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We compute analytically the two-loop contribution to the correlation function of the Lagrangian with a four-sided light-like (or null) Wilson loop in N=4 super Yang-Mills. As a non-trivial test of our result, we reproduce the three-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-17 Luis F. Alday , Johannes M. Henn , Jakub Sikorowski

We study correlators of null, $n$-sided polygonal Wilson loops with a Lagrangian insertion in the planar limit of the ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This finite observable is closely related to loop integrands of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 Taro V. Brown , Johannes M. Henn , Elia Mazzucchelli , Jaroslav Trnka

The leading singularities of one-loop scattering amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory are known to factorise into products of tree-level amplitudes, and this can be seen from a number of different perspectives e.g.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 James Drummond , Matthew Rochford , Rowan Wright

In this paper we review recent results on symmetries in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. Symmetries are of invaluable help in studying and constraining the scattering amplitudes, and there has been a lot of progress in recent years concerning…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 L. Ferro

We compute the one-loop expectation value of light-like polygonal Wilson loops in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory in full superspace. When projecting to chiral superspace we recover the known results for tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-18 Niklas Beisert , Song He , Burkhard U. W. Schwab , Cristian Vergu

At loop level in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills, the dual superconformal symmetry of tree amplitudes is lost. This is true even if one uses a supersymmetry preserving regulator, and even for finite quantities that remain dual conformally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-06 Mathew Bullimore , David Skinner

We provide two derivations of the one-loop dual conformal anomaly of generic n-point superamplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Our proofs are based on simple applications of unitarity, and the known analytic properties…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-09 Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Gabriele Travaglini

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

Recent studies of scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM theory revealed the existence of a hidden dual superconformal symmetry. Together with the conventional superconformal symmetry it gives rise to powerful restrictions on the planar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We derive an expression for parton scattering amplitudes of planar gauge theory in terms of sums of Wilson loops. We study in detail the example of Yang-Mills theory with an adjoint Higgs field. The expression exhibits the T-duality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-10 John McGreevy , Amit Sever

We propose new formulae for the two-loop n-point D-dimensional integrands of scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory and gravity. The loop integrands are written as a double-forward limit of tree-level trivalent diagrams, and are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Yvonne Geyer , Ricardo Monteiro , Ricardo Stark-Muchão

Correlation functions of Wilson lines are relevant for describing the infrared structure of scattering amplitudes. We develop a new method for evaluating a wide class of such Wilson line integrals, and apply it to the calculation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Johannes M. Henn , Tobias Huber

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

This article reviews the recent progress in twistor approaches to Wilson loops, amplitudes and their duality for N=4 super Yang-Mills. Wilson loops and amplitudes are derived from first principles using the twistor action for maximally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Tim Adamo , Mathew Bullimore , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

The planar scattering amplitudes of $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang--Mills theory display symmetries and structures which underlie their relatively simple analytic properties such as having only logarithmic singularities and no poles at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Zvi Bern , Michael Enciso , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mao Zeng

Classically supersymmetric Wilson loop on a null polygonal contour possesses all symmetries required to match it onto non-MHV amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. However, to define it quantum mechanically, one is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 A. V. Belitsky

We present further evidence for a dual conformal symmetry in the four-gluon planar scattering amplitude in N=4 SYM. We show that all the momentum integrals appearing in the perturbative on-shell calculations up to five loops are dual to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Drummond , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

It is well-known that on-shell maximally helicity-violating gluon scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are dual to a bosonic Wilson loop on a null-polygonal contour. The light-like nature of the intervals is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-02 A. V. Belitsky , V. A. Smirnov

We work out the map between null polygonal hexagonal Wilson loops and spinning three point functions in large $N$ conformal gauge theories by mapping the variables describing the two different physical quantities and by working out the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Carlos Bercini , Vasco Gonçalves , Alexandre Homrich , Pedro Vieira

We compare the two-loop corrections to the finite part of the light-like hexagon Wilson loop with the recent numerical results for the finite part of the MHV six-gluon amplitude in N=4 SYM theory by Bern, Dixon, Kosower, Roiban, Spradlin,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev