Local Unitarity and momentum-space numerical integration for perturbative QFT

Valentin Hirschi (U Bern)

Aug 18. 2026, 11:30 — 12:10

It is well-known that perturbative expansions of QFT observable suffer from infrared (IR) divergences both in the phase-space of real-emission contributions and in the loop amplitudes of virtual contributions.

Traditionally, the two are handled separately through a combination of local subtraction counterterm and dimensional regulation.

Local Unitarity is an alternative formulation using the Loop-Tree Duality (LTD) theorem and where the Kinoshita–Lee–Nauenberg (KLN) cancellation pattern is leveraged to achieve a direct cancellation of real-emission and loop IR divergences, independently for each forward scattering graph.

I will discuss our recent efforts in implementing Local Unitarity in gammaLoop, together with threshold regularisation techniques and local UV subtraction counterterms, aiming to obtain fixed-order predictions of differential corss-sections at a perturbative order only limited by the available computational resources (no obstacle from a theoretical standpoint).

Further Information
Venue:
ESI Schrödinger Lecture Hall
Associated Event:
New Paradigms for Harnessing Quantum Field Theory at Colliders (Thematic Programme)
Organizer(s):
Alessandro Broggio (U of Vienna)
André H. Hoang (U of Vienna)
Bianka Meçaj (LANL, Los Alamos)
Simon Plätzer (U of Graz)
Massimiliano Procura (U of Vienna)
Rudi Rahn (U of Vienna)
Malin Sjödahl (Lund U)
Iain W. Stewart (MIT, Cambridge)