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We generalise the factorization of abelian gauge theory amplitudes to next-to-leading power (NLP) in a soft scale expansion, following a recent generalisation for Yukawa theory. From an all-order power counting analysis of leading and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-01 E. Laenen , J. Sinninghe Damsté , L. Vernazza , W. Waalewijn , L. Zoppi

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

In this paper, we have introduced a fundamentally different approach, based on a bottom-up methodology, to expand tree-level Yang-Mills (YM) amplitudes into Yang-Mills-scalar (YMS) amplitudes and Bi-adjoint-scalar (BAS) amplitudes. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Chang Hu , Kang Zhou

The precise form of the multi-Regge asymptotics of the two-loop six-point MHV amplitude in N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory has been a subject of recent controversy. In this paper we utilize the amplitude/Wilson loop correspondence to obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-25 Robert M. Schabinger

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

The method suggested by Lowell Brown for calculating multi-particle threshold amplitudes is extended to the one-loop level in scalar theories with broken reflection symmetry. A result for the threshold amplitude for multiparticle production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 B. H. Smith

A method to define and calculate one-loop amplitudes with an off-shell space-like, or $k_T$-dependent, gluon is presented. It introduces a practical regularization to deal with the divergencies that appear due to linear denominators, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-01 A. van Hameren

The seven-gluon two-loop full-color Yang-Mills amplitude is presented in a compact analytic form where we use the methods of four-dimensional unitarity cuts to obtain the polylogarithmic pieces and augmented recursion to obtain the rational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Adam R. Dalgleish , David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins , Joseph M. W. Strong

We use supersymmetric generalised unitarity to calculate supercoefficients of box functions in the expansion of scattering amplitudes in N=8 supergravity at one loop. Recent advances have presented tree-level amplitudes in N=8 supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Panagiotis Katsaroumpas , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

In this article we present the worldsheet integrand for one-loop amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric superstring theory involving any number n of massless open string states. The polarization dependence is organized into the same BRST…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-03 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

Some effective field theories exhibit dynamical resonances that, when properly included, mitigate their bad behaviour at high energies. Unitarization of the partial wave amplitudes is the preferred method to unveil such resonances.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-15 Rafael L. Delgado , Antonio Dobado , Domènec Espriu

We use the leading singularity technique to determine the planar three-loop five-particle amplitude in N=4 super Yang-Mills in terms of a simple basis of integrals. We analytically compute the integral coefficients for both the parity-even…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen

We present a new method for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory. It extends the Generalized Unitarity method by constraining not only the integrand of the amplitude but also its full integrated form. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Piotr Bargiela

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

The use of complex analysis for computing one-loop scattering amplitudes is naturally induced by generalised unitarity-cut conditions, fulfilled by complex values of the loop variable. We report on two techniques: the cut-integration with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We study the factorisation properties of one-loop scattering amplitudes in the triple collinear limit and extract the universal splitting amplitudes for processes initiated by a gluon. The splitting amplitudes are derived from the analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-20 Simon Badger , Francesco Buciuni , Tiziano Peraro

In this note, we study the Hopf-algebra-based (HAB) formula of Yang-Mills-Scalar (YMS) amplitudes, which expands a YMS amplitude with massive scalars as a combination of propagator matrices that mix massless scalars corresponding to gluons…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-26 Jiexi Liu , Yi-Jian Du

This article reviews the recent progress in twistor approaches to Wilson loops, amplitudes and their duality for N=4 super Yang-Mills. Wilson loops and amplitudes are derived from first principles using the twistor action for maximally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Tim Adamo , Mathew Bullimore , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

The massless 4-point one-loop amplitude computation in the pure spinor formalism is shown to agree with the computation in the RNS formalism.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Carlos R. Mafra

We review the recently developed bootstrap method for the computation of high-multiplicity QCD amplitudes at one loop. We illustrate the general algorithm step by step with a six-point example. The method combines (generalized) unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carola F. Berger