Loop-Level Double-Copy for Massive Quantum Particles

Understand

We find that scattering amplitudes in massive scalar QCD can manifest the duality between color and kinematics at loop-level.

• Specifically we construct the one-loop integrands for four-point scattering between two distinct massive scalars, and the five-point process encoding the first correction to massive scalar scattering with gluonic radiation.
• We find that factorization and the color-kinematics duality are sufficient principles to entirely bootstrap these calculations, allowing us to construct all contributions ultimately from the three-point tree-level amplitudes which are themselves entirely constrained by symmetry.
• Double-copy construction immediately provides the associated predictions for massive scalars scattering in the so called N=0 supergravity theory.