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We explore the space of non-gravitational, maximally supersymmetric, planar 4d effective field theories (EFTs) that have $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) at leading order. We show that in the weakly-coupled regime, highly non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Henriette Elvang , Aidan Herderschee , Roger Morales

In this paper we study the scattering amplitudes at strong coupling for the case where the number of gluons is a multiple of four. This is an important missing piece in arXiv:1002.2459. The tricky point for n=4K is that there is some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 Gang Yang

I describe some recent developments in the understanding of gluon scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory in the large-N_c limit. These amplitudes can be computed to high orders in the weak coupling expansion, and also now at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-07 Lance J. Dixon

We initiate a systematic study of amplitudes with massive external particles on the Coulomb-branch of N=4 super Yang Mills theory: 1) We propose that (multi-)soft-scalar limits of massless amplitudes at the origin of moduli space can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Nathaniel Craig , Henriette Elvang , Michael Kiermaier , Tracy Slatyer

The strong version of Maldacena's AdS/CFT conjecture implies that the large N expansion of free N=4 super-YM theory describes an interacting string theory in the extreme limit of high spacetime curvature relative to the string length.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Parviz Haggi-Mani , Bo Sundborg

A non-trivial consequence of the super-correlator/super-amplitude duality is that the integrand of the four-point correlation function of stress-tensor multiplets in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills contains a certain combination of n-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Paul Heslop , Vuong-Viet Tran

Here we construct N=4 SuperYang-Mills 6 point NMHV loop amplitude (amplitudes with three minus helicities) as a full superspace form, using the $SU(4)_{R}$ anti-commuting spinor variables. Amplitudes with different external particle and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Yu-tin Huang

Four-particle tree-level scattering amplitudes in string theory are magically consistent with unitarity, reflected in the non-trivial fact that beneath the critical dimension, the residues of the amplitudes on massive poles can be expanded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Lorenz Eberhardt , Yu-tin Huang , Sebastian Mizera

The large Nc expansion of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU(Nc) has recently been shown to break down at singularities on the moduli space. We conjecture that by taking Nc to infinity and approaching the singularities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Frank Ferrari

In this letter we consider the collinear limit of gluon scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM theory at strong coupling. We argue that in this limit scattering amplitudes map into correlators of twist fields in the two dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-07 Benjamin Basso , Amit Sever , Pedro Vieira

Calculations of $1\to N$ amplitudes in scalar field theories at very high multiplicities exhibit an extremely rapid growth with the number $N$ of final state particles. This either indicates an end of perturbative behaviour, or possibly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-21 Joerg Jaeckel , Sebastian Schenk

It is pointed out the ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric gauge theory used in the anti-de Sitter holographic correspondence is required to be modified. The SL(2,Z) completion of the theory is required to map the correlators to string theory…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers

The collinear factorization properties of two-loop scattering amplitudes in dimensionally-regulated N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory suggest that, in the planar ('t Hooft) limit, higher-loop contributions can be expressed entirely in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 C. Anastasiou , Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

In this work we employ the MHV technique to show that scattering amplitudes with any number of consecutive soft particles behave universally in the multi-soft limit in which all particles go soft simultaneously. After identifying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 George Georgiou

We describe how to compute planar gluon scattering amplitudes at strong coupling in N=4 super Yang Mills by using the gauge/string duality. The computation boils down to finding a certain classical string configuration whose boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Luis F. Alday , Juan Maldacena

We specialize the $N$ string scattering amplitudes for the generalized protostring to $N=4$. This allows for a much more detailed and explicit study of their basic physical and mathematical properties, such as singularity structure and high…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-14 Charles B. Thorn

We develop a manifestly supersymmetric version of the generalized unitarity cut method for calculating scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory. We illustrate the power of this method by computing the one-loop n-point NMHV super-amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We investigate the tree-level S-matrix in gauge theories and open superstring theory with several soft particles. We show that scattering amplitudes with two or three soft gluons of non-identical helicities behave universally in the limit,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-31 Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen , Michael Zlotnikov

We present a systematic framework for the maximally-transcendental part of planar QCD scattering amplitudes and perform the first bootstrap computation of six-gluon MHV amplitudes in massless QCD at the symbol level. By analyzing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Sérgio Carrôlo , Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Qinglin Yang , Yang Zhang

Using the pure spinor formalism, a particular superstring scattering amplitude involving one closed string and $N$ open string vertex operators in $\mathrm{AdS}{}_5 \times \mathrm{S}^5$ is studied. It is shown that the tree-level amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-08 Thales Azevedo , Nathan Berkovits