Ninja: Automated Integrand Reduction via Laurent Expansion for One-Loop Amplitudes

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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One-loop computations
Integrand reduction
Laurent expansion
scattering amplitude
higher-order: 1
programming
master integral
numerical methods

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