Two-loop helicity amplitudes for gluon-gluon scattering in QCD and supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

Abstract

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of two gluons into two gluons in QCD, which are relevant for next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to jet production at hadron colliders. We give the results in the 't Hooft-Veltman and four-dimensional helicity variants of dimensional regularization. Summing our expressions over helicities and colors, and converting to conventional dimensional regularization, gives results in complete agreement with those of Glover, Oleari and Tejeda-Yeomans. We also present the amplitudes for 2 → 2 scattering in pure N = 1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. © SISSA/ISAS 2002.