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This thesis is focused on the development of new mathematical methods for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in gauge theories. In this work we combine, for the first time, the unitarity-based construction for integrands, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-21 Ulrich Schubert

We argue that existing methods for the perturbative computation of anomalous dimensions and the disentanglement of mixing in N = 4 gauge theory can be considerably simplified, systematized and extended by focusing on the theory's dilatation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-23 N. Beisert , C. Kristjansen , M. Staudacher

We find an unexpected iterative structure within the two-loop five-gluon amplitude in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Specifically, we show that a subset of diagrams contributing to the full amplitude, including a two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Freddy Cachazo , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

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

Recently a powerful duality between color and kinematics has been proposed for integrands of scattering amplitudes in quite general gauge theories. In this paper the duality proposal is extended to the more general class of gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Rutger H. Boels , Bernd A. Kniehl , Oleg V. Tarasov , Gang Yang

We use the recently developed generalized double-copy procedure to construct an integrand for the five-loop four-point amplitude of N=8 supergravity. This construction starts from a naive double copy of the previously computed corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 Zvi Bern , John Joseph M. Carrasco , Wei-Ming Chen , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban , Mao Zeng

After reduction techniques, two-loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory can be written in a basis of integrals containing scalar double-box integrals with rational coefficients, though the complete basis is unknown. Generically, at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Freddy Cachazo

We review generalized unitarity as a means for obtaining loop amplitudes from on-shell tree amplitudes. The method is generally applicable to both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric amplitudes, including non-planar contributions. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Zvi Bern , Yu-tin Huang

In this paper we review recent results on symmetries in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. Symmetries are of invaluable help in studying and constraining the scattering amplitudes, and there has been a lot of progress in recent years concerning…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 L. Ferro

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

We develop an iterative method for constructing four-dimensional generalized unitarity cuts in $\mathcal{N} = 2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory coupled to fundamental matter hypermultiplets ($\mathcal{N} = 2$ SQCD). For iterated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-08 Gregor Kälin , Gustav Mogull , Alexander Ochirov

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

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

Four-point one-loop nonsupersymmetric pure Yang-Mills amplitudes with the duality between color and kinematics manifest have been constructed in previous work. Here, we extend the discussion to fermions and scalars circulating in the loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-04 Josh Nohle

The scattering amplitudes of planar N = 4 super-Yang-Mills exhibit a number of remarkable analytic structures, including dual conformal symmetry and logarithmic singularities of integrands. The amplituhedron is a geometric construction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Sean Litsey , James Stankowicz , Jaroslav Trnka

We derive the four-dimensional integrand of the maximal-helicity-violating four-particle form factor for the chiral part of the stress-tensor supermultiplet in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at two loops. In our integrand…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-26 Tushar Gopalka , Enrico Herrmann

We construct all supergravity theories that can be obtained through factorized orbifold projections of N=8 supergravity, exposing their double-copy structure, and calculate their one-loop four-point scattering amplitudes. We observe a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Marco Chiodaroli , Murat Gunaydin , Radu 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

This article reviews recent progress in formulating double-copy constructions for scattering amplitudes in supergravity theories with N=2 supersymmetry in five and four spacetime dimensions. Particular attention is devoted to infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-15 Marco Chiodaroli

We provide evidence in favor of the conjectured duality between color and kinematics for the case of nonsupersymmetric pure Yang-Mills amplitudes by constructing a form of the one-loop four-point amplitude of this theory that makes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-09 Zvi Bern , Scott Davies , Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang , Josh Nohle