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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

We present the fully integrated form of the two-loop four-gluon amplitude in $\mathcal{N} = 2$ supersymmetric quantum chromodynamics with gauge group SU$(N_c)$ and with $N_f$ massless supersymmetric quarks (hypermultiplets) in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-18 Claude Duhr , Henrik Johansson , Gregor Kälin , Gustav Mogull , Bram Verbeek

We show how generalised unitarity cuts in D = 4 - 2 epsilon dimensions can be used to calculate efficiently complete one-loop scattering amplitudes in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This approach naturally generates the rational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Simon McNamara , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

Noncommutative ${\cal N}=1$ and ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories with gauge group U(N) are studied here using the background field method and superspace background covariant D-algebra in perturbation theory. At one loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Daniela Zanon

We compute the symbol of the two-loop five-point scattering amplitude in $\mathcal{N}$ = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including its full color dependence. This requires constructing the symbol of all two-loop five-point nonplanar massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Samuel Abreu , Lance J. Dixon , Enrico Herrmann , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

We describe the construction of the complete four-loop four-particle amplitude of N=8 supergravity. The amplitude is ultraviolet finite, not only in four dimensions, but in five dimensions as well. The observed extra cancellations provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Z. Bern , J. J. Carrasco , L. J. Dixon , H. Johansson , R. Roiban

Using color-kinematics duality, we construct for the first time the full integrand of the five-loop Sudakov form factor in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including non-planar contributions. This result also provides a first manifestation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-04 Gang Yang

Supersymmetric integrands for the two-loop five-point amplitudes in ten-dimensional super Yang--Mills and type II supergravity are proposed. The kinematic numerators are manifestly local and satisfy the duality between color and kinematics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-05 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

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 investigate the asymptotically large loop-momentum behavior of multi-loop amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric quantum field theories in four dimensions. We check residue-theorem identities among color-dressed leading singularities in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Enrico Herrmann , Jaroslav Trnka

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 seven-gluon two-loop full-color Yang-Mills amplitude is presented in a compact analytic form where we use the methods of four-dimensional unitarity cuts to obtain the polylogarithmic pieces and augmented recursion to obtain the rational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Adam R. Dalgleish , David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins , Joseph M. W. Strong

We compute the symbol of the two-loop five-point amplitude in $\mathcal N=8$ supergravity. We write an ansatz for the amplitude whose rational prefactors are based on not only 4-dimensional leading singularities, but also $d$-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Samuel Abreu , Lance J. Dixon , Enrico Herrmann , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

We present the full two-loop four-graviton amplitudes in N=4,5,6 supergravity. These results were obtained using the double-copy structure of gravity, which follows from the recently conjectured color-kinematics duality in gauge theory. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 C. Boucher-Veronneau , L. J. Dixon

Maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories have several remarkable properties, among which are the cancellation of UV divergences, factorization of higher loop corrections and possible integrability. Much attention has been attracted to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 L. V. Bork , D. I. Kazakov , D. E. Vlasenko

We investigate the low-energy effective action in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU(n) spontaneously broken down to its maximal torus. Using harmonic superspace technique we prove an absence of any three- and four-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 I. L. Buchbinder , A. Yu. Petrov

We study the subleading-color (nonplanar) contributions to the four-gluon scattering amplitudes in N=4 supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. Using the formalisms of Catani and of Sterman and Tejeda-Yeomans, we develop explicit expressions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephen G. Naculich , Horatiu Nastase , Howard J. Schnitzer

Commutative four dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) is known to be renormalizable for ${\mathcal N} = 1, 2$, and finite for ${\mathcal N} = 4$. However, in the noncommutative version of the model the UV/IR mechanism gives rise to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. F. Ferrari , H. O. Girotti , M. Gomes , A. Yu. Petrov , A. A. Ribeiro , V. O. Rivelles , A. J. da Silva

We demonstrate that pure N=4 supergravity is ultraviolet divergent at four loops. The form of the divergence suggests that it is due to the rigid U(1) duality-symmetry anomaly of the theory. This is the first known example of an ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-16 Zvi Bern , Scott Davies , Tristan Dennen , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

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