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We compute the six-dimensional hexagon integral with three non-adjacent external masses analytically. After a simple rescaling, it is given by a function of six dual conformally invariant cross-ratios. The result can be expressed as a sum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Vittorio Del Duca , Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Claude Duhr , Johannes M. Henn , Vladimir A. Smirnov

Scattering amplitudes in $D$ dimensions involve particular terms that originate from the interplay of UV poles with the $D-4$ dimensional parts of loop numerators. Such contributions can be controlled through a finite set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Jean-Nicolas Lang , Stefano Pozzorini , Hantian Zhang , Max F. Zoller

We explain how one-loop amplitudes with massive fermions can be computed using only on-shell information. We first use the spinor-helicity formalism in six dimensions to perform generalised unitarity cuts in $d$ dimensions. We then show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Francesco Buciuni , Donal O'Connell

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 compute two infinite series of tree-level amplitudes with a massive scalar pair and an arbitrary number of gluons. We provide results for amplitudes where all gluons have identical helicity, and amplitudes with one gluon of opposite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

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

A previously proposed all-loop-orders relation between the Regge limits of four-point amplitudes of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and N=8 supergravity is established at the three-loop level. We show that the Regge limit of known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-08 Stephen G. Naculich , Theodore W. Wecker

A study of the colour-ordered one-loop amplitudes in N=4 SYM reveals a surprising property: numerically, the amplitudes have an Approximately Universal form A^{1-loop}_n ~ A^{tree}_n \times U_n, where U_n is helicity independent. This form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-27 David C. Dunbar , James H. Ettle , Warren B. Perkins

We review techniques simplifying the analytic calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes with many external legs, for use in next-to-leading-order corrections to multi-jet processes. Particularly useful are the constraints imposed by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Z. Bern , G. Chalmers , L. Dixon , D. C. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

We derive the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for the processes $l q \to l qg$ ($l \bar q \to l \bar q g$) and $l g \to l q\bar q$, which are the partonic reactions yielding $(2+1)$-jet final states in deep inelastic lepton nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-25 T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover

We argue that the scattering amplitudes in the maximally supersymmetric N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory possess a new symmetry which extends the previously discovered dual conformal symmetry. To reveal this property we formulate the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-22 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We investigate generic properties of one-loop amplitudes in unordered gauge theories in four dimensions. For such theories the organisation of amplitudes in manifestly crossing symmetric expressions poses restrictions on their structure and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-03 Simon Badger , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Pierre Vanhove

Inspired by the calculational steps originally performed by Kawai, Lewellen and Tye, we decompose scattering amplitudes with single-valued coefficients obtained in the multi-Regge-limit of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory into products of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-29 Konstantin Baune , Johannes Broedel

The consequences of on-shell supersymmetry are studied for scattering amplitudes with massive particles in four dimensions. Using the massive version of the spinor helicity formalism the supersymmetry transformations relating products of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-22 Rutger H. Boels , Christian Schwinn

The rational parts of 6-gluon one-loop amplitudes with scalars circulating in the loop are computed by using the newly developed method for computing the rational parts directly from Feynman integrals. We present the analytic results for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhi-Guang Xiao , Gang Yang , Chuan-Jie Zhu

We have calculated the one-loop scattering amplitude of an electron by an external Coulomb potential in QED free of infrared divergences. This feature is achieved by applying the Faddeev-Kulish formalism, which implies a redefinition of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-15 J. A. Oller , Marcela Peláez

We explore scattering amplitudes on the Coulomb branch of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We introduce a particular pattern of scalar vacuum expectation values that allow us to define amplitudes with a different mass pattern…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-05 Wojciech Flieger , Johannes Henn , Anders Schreiber , Jaroslav Trnka

We derive a new Minkowski space action for the pure gluonic sector of QCD that implements new interaction vertices local in the light-cone time with at least four legs and fixed helicities - the lowest vertex is the four-point MHV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 Hiren Kakkad

We discuss how higher-point QCD amplitudes may be constructed from lower point ones by imposing the factorization constraints in the limits as external momenta become collinear. As a particular example, the all-$n$ gluon one-loop amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 G. Chalmers

All positive helicity four-point gluon-graviton amplitudes in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory coupled to a dilaton and axion field are computed at the leading one-loop order using colour-kinematics duality. In particular, all relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Josua Faller , Jan Plefka