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Unitarity cut method has been proved to be very useful in the computation of one-loop integrals. In this paper, we generalize the method to the situation where the powers of propagators in the denominator are larger than one in general. We show how to use the trick of differentiation over masses to translate the problem to the integrals where all powers are just one. Then by using the unitarity cut method, we can find the wanted reduction coefficients of all basis except the tadpole. Using this method, we calculate the reduction of scalar bubble, scalar triangle, scalar box and scalar pentagon with general power of propagators.
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Feng, B., Wang, H. Reduction of one-loop integrals with higher poles by unitarity cut method. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 204 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2021)204
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