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Here we construct N=4 SuperYang-Mills 6 point NMHV loop amplitude (amplitudes with three minus helicities) as a full superspace form, using the $SU(4)_{R}$ anti-commuting spinor variables. Amplitudes with different external particle and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Yu-tin Huang

The calculation of scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory at loop level is important for the analysis of background processes at particle colliders as well as our understanding of perturbation theory at the quantum level. We present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Rutger H. Boels , Reinke Sven Isermann

We evaluate one-loop amplitudes of N = 4 supergravity in D dimensions using the double-copy procedure that expresses gravity integrands in terms of corresponding ones in Yang--Mills theory.We organize the calculation in terms of a set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-21 Zvi Bern , Alex Edison , David Kosower , Julio Parra-Martinez

Using the method of maximal cuts, we construct the complete D-dimensional integrand of the five-loop four-point amplitude of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including nonplanar contributions. In the critical dimension where this amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , H. Johansson , 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 provide a simple analytic formula for the two-loop six-point ratio function of planar N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory. This result extends the analytic knowledge of multi-loop six-point amplitudes beyond those with maximal helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Johannes M. Henn

We compute the six-particle maximally-helicity-violating (MHV) and next-to-MHV (NMHV) amplitudes in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory through seven loops and six loops, respectively, as an application of the extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Simon Caron-Huot , Lance J. Dixon , Falko Dulat , Matt von Hippel , Andrew J. McLeod , Georgios Papathanasiou

We compute the even part of the planar two-loop MHV amplitude in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, for an arbitrary number of external particles. The answer is expressed as a sum of conformal integrals.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 C. Vergu

This paper studies various properties of amplitudes in 3d super Yang Mills theory. First we explain how to obtain the amplitudes of 3d super Yang Mills theories from 4d super Yang Mills theories and obtain their helicity structure. Next, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Arthur E. Lipstein , Lionel Mason

We develop a manifestly supersymmetric version of the generalized unitarity cut method for calculating scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory. We illustrate the power of this method by computing the one-loop n-point NMHV super-amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We show how to calculate the one-loop scattering amplitude with all gluons of negative helicity in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory using MHV diagrams. We argue that the amplitude with all positive helicity gluons arises from a Jacobian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

Planar L-loop maximally helicity violating amplitudes in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are believed to possess the remarkable property of satisfying iteration relations in L. We propose a simple new method for studying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Freddy Cachazo , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

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

Yangian symmetry of amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory is formulated in terms of eigenvalue relations for monodromy matrix operators. The Quantum Inverse Scattering Method provides the appropriate tools to treat the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Chicherin , S. Derkachov , R. Kirschner

We investigate the one-loop spectral problem of $\gamma$-twisted, planar $\mathcal{N}$=4 Super Yang-Mills theory in the double-scaling limit of infinite, imaginary twist angle and vanishing Yang-Mills coupling constant. This non-unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Asger C. Ipsen , Matthias Staudacher , Leonard Zippelius

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

Over the past two years, the use of on-shell techniques has deepened our understanding of the S-matrix of gauge theories and led to the calculation of many new scattering amplitudes. In these notes we review a particular on-shell method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini

In this paper we study the one- and two-loop corrections to the four-point amplitude of N=6 Chern-Simons matter theory. Using generalized unitarity methods we express the one- and two-loop amplitudes in terms of dual-conformal integrals.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Wei-Ming Chen , Yu-tin Huang

We consider scattering amplitudes in planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in special kinematics where all external four-dimensional momenta are restricted to a (1+1)-dimensional subspace. The amplitudes are known to satisfy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Timothy Goddard , Paul Heslop , Valentin V. Khoze

We study cluster adjacency conjectures for amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We show that the n-point one-loop NMHV ratio function satisfies Steinmann cluster adjacency. We also show that the one-loop BDS-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Jorge Mago , Anders Schreiber , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich