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We present a general method to account for full colour dependence Yang-Mills amplitudes at loop level. The method fits most naturally into the framework of multi-loop integrand reduction and in a nutshell amounts to consistently retaining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-22 Alexander Ochirov , Ben Page

Two-loop corrections to scattering amplitudes are crucial theoretical input for collider physics. Recent years have seen tremendous advances in computing Feynman integrals, scattering amplitudes, and cross sections for five-particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Johannes Henn , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Yang Zhang

The study of collinear behavior for gauge theories in the spacelike region is of great phenomenological and theoretical importance. We analytically calculate the two-loop spacelike splitting amplitude for the full color N=4 Super-Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-06 Johannes Henn , Rourou Ma , Yongqun Xu , Kai Yan , Yang Zhang , Hua Xing Zhu

We derive a general formalism that relates the spectrum of two-particle systems in a finite volume to physical scattering amplitudes, taking into account the presence of any left-hand branch cuts due to single-particle exchanges. The method…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-02-27 André Baião Raposo , Raúl A Briceño , Maxwell T Hansen , Andrew W Jackura

Standard integration-by-parts (IBP) reduction methods typically yield Feynman integral bases where the reduction of some integrals gives rise to coefficients singular as the dimensional regulator $\epsilon\rightarrow 0$. These singular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-07 Stefano De Angelis , David A. Kosower , Rourou Ma , Zihao Wu , Yang Zhang

Feynman amplitudes at higher orders in perturbation theory generically have complex singular structures. Notwithstanding the emergence of many powerful new methods, the presence of infrared divergences poses significant challenges for their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Charalampos Anastasiou , George Sterman

We review recent progress on the calculation of scattering amplitudes in the high-energy limit. We start by illustrating the shockwave formalism, which allows one to calculate amplitudes as iterated solutions of rapidity evolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-10 Leonardo Vernazza , Giulio Falcioni , Einan Gardi , Niamh Maher , Calum Milloy

We confirm by explicit computation the conjectured all-orders iteration of planar maximally supersymmetric N=4 Yang-Mills theory in the nontrivial case of five-point two-loop amplitudes. We compute the required unitarity cuts of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Bern , M. Czakon , D. A. Kosower , R. Roiban , V. A. Smirnov

We initiate an exploration of the physics and geometry of the amplituhedron, starting with the simplest case of the integrand for four-particle scattering in planar N=4 SYM. We show how the textbook structure of the unitarity double-cut…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jaroslav Trnka

A general one-loop scattering amplitude may be expanded in terms of master integrals. The coefficients of the master integrals can be obtained from tree-level input in a two-step process. First, use known formulas to write the coefficients…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-14 Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Gang Yang

The structure of scattering amplitudes in supergravity theories continues to be of interest. Recently, the amplitude for $2\rightarrow 2$ scattering in ${\cal N}=8$ supergravity was presented at three-loop order for the first time. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-18 Paolo Di Vecchia , Andrés Luna , Stephen G. Naculich , Rodolfo Russo , Gabriele Veneziano , Chris D. White

We present and numerically implement a computational method to construct relativistic scattering amplitudes that obey analyticity, crossing, elastic and inelastic unitarity in three and four spacetime dimensions. The algorithm is based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-17 Piotr Tourkine , Alexander Zhiboedov

We compute all master integrals for massless three-loop four-particle scattering amplitudes required for processes like di-jet or di-photon production at the LHC. We present our result in terms of a Laurent expansion of the integrals in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Johannes Henn , Bernhard Mistlberger , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Pascal Wasser

Two-loop MHV amplitudes in planar ${\cal N} = 4$ supersymmetric Yang Mills theory are known to exhibit many intriguing forms of cluster-algebraic structure. We leverage this structure to upgrade the symbols of the eight- and nine-particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-14 John Golden , Andrew J. McLeod

We show how Stokes' Theorem, in the fashion of the Generalised Cauchy Formula, can be applied for computing double-cut integrals of one-loop amplitudes analytically. It implies the evaluation of phase-space integrals of rational functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We use momentum twistors to evaluate planar loop integrals. Infrared divergences are regulated by the recently proposed AdS-inspired mass regulator. We show that two-loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills can be expanded in terms of basis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-26 J. M. Drummond , J. M. Henn

We construct the complete (planar and non-planar) integrand for the six-loop four-point amplitude in maximal $D\le10$ super-Yang-Mills. This construction employs new advances that combat the proliferation of diagram contributions and state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-13 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Alex Edison , Henrik Johansson

We extend the notion of generalized unitarity cuts to accommodate loop integrals with higher powers of propagators. Such integrals frequently arise in for example integration-by-parts identities, Schwinger parametrizations and Mellin-Barnes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-30 Mads Sogaard , Yang Zhang

We compute the integrand of the full-colour, two-loop, five-gluon scattering amplitude in pure Yang-Mills theory with all helicities positive, using generalized unitarity cuts. Tree-level BCJ relations, satisfied by amplitudes appearing in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-16 Simon Badger , Gustav Mogull , Alexander Ochirov , Donal O'Connell

In this letter we compute a canonical set of cuts of the integrand for MHV amplitudes in planar ${\cal N}=4$ SYM, where all internal propagators are put on-shell. These "deepest cuts" probe the most complicated Feynman diagrams and on-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Cameron Langer , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Jaroslav Trnka