop-Tree Duality

7 Sept 2016, 09:40
20m
Santa Tecla Palace Hotel, Acireale (Catania, Sicily)

Santa Tecla Palace Hotel, Acireale (Catania, Sicily)

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Progress in QCD Progress in QCD (III)

Speaker

Felix Driencourt-Mangin (IFIC)

Description

We present a new method to compute higher-order corrections to physical cross-sections, at Next-to-Leading Order and beyond. This method, based on the Loop Tree Duality, leads to locally integrable expressions in four dimensions. By introducing a physically motivated momentum mapping between the momenta involved in the real and the virtual contributions, infrared singularities naturally disappear at integrand level, without the need to introduce subtraction counter-terms. Ultraviolet singularities are dealt with using dual representations of suitable counter-terms, with some subtleties regarding the self-energy contributions. We first apply this method to a $1\to2$ scalar process, and then compute the decay rate for $H\to q\overline{q}$, $\gamma\to q\overline{q}$ and $Z\to q\overline{q}$.

Primary authors

Felix Driencourt-Mangin (IFIC) German Rodrigo (IFIC Valencia)

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