We present analytic expressions for the one-loop QCD helicity amplitudes contributing to top-quark pair production in association with a photon or a jet at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), evaluated through O(e2) in the dimensional regularisation parameter, e. These amplitudes are required to construct the two-loop hard functions that enter the NNLO QCD computation. The helicity amplitudes are expressed as linear combinations of algebraically independent components of the e-expanded master integrals-known as pentagon function-with the corresponding rational coefficients written in terms of momentum-twistor variables. We derive differential equations for the pentagon functions and solve them numerically using the generalised power series expansion method.
Bera, S., Brancaccio, C., Canko, D., Hartanto, H.B. (2025). One-loop amplitudes for $t\bar{t}j$ and $t\bar{t}\gamma$ productions at the LHC through $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2)$. SCIPOST PHYSICS, 19(6), 1-35 [10.21468/scipostphys.19.6.165].
One-loop amplitudes for $t\bar{t}j$ and $t\bar{t}\gamma$ productions at the LHC through $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2)$
Canko, Dhimiter;
2025
Abstract
We present analytic expressions for the one-loop QCD helicity amplitudes contributing to top-quark pair production in association with a photon or a jet at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), evaluated through O(e2) in the dimensional regularisation parameter, e. These amplitudes are required to construct the two-loop hard functions that enter the NNLO QCD computation. The helicity amplitudes are expressed as linear combinations of algebraically independent components of the e-expanded master integrals-known as pentagon function-with the corresponding rational coefficients written in terms of momentum-twistor variables. We derive differential equations for the pentagon functions and solve them numerically using the generalised power series expansion method.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


