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Ninja: automated integrand reduction via Laurent expansion for one-loop amplitudes. (English) Zbl 1360.81021

Summary: We present the public C++ library Ninja, which implements the Integrand Reduction via Laurent Expansion method for the computation of one-loop integrals. The algorithm is suited for applications to complex one-loop processes.

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81-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to quantum theory
81-08 Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory
81T13 Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory
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