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We construct the complete (planar and non-planar) integrand for the six-loop four-point amplitude in maximal $D\le10$ super-Yang-Mills. This construction employs new advances that combat the proliferation of diagram contributions and state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-13 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Alex Edison , Henrik Johansson

I discuss the recent advances in the computation of two-loop scattering amplitudes for five-particle processes. The latter are fundamental ingredients to obtain predictions at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD for many…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-09 Simone Zoia

We explore the space of consistent three-particle couplings in $\mathbb Z_2$-symmetric two-dimensional QFTs using two first-principles approaches. Our first approach relies solely on unitarity, analyticity and crossing symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Alexandre Homrich , Joao Penedones , Jonathan Toledo , Balt C. van Rees , Pedro Vieira

This paper studies the Yang-Lee singularity of the 2-dimensional Ising model on the cylinder via transfer matrix and finite-size scaling techniques. These techniques enable a measurement of the 2-point and 3-point correlations and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tomasz Wydro , John F. McCabe

The scattering amplitudes of planar N = 4 super-Yang-Mills exhibit a number of remarkable analytic structures, including dual conformal symmetry and logarithmic singularities of integrands. The amplituhedron is a geometric construction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Sean Litsey , James Stankowicz , Jaroslav Trnka

We present the first numerical computation of two-loop amplitudes based on the unitarity method. As a proof of principle, we compute the four-gluon process. We discuss the new method, analyze its numerical properties and apply it to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-11 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Jaquier , B. Page , M. Zeng

We compute the integrand of the full-colour, two-loop, five-gluon scattering amplitude in pure Yang-Mills theory with all helicities positive, using generalized unitarity cuts. Tree-level BCJ relations, satisfied by amplitudes appearing in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-16 Simon Badger , Gustav Mogull , Alexander Ochirov , Donal O'Connell

We present a direct computation of the full color two-loop five-point all-plus Yang-Mills amplitude using four dimensional unitarity and recursion. We present the $SU(N_c)$ amplitudes in compact analytic forms. Our results match the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-22 David C. Dunbar , John H. Godwin , Warren B. Perkins , Joseph M. W. Strong

The simplest integrands in the CHY formulation of scattering amplitudes are constructed using the so-called Parke-Taylor functions. Parke-Taylor functions also turn out to belong to a large class of rational functions known as MHV leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-13 Freddy Cachazo

We review recent progress on computing scattering amplitudes of planar N=4 super Yang-Mills at strong coupling by using the AdS/CFT duality. We do explicit computations by using both, dimensional regularization and a cut-off in the radial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Luis F. Alday

In this paper we present the first analytic computation of the six-point two-loop amplitude of ABJM theory. We show that the two-loop amplitude consist of corrections proportional to two distinct local Yangian invariants which can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-17 Yu-tin Huang , S. Caron-Huot

Scattering amplitudes in superconformal field theories do not enjoy this symmetry, because the definition of asymptotic states involve a notion of infinity. Concentrating on planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills, we consider a generalization of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Simon Caron-Huot

We reformulate the heptagon cluster bootstrap to take advantage of the Steinmann relations, which require certain double discontinuities of any amplitude to vanish. These constraints vastly reduce the number of functions needed to bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Lance J. Dixon , James Drummond , Thomas Harrington , Andrew J. McLeod , Georgios Papathanasiou , Marcus Spradlin

We present analytic forms of three-loop four-gluon planar amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theory in this letter. Gauge invariant bases and a set of proper master integrals are chosen such that the amplitudes are explicitly invariant under…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-15 Qingjun Jin , Hui Luo

Multi-loop scattering amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory possess cluster algebra structure. In order to develop a computational framework which exploits this connection, we show how to construct bases of Goncharov polylogarithm functions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Daniel E. Parker , Adam Scherlis , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

It has been recently conjectured that scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills are given by the volume of the (dual) amplituhedron. In this paper we show some interesting connections between the tree-level amplituhedron and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Andrea Orta , Matteo Parisi

Wilson loops with lightlike polygonal contours have been conjectured to be equivalent to MHV scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. We compute such Wilson loops for special polygonal contours at two loops in perturbation theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-29 Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Valentin V. Khoze , Gabriele Travaglini

We review recent progress on the calculation of scattering amplitudes in the high-energy limit. We start by illustrating the shockwave formalism, which allows one to calculate amplitudes as iterated solutions of rapidity evolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-10 Leonardo Vernazza , Giulio Falcioni , Einan Gardi , Niamh Maher , Calum Milloy

We study MHV amplitude for the 2 -> 5 scattering in the multi-Regge kinematics. The Mandelstam cut correction to the BDS amplitude is calculated in the leading logarithmic approximation (LLA) and the corresponding remainder function is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 J. Bartels , A. Kormilitzin , L. N. Lipatov , A. Prygarin

In four-dimensional theories with massless particles, the one-loop amplitudes can be expressed in terms of a basis of scalar integrals and rational terms. Since the scalar bubble integrals are the only UV divergent integrals, the sum of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Yu-tin Huang , David A. McGady , Cheng Peng