From Multileg Loops to Trees (by-passing Feynman's Tree Theorem)
We illustrate a duality relation between one-loop integrals and single-cut phase-space integrals. The duality relation is realised by a modification of the customary +i0 prescription of the Feynman propagators. The new prescription regularizing the propagators, which we write in a Lorentz covariant form, compensates for the absence of multiple-cut contributions that appear in the Feynman Tree Theorem. The duality relation can be extended to generic one-loop quantities, such as Green's functions, in any relativistic, local and unitary field theories. The physics program of LHC requires the evaluation of multi-leg signal and background processes at next-to-leading order (NLO). In the recent years, important efforts have been devoted to the calculation of many 2 {yields} 3 processes and some 2 {yields} 4 processes. We have recently proposed a method to compute multi-leg one-loop cross sections in perturbative field theories. The method uses combined analytical and numerical techniques. The starting point of the method is a duality relation between one-loop integrals and phase-space integrals. In this respect, the duality relation has analogies with the Feynman's Tree Theorem (FTT). The key difference with the FTT is that the duality relation involves only single cuts of the one-loop Feynman diagrams. In this talk, we illustrate the duality relation, and discuss its correspondence, similarities, and differences with the FTT.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 1027217
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-14635; arXiv:0807.0531; TRN: US1105179
- Journal Information:
- Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.183:262-267,2008, Conference: To appear in the proceedings of 9th Workshop on Elementary Particle Theory: Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory, Sondershausen, Germany, 20-25 Apr 2008
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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