One-loop Multi-leg Calculation in Gauge Theories : Golem95 Library

Higher order corrections in gauge theories play a crucial role in studying physics within the standard model and beyond at TeV colliders, like LHC, TeVatron and ILC. Therefore, it is of extreme importance to provide tools for next-to-leading order amplitude computation which are fast, stable, efficient and highly automatized. This thesis aims at developing the library of integrals Golem95. This library is a program written in Fortran95, it contains all the necessary ingredients to calculate any one-loop scalar or tensorial integral with up to six external legs. Golem95 uses the traditional reduction method (Golem reduction) to reduce the form factors into redundant basic integrals, which can be scalar (without Feynman parameters in the numerator) or tensorial (with Feynman parameter in the numerator); this formalism allows us to avoid the problems of numerical instabilities generated by the spurious singularities induced by the vanishing of the Gram determinants. In addition, this library can be interfaced with automatic programs of NLO calculation based on the unitarity inspired reduction methods as GoSam for example. Earlierversions of Golem95 were designed for the calculation of amplitudes without internal masses. The purpose of this thesis is to extend this library for more general configurations (complex masses are supported); and to provide numerically stable calculation in the problematic regions (det(G) → 0), by providing a stable one-dimensional integral representation for each Golem95 basic integral.