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The beta-deformation is one of the two superconformal deformations of the N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. At the planar level it shares all of its properties except for supersymmetry, which is broken to the minimal amount. The tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Q. Jin , R. Roiban

We argue that generic one-loop scattering amplitudes in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories can be computed equivalently with MHV diagrams or with Feynman diagrams. We first present a general proof of the covariance of one-loop non-MHV…

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

We use the recently proposed generalised on-shell representation for scattering amplitudes and a consistency test to explore the space of tree-level consistent couplings in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. The extension of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Paolo Benincasa , Eduardo Conde

Using the double-copy construction of Yang-Mills-Einstein theories formulated in our earlier work, we obtain compact presentations for single-trace Yang-Mills-Einstein tree amplitudes with up to five external gravitons and an arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-25 Marco Chiodaroli , Murat Gunaydin , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban

Exploiting singularities in Feynman integrals to get information about scattering amplitudes has been particularly useful at one-loop in theories where no triangles or bubbles appear. At higher loops the integrals possess subtle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-04 Freddy Cachazo , David Skinner

We present a supersymmetric recursion relation for tree-level scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. Using this recursion relation, we prove that the tree-level S-matrix of the maximally supersymmetric theory is covariant under dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-30 Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Gabriele Travaglini

We derive compact analytical formulae for all tree-level color-ordered gauge theory amplitudes involving any number of external gluons and up to three massless quark-anti-quark pairs. A general formula is presented based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-24 Lance J. Dixon , Johannes M. Henn , Jan Plefka , Theodor Schuster

We prove the conjecture made by Bern, Dixon, Dunbar, and Kosower that describes a simple dimension shifting relationship between the one-loop structure of N = 4 MHV amplitudes and all-plus helicity amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theory. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-29 Ruth Britto , Guy R. Jehu , Andrea Orta

We present a generalized unitarity method for theories of point-particle worldlines coupled to gravity, analogous to that of scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory. This method allows the computation of perturbative observables from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Vincent F. He , Julio Parra-Martinez

Though the one-loop amplitudes of the Higgs boson to massless gauge bosons are finite because there is no direct interaction at tree-level in the Standard Model, a well-defined regularization scheme is still required for their correct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-22 Felix Driencourt-Mangin , German Rodrigo , German F. R. Sborlini

A central problem in quantum field theory is the computation of scattering amplitudes. However, traditional methods are impractical to calculate high order phenomenologically relevant observables. Building on a few decades of astonishing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Andrea Orta , Matteo Parisi

We derive a new class of one-loop non-renormalization theorems that strongly constrain the running of higher dimension operators in a general four-dimensional quantum field theory. Our logic follows from unitarity: cuts of one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-19 Clifford Cheung , Chia-Hsien Shen

In this article, we use Ward identity to calculate tree and one loop level off shell amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theory with a pair of external lines complexified. We explicitly prove Ward identity at tree and one loop level using Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Yun Zhang , Gang Chen

We present an alternative reduction to master integrals for one-loop amplitudes using a unitarity cut method in arbitrary dimensions. We carry out the reduction in two steps. The first step is a pure four-dimensional cut-integration of tree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Charalampos Anastasiou , Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Zoltan Kunszt , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We present a new formula for all single trace tree amplitudes in four dimensional super Yang-Mills coupled to Einstein supergravity. Like the Cachazo-He-Yuan formula, our expression is supported on solutions of the scattering equations, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Tim Adamo , Eduardo Casali , Kai A. Roehrig , David Skinner

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

All four-point mixed gluon-graviton amplitudes in pure Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with at most one state of negative helicity are computed at one-loop order and maximal powers of the gauge coupling using D-dimensional generalized unitarity.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Dhritiman Nandan , Jan Plefka , Gabriele Travaglini

At tree-level, scattering amplitudes involving only gluons or gravitons are unaffected by supersymmetry, allowing them to be efficiently encoded by and extracted from those of maximally supersymmetric (N=4,8) theories. This fails beyond…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily

We present on the use of on-shell recursion relations. These can be used not only for calculating tree amplitudes, including those with masses, but also to compute analytically the missing rational terms of one-loop QCD amplitudes. Combined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Darren Forde

Tree and loop level scattering amplitudes which involve physical massless bosons are derived directly from physical constraints such as locality, symmetry and unitarity, bypassing path integral constructions. Amplitudes can be projected…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Rutger H. Boels , Hui Luo