28 September 2026 to 2 October 2026
University of Oxford
Europe/London timezone

Local Infrared Factorisation: a Road to Numerical Scattering Amplitudes

1 Oct 2026, 16:00
20m
Seminar Room 7 (St Anne's College)

Seminar Room 7

St Anne's College

Standard slot Joint: New techniques & Amplitudes Joint: New techniques & Amplitudes

Speaker

Dr Giulio Gambuti (ETH Zurich)

Description

A detailed picture of the infrared factorisation properties of scattering-amplitude integrands can be exploited to derive finite-remainder representations which are amenable to direct numerical integration. This provides an alternative to the usual analytic approaches. In this talk, I will present a proof-of-concept result: integrand representations for generic two-loop QED amplitudes which exhibit local factorisation in all soft and collinear limits. I will also discuss a corresponding local IR subtraction formula, which enables their direct numerical integration, and elaborate on obstacles and ideas for generalisations to QCD.

Author

Dr Giulio Gambuti (ETH Zurich)

Presentation materials