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It is a remarkable fact that MHV amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at arbitrary loop order can be written as the product of the tree amplitude with the same helicity configuration and a universal, helicity-blind…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Gabriele Travaglini

We use the hexagon function bootstrap to compute the ratio function which characterizes the next-to-maximally-helicity-violating (NMHV) six-point amplitude in planar $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at four loops. A powerful…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-29 Lance J. Dixon , Matt von Hippel , Andrew J. McLeod

Loop-level scattering amplitudes for massless particles have singularities in regions where tree amplitudes are perfectly smooth. For example, a $2\to4$ gluon scattering process has a singularity in which each incoming gluon splits into a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Lance J. Dixon , Ilya Esterlis

By using the gauge/gravity duality and the Maldacena prescription we compute the expectation values of the Wilson loops in noncommutative Yang-Mills (NCYM) theory in (3+1) dimensions. We consider both the time-like and the light-like Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-03 Somdeb Chakraborty , Najmul Haque , Shibaji Roy

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

We study the maximally-helicity-violating (MHV) six-gluon scattering amplitude in planar $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at finite coupling when all three cross ratios are small. It exhibits a double logarithmic scaling in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-29 Benjamin Basso , Lance J. Dixon , Georgios Papathanasiou

A recent, integrability-based conjecture in the framework of the Wilson loop OPE for N=4 SYM theory, predicts the leading OPE contribution for the hexagon MHV remainder function and NMHV ratio function to all loops, in integral form. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-18 Georgios Papathanasiou

We study Wilson loops in the 4-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric quiver/M theory duality recently constructed by Gaiotto and Maldacena, that is conjectured to be dual to M2 branes on AdS_5\times S^4 fibered over \Sigma_2. We use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-26 Yang Zhou

We study the six-point NMHV ratio function in planar ${\cal N}=4$ SYM theory in the context of positive geometry. The Amplituhedron construction of the integrand for the amplitudes provides a kinematical region in which the integrand was…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-06 Lance J. Dixon , Matt von Hippel , Andrew J. McLeod , Jaroslav Trnka

The simplicity of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory makes it an ideal theoretical laboratory for developing computational tools, which eventually find their way to QCD applications. In this contribution, we continue the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Georgios Papathanasiou

We revisit the computation of the two-loop light-like tetragonal Wilson loop for three dimensional pure Chern-Simons and N=6 Chern-Simons-matter theory, within dimensional regularization with dimensional reduction scheme. Our examination…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Marco S. Bianchi , Gaston Giribet , Matias Leoni , Silvia Penati

We continue the study of the duality between super-correlators and scattering super-amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM. We provide a number of further examples supporting the conjectured duality relation between these two seemingly different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Emery Sokatchev

We investigate Schwinger-Dyson equations for correlators of Wilson line operators in non-commutative gauge theories. We point out that, unlike what happens for closed Wilson loops, the joining term survives in the planar equations. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Avinash Dhar , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

We present an explicit analytic calculation of the differential of the planar n-particle, two-loop MHV scattering amplitude in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. The result is expressed only in terms of the polylogarithm functions Li_k(-x), for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 John Golden , Marcus Spradlin

We present a three-loop O(g^6) calculation of the difference between the expectation values of Wilson loops evaluated in N=4 and superconformal N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU(N) using dimensional reduction. We find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-04 Roman Andree , Donovan Young

We present results for Wilson loops in strongly coupled gauge theories. The loops may be taken around an arbitrarily shaped contour and in any field theory with a dual IIB geometry of the form M x S^5. No assumptions about supersymmetry are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sean A. Hartnoll

We derive a compact expression for the three-point MHV form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills at two loops. The main tools of our calculation are generalised unitarity applied at the form factor level, and the compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini , Gang Yang

The S-matrix for planar N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory can be computed as the correlation function for a holomorphic polygonal Wilson loop in twistor space. In an axial gauge, this leads to the construction of the all-loop integrand via MHV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Arthur E. Lipstein , Lionel Mason

We compute the even part of the two-loop seven-point planar MHV amplitude in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We find that the even part is expressed in terms of conformal integrals with simple rational coefficients. We also compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-30 C. Vergu

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