MadGraph5_aMC@NLO

IR singularities with squared amplitudes produced by MadLoop

Asked by Xiang Lv

Hello,

I’m trying to use MadLoop to generate a standalone library for some processes with EW loop corrections, and have a few questions:
1. I’m confused by the IR poles in the results. For instance, for the simple QED process e- e+ -> mu- mu+, I did

define exc = g0 g+ g- h gha ghz ghwp ghwm z u c d e- b s mu- ta+ ta- w+
generate e- e+ > mu- mu+ QCD=0 [virt=QED] /exc

which produced a loop graph with a top quark loop on the photon propagator. When I did

launch -f

I got the result

|| Total(*) Born contribution (GeV^0):

| Born = 1.1012911820047121e-02

|| Total(*) virtual contribution normalized with born*alpha_S/(2*pi):

| Finite = -2.1842211753457780e-01

| Single pole = -1.1685343497245081e-01

| Double pole = 0.0000000000000000e+00

As far as I know, this loop graph should not have an IR singularity. Do you know the reason for the non-zero single pole?

2. Can I use the subtraction method in MadFKS to compute photon radiative corrections? It seems that only QCD NLO radiative corrections are available.

3. When I run MadLoop in standalone mode, how can I set a dynamical renormalization scale? The process I’m considering is again EW loop graphs. I don’t find the setscal.f file in my output.

Thanks,
Xiang Lv

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Olivier Mattelaer (olivier-mattelaer) said : 		#1

Hi,

I will let Hua-Sheng to answer the first question.

Concerning #2: NLO correction in EW is possible only at fixed order within the version 3 of the code which is still beta.
Note that your process definition e- e+ > mu- mu+ will likely not be compatible with that framework (see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.10017.pdf)

Concerning #3:
In that mode, they are no running implemented, you have to decide yourself the scale that you use for the various running/...

Cheers,

Olivier

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Best Hua-Sheng Shao (erdissshaw) said : 		#2

Hi,

For the first question, MadLoop not only includes the one-loop diagrams but also the renormalisation (UV) counter terms. In your case, I think the pole is from the UV counter terms not from loop diagrams. In the current implementation of the NLO EW models, there is no diagram-by-digram correspondence between loops and UVs.

For the second question, see the reply of Olivier.

For the last one, please refer to https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/wiki/MadLoopStandaloneLibrary for the instructions of using MadLoop as a standalone library.

Cheers,

Hua-Sheng

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Xiang Lv (xiang123) said : 		#3

Thanks Hua-Sheng Shao, that solved my question.

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Xiang Lv (xiang123) said : 		#4

Tanks for your helping.