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One-loop amplitudes in Einstein-Yang-Mills from forward limits

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-03-01 v2

Abstract

We present a method to compute the integrands of one-loop Einstein-Yang-Mills amplitudes for any number of external gauge and gravity multiplets. Our construction relies on the double-copy structure of Einstein-Yang-Mills as (super-)Yang-Mills with the so-called YM+ϕ3\phi^3 theory -- pure Yang-Mills coupled to bi-adjoint scalars -- which we implement via one-loop Cachazo-He-Yuan formulae. The YM+ϕ3\phi^3 building blocks are obtained from forward limits of tree-level input in external gluons and scalars, and we give the composition rules for any number of traces and orders in the couplings gg and κ\kappa. On the one hand, we spell out supersymmetry- and dimension-agnostic relations that reduce loop integrands of Einstein-Yang-Mills to those of pure gauge theories. On the other hand, we present four-point results for maximal and half-maximal supersymmetry where all supersymmetry cancellations are exposed. In the half-maximal case, we determine six-dimensional anomalies due to chiral hypermultiplets in the loop.

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@article{arxiv.2201.12072,
  title  = {One-loop amplitudes in Einstein-Yang-Mills from forward limits},
  author = {Franziska Porkert and Oliver Schlotterer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.12072},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

51 + 8 pages, 18 figures, submission includes an ancillary data file; v2: typos fixed, matches version to be published in JHEP

R2 v1 2026-06-24T09:07:13.954Z