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We prove the MHV vertex expansion for all tree amplitudes of N=4 SYM theory. The proof uses a shift acting on all external momenta, and we show that every N^kMHV tree amplitude falls off as 1/z^k, or faster, for large z under this shift.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 Henriette Elvang , Daniel Z. Freedman , Michael Kiermaier

In this letter, we construct the recursion relations for one-loop planar integrands in the SU(N) non-linear sigma model. This generalizes the soft recursions for tree-level amplitudes in a variety of quantum field theories with special soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-13 Christoph Bartsch , Karol Kampf , Jaroslav Trnka

We perform the twistor (half-Fourier) transform of all tree n-particle superamplitudes in N=4 SYM and show that it has a transparent geometric interpretation. We find that the N^kMHV amplitude is supported on a set of (2k+1) intersecting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-26 G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

Recently, loop integrands for certain Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes and correlation functions have been shown to be systematically expressible in dlog form, raising the possibility that these loop integrals can be performed directly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Arthur E. Lipstein , Lionel Mason

We initiate an exploration of on-shell functions in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM beyond the planar limit by providing compact, combinatorial expressions for all leading singularities of MHV amplitudes and showing that they can always be expressed as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-31 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Alexander Postnikov , Jaroslav Trnka

In this paper we discuss different recursion relations (BCFW and all-line shift) for the form factors of the operators from the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM stress-tensor current supermultiplet $T^{AB}$ in momentum twistor space. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-28 L. V. Bork

The amplituhedron provides a beautiful description of perturbative superamplitude integrands in N=4 SYM in terms of purely geometric objects, generalisations of polytopes. On the other hand the Wilson loop in supertwistor space also gives…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Paul Heslop , Alastair Stewart

We use massive CSW rules to derive explicit compact expressions for integrands of rational terms in QCD with any number of external legs. Specifically, we present all-n integrands for the one-loop all-plus and one-minus gluon amplitudes in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Henriette Elvang , Daniel Z. Freedman , Michael Kiermaier

The twistor diagram formalism for scattering amplitudes is introduced, emphasising its finiteness and conformal symmetry. It is shown how MHV amplitudes are simply represented by twistor diagrams. Then the Britto-Cachazo-Feng recursion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew Hodges

We present a novel type of differential equations for on-shell loop integrals. The equations are second-order and importantly, they reduce the loop level by one, so that they can be solved iteratively in the loop order. We present several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-22 James M. Drummond , Johannes M. Henn , Jaroslav Trnka

We show that MHV diagrams are the Feynman diagrams of certain twistor actions for gauge theories in an axial gauge. The gauge symmetry of the twistor action is larger than that on space-time and this allows us to fix a gauge that makes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rutger Boels , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

In this paper, we continue our study of form factors and correlation functions of gauge-invariant local composite operators in the twistor-space formulation of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. Using the vertices for these operators obtained in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-23 Laura Koster , Vladimir Mitev , Matthias Staudacher , Matthias Wilhelm

We derive an on-shell diagram recursion for tree-level scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=7$ supergravity. The diagrams are evaluated in terms of Grassmannian integrals and momentum twistors, generalising previous results of Hodges in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Connor Armstrong , Joseph A. Farrow , Arthur E. Lipstein

In this letter, we generalize the recursion methods based on cut equations arXiv:2412.21027, originally developed for scalar theories, to gluons in pure Yang-Mills theory. In gauge theories, planar loop integrands are subtle to defined and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-21 Qu Cao , Fan Zhu

In this paper, we study a new application of the positive Grassmanian to Wilson loop diagrams (or MHV diagrams) for scattering amplitudes in N=4 Super Yang-Mill theory ($N=4$ SYM). There has been much interest in studying this theory via…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Susama Agarwala , Eloi Marin Amat

In this PhD thesis we extend the twistor formalism to encompass (partially) off-shell quantities. We describe all gauge-invariant local composite operators in twistor space and show that they immediately generate all tree-level form factors…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-21 Laura Koster

We give a self-contained derivation of the MHV amplitudes for gravity and use the associated twistor generating function to define a twistor action for the MHV diagram approach to gravity. Starting from a background field calculation on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Lionel Mason , David Skinner

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

Integrands for colour ordered scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM are dual to those of correlation functions of the energy-momentum multiplet of the theory. The construction can relate amplitudes with different numbers of legs. By graph…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-05 Raquel G. Ambrosio , Burkhard Eden , Timothy Goddard , Paul Heslop , Charles Taylor

We study a novel geometric expansion for scattering amplitudes in the planar sector of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, in the context of the Amplituhedron which reproduces the all-loop integrand as a canonical differential form on the positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-01 Taro V. Brown , Umut Oktem , Shruti Paranjape , Jaroslav Trnka