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We describe a systematic approach for the evaluation of Witten diagrams for multi-loop scattering amplitudes of a conformally coupled scalar $\phi^4$-theory in Euclidean AdS$_4$, by recasting the Witten diagrams as flat space Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Till Heckelbacher , Ivo Sachs , Evgeny Skvortsov , Pierre Vanhove

Scattering amplitudes in planar ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are dual to expectation values of null polygonal Wilson loops. The Amplituhedron provides a geometric construction for the all-loop integrand as the canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Lance J. Dixon , Umut Oktem , Shruti Paranjape , Jaroslav Trnka , Yongqun Xu , Shun-Qing Zhang

We present the analytic expressions of the three-loop virtual corrections to the helicity amplitudes of 2 -> 2 four-fermion scattering processes in massless QED. The contributing Feynman diagrams are grouped into integrand families…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Giulio Crisanti , Thomas Dave , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Jonathan Ronca , Sid Smith , William J. Torres Bobadilla

We review the recent progress on the numerical implementation of the Loop-Tree Duality Method (LTDM) for the calculation of scattering amplitudes. A central point is the analysis of the singularities of the integrand. In the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-25 Sebastian Buchta , Grigorios Chachamis , Petros Draggiotis , Ioannis Malamos , German Rodrigo

We extend the soft theorems for scattering amplitudes of scalar effective field theories to one-loop order. Our analysis requires carefully accounting for the fact that the soft limit is not guaranteed to commute with evaluating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-18 Timothy Cohen , Ipak Fadakar , Andreas Helset , Filippo Nardi

In this paper we consider tree-level gauge invariant off-shell amplitudes (Wilson line form factors) in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. For the off-shell amplitudes with one leg off-shell we present a conjecture for their Grassmannian integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 L. V. Bork , A. I. Onishchenko

We review the method of uniqueness which is a powerful technique for multi-loop calculations in higher dimensional theories with conformal symmetry. We use the method in momentum space and show that it allows a very transparent evaluation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-06 S. Teber , A. V. Kotikov

In QCD, the amplitude for multiple soft gluon emissions has been shown to exhibit a form of coherence, wherein one-loop corrections are rendered IR finite by the transverse momentum of the real emissions. Using a sequence of soft-collinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Jeffrey Robert Forshaw , Jack Holguin , Aditya Pathak

From the graviton-graviton scattering amplitudes calculated perturbatively in quantum gravity to the one-loop order, we develop further a formalism that allows one to calculate infrared-finite partial-wave amplitudes fulfilling perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-22 J. A. Oller , Marcela Peláez

We emphasize that non-conformal theories provide a natural playground for the ideas of the Maldacena conjecture, opening the possibility of exploring properties that could potentially be in the same universality class as QCD. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Daniel J. Phalen , Cesar A. Terrero-Escalante

We review recent developments in the study of gluon scattering amplitudes of the four-dimensional maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling based on the gauge/string duality and its underlying integrability. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-21 Yuji Satoh

This study seeks a better comprehension of anomalies by exploring (n+1)-point perturbative amplitudes in a 2n-dimensional framework. The involved structures combine axial and vector vertices into odd tensors. This configuration enables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-09 José Fernando Thuorst , Luciana Ebani , Thalis José Girardi

As a test of the gluon scattering amplitude/Wilson loop duality, we evaluate the hexagonal light-like Wilson loop at two loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. We compare its finite part to the Bern-Dixon-Smirnov (BDS) conjecture for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We show how calculable IR loop effects impact positivity bounds in Effective Field Theories with causal and unitary UV completions. We identify infrared singularities which appear in dispersion relations at $|t|\lesssim m^2$. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Brando Bellazzini , Marc Riembau , Francesco Riva

We present a high-precision numerical study of 3D random percolation viewed as a confining gauge theory. Using large correlation matrices among multiform Wilson loops we determine the low-lying masses in various spin channels.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-09-01 Stefano Lottini , Ferdinando Gliozzi

BPS Wilson loops in supersymmetric gauge theories have been the subjects of active research since they are often amenable to exact computation. So far most of the studies have focused on loops that do not intersect. In this paper, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Simone Giombi , Shota Komatsu

We consider long time evolution of small solutions to general multispeed Klein-Gordon systems in 3+1 dimensions. We prove that such solutions are always global and scatter to a linear flow, thus extending previous partial results. The main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-05 Yu Deng

We review recent results concerning the all-order structure of infrared and collinear divergences in massless gauge theory amplitudes. While the exponentiation of these divergences for nonabelian gauge theories has been understood for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-27 Lance J. Dixon , Einan Gardi , Lorenzo Magnea

We investigate the soft behavior of QCD amplitudes involving multiple Wilson lines and derive compact analytic expressions for double soft gluon and double soft quark emissions at one loop. The color correlations of the soft current exhibit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-29 Yu Jiao Zhu

Recently a concise expression for the subleading infrared singularity of dimensional-regularized gauge theories has been proposed. For conformal theories, such relation involves a universal eikonal contribution plus a non-eikonal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 Luis F. Alday