On one-loop amplitudes in gauge theories
Abstract
We propose a new ``universal expansion" for one-loop amplitudes with arbitrary number of gluons in dimensions, which holds for general gauge theories with gluons/fermions/scalars in the loop, including pure and supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories. It expresses the -gluon amplitudes as a linear combination of universal scalar-loop amplitudes with gluons and 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 (with ). 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 gluons in a tree amplitude.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures