The one-loop amplitude for six-gluon scattering

Journal article

We present results for the six-gluon scattering amplitude at one-loop. Since our method is semi-numerical, it yields the result for arbitrary momenta and helicities of the external gluons. We evaluate the colour-ordered sub-amplitudes with gluons, fermions and scalars running in the internal loop. This is more than sufficient to give a complete description of six-gluon scattering at one-loop in QCD. Combination of these results into amplitudes with N = 4 and N = 1 multiplets of supersymmetric Yang-Mills or with a complex scalar in the internal loops allows comparison with analytic results in the literature. The numerical results for most of the helicity combinations with loops of complex scalars are new.

Authors: Ellis, R; Giele, W; Zanderighi, G

• Publication status: Published
• Publication date: 2006-05-01
• DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/05/027
• EISSN: 1029-8479
• ISSN: 1029-8479
• Keywords: NLO computations; QCD; hadronic colliders