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Multi-Quark Colour Decompositions from Unitarity

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arxiv 1908.02695 v2 pith:XOYNDD6B submitted 2019-08-07 hep-ph hep-th

Multi-Quark Colour Decompositions from Unitarity

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keywords decompositionsamplitudescolourmulti-quarklooptree-levelunitarityaligned
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Any loop QCD amplitude at full colour is constructed from kinematic and gauge-group building blocks. In a unitarity-based on-shell framework, both objects can be reconstructed from their respective counterparts in tree-level amplitudes. This procedure is at its most powerful when aligned with flexible colour decompositions of tree-level QCD amplitudes. In this note we derive such decompositions for amplitudes with an arbitrary number of quarks and gluons from the same principle that is used to bootstrap kinematics - unitarity factorisation. In the process we formulate new multi-quark bases and provide closed-form expressions for the new decompositions. We then elaborate upon their application in colour decompositions of loop multi-quark amplitudes.

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