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We establish a direct connection between scattering amplitudes in planar four-dimensional theories and a remarkable mathematical structure known as the positive Grassmannian. The central physical idea is to focus on on-shell diagrams as…

We use the duality between color and kinematics to simplify the construction of the complete four-loop four-point amplitude of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including the nonplanar contributions. The duality completely determines the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-17 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , L. J. Dixon , H. Johansson , R. Roiban

We describe a systematic approach to the construction of loop-integrand bases at arbitrary loop-order, sufficient for the representation of general quantum field theories. We provide a graph-theoretic definition of `power-counting' for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Enrico Herrmann , Cameron Langer , Jaroslav Trnka

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 investigate Yangian-invariant deformations of one-loop amplitudes in N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory employing an algebraic representation of amplitudes. In this language, we reproduce the deformed massless box integral describing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Johannes Broedel , Marius de Leeuw , Matteo Rosso

We consider, in the harmonic superspace approach, the six-dimensional N=(1,0) supersymmetric Yang-Mills gauge multiplet minimally coupled to a hypermultiplet in an arbitrary representation of the gauge group. Using the superfield…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-08 I. L. Buchbinder , E. A. Ivanov , B. S. Merzlikin , K. V. Stepanyantz

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 develop a novel bi-harmonic $\mathcal{N}=4$ superspace formulation of the $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (SYM) in four dimensions. In this approach, the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM superfield constraints are solved in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-21 I. L. Buchbinder , E. A. Ivanov , V. A. Ivanovskiy

In this paper the SIM(2) superspace formulation of the supersymmetric Yang-Mills gauge theory minimally coupled to chiral superfields is discussed. The super-Poincare invariant supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is rewritten to SIM(2)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-16 Jiří Vohánka

Recently it has been argued that tree-level scattering amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory are uniquely determined by a careful study of their superconformal and Yangian symmetries. However, at one-loop order these symmetries are known to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-22 Niklas Beisert , Johannes Henn , Tristan McLoughlin , Jan Plefka

In this paper, we present the two-loop correction to scattering amplitudes in three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=6$ Chern-Simons matter theory. We use eight-point case as our main example, but the method generalizes to all multiplicities. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-09 Song He , Yu-tin Huang , Chia-Kai Kuo , Zhenjie Li

Scattering amplitudes in 4d $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory (SYM) can be described by Grassmannian contour integrals whose form depends on whether the external data is encoded in momentum space, twistor space, or momentum twistor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Henriette Elvang , Yu-tin Huang , Cynthia Keeler , Thomas Lam , Timothy M. Olson , Samuel B. Roland , David E. Speyer

We present new formulas for $n$-particle tree-level scattering amplitudes of six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(1,1)$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) and $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ supergravity (SUGRA). They are written as integrals over the moduli space of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-03 Freddy Cachazo , Alfredo Guevara , Matthew Heydeman , Sebastian Mizera , John H. Schwarz , Congkao Wen

We propose a first implementation of the integrand-reduction method for two-loop scattering amplitudes. We show that the residues of the amplitudes on multi-particle cuts are polynomials in the irreducible scalar products involving the loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Giovanni Ossola

We show that there are remarkable simplifications when the MHV diagram formalism for N=4 super Yang-Mills is reformulated in momentum twistor space. The vertices are replaced by unity while each propagator becomes a dual superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-14 Mathew Bullimore , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

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 exploit the $6D, {\cal N}=(1,0)$ and ${\cal N}=(1,1)$ harmonic superspace approaches to construct the full set of the maximally supersymmetric on-shell invariants of the canonical dimension ${\bf d=12}$ in $6D, \,{\cal N}=(1,1)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Serafim Buyucli , Evgeny Ivanov

We construct a superpropagator in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory which is invariant off-shell under a chiral half of supersymmetries. Motivated by the duality with scattering amplitudes in this theory, we apply this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 A. V. Belitsky , S. Caron-Huot

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

Planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (N=4 SYM) is a special quantum field theory. A few of its remarkable features are conformal symmetry at the quantum level, evidence of integrability and, moreover, it is a prime example of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-05 Brenda Penante