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On one-loop amplitudes in gauge theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-12-30 v1

Abstract

We propose a new ``universal expansion" for one-loop amplitudes with arbitrary number of gluons in DD dimensions, which holds for general gauge theories with gluons/fermions/scalars in the loop, including pure and supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories. It expresses the nn-gluon amplitudes as a linear combination of universal scalar-loop amplitudes with nmn{-}m gluons and mm scalars, multiplied by gauge-invariant building blocks (defined for general gauge theories); the integrands of these scalar-loop amplitudes are given in terms of tree-level objects attached to the scalar loop, or by differential operators acting on the most important part which is proportional to DD (with m=0m=0). We present closed-formula for these one-loop integrands and prove them by showing that the single cuts are correctly reproduced by the gluing of an additional pair of gluons (fermions/scalars) in the forward limit, plus nn gluons in a tree amplitude.

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@article{arxiv.2412.19629,
  title  = {On one-loop amplitudes in gauge theories},
  author = {Qu Cao and Jin Dong and Song He and Fan Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.19629},
  year   = {2024}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures

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