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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…

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We study the velocity-dependent cusp anomalous dimension in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. In a paper by Correa, Maldacena, Sever, and one of the present authors, a scaling limit was identified in which the ladder diagrams are dominant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 J. M. Henn , T. Huber

We construct an exact analytical solution to the integral equation which is believed to describe logarithmic growth of the anomalous dimensions of high spin operators in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and use it to determine the strong…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-28 B. Basso , G. P. Korchemsky , J. Kotanski

We study off-shell n-particle form factors of half-BPS operators built from n complex scalar fields at the two-loop order in the planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (sYM). These are known as minimal form factors. We construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-27 A. V. Belitsky , L. V. Bork

We compute the complete non-planar integrand for the correlation function of four lightest scalar operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at five-loop order. This is equivalent to the super-correlator of nine stress-tensor multiplets in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Till Bargheer , Albert Bekov

We compute the leading-color (planar) three-loop four-point amplitude of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 4 - 2 epsilon dimensions, as a Laurent expansion about epsilon = 0 including the finite terms. The amplitude was constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We present the details of the analytic calculation of the three-loop angle-dependent cusp anomalous dimension in QCD and its supersymmetric extensions, including the maximally supersymmetric $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Andrey Grozin , Johannes M. Henn , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Peter Marquard

We present the complete four-loop four-point amplitude in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, for a general gauge group and general D-dimensional covariant kinematics, and including all non-planar contributions. We use the method of maximal cuts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-03 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , L. J. Dixon , H. Johansson , R. Roiban

We compute the two-loop Sudakov form factor in three-dimensional N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons theory, using generalised unitarity. As an intermediate step, we derive the non-planar part of the one-loop four-point amplitude in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Andreas Brandhuber , Omer Gurdogan , Dimitrios Korres , Robert Mooney , Gabriele Travaglini

We study the Sudakov form factor and the four-point scattering amplitude on the Coulomb branch of planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM as functions of the Coulomb-branch parameters and kinematic invariants. This setup provides a controlled probe of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Luis F. Alday , Elisabetta Armanini , Andrei V. Belitsky , Kelian Häring , Alexander Zhiboedov

We calculate the anomalous dimension of the cusped Wilson loop in ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to order $\lambda^2$ ($\lambda=g^2_{YM}N$). We show that the cancellation between the diagrams with the three-point vertex and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuri Makeenko , Poul Olesen , Gordon W. Semenoff

We compute analytically the two-loop contribution to the correlation function of the Lagrangian with a four-sided light-like (or null) Wilson loop in N=4 super Yang-Mills. As a non-trivial test of our result, we reproduce the three-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-17 Luis F. Alday , Johannes M. Henn , Jakub Sikorowski

We study the four-point correlation function of stress-tensor supermultiplets in N=4 SYM using the method of Lagrangian insertions. We argue that, as a corollary of N=4 superconformal symmetry, the resulting all-loop integrand possesses an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Emery Sokatchev

We perform direct diagrammatic calculations of the anomalous dimensions of twist-two operators in extended N=2 and N=4 super Yang-Mills theories (SYM). In the case of N=4 SYM, we compute the four-loop anomalous dimension of the twist-two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-08 B. A. Kniehl , V. N. Velizhanin

We compute the non-planar contribution to the universal anomalous dimension of twist-two operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at four loops through Lorentz spin eighteen. Exploiting the results of this and our previous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 B. A. Kniehl , V. N. Velizhanin

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

We consider the universal behavior of half-BPS correlators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills in the cusp limit where two consecutive separations $x_{12}^2,x_{23}^2$ become lightlike. Through the Lagrangian insertion procedure, the Sudakov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-18 Song He , Canxin Shi , Yichao Tang , Yao-Qi Zhang

In the three-dimensional ${\cal N}=6$ Chern-Simons matter (ABJM) theory, the integrand for the logarithm of the scattering amplitude admits a decomposition in terms of negative geometries, which implies that all the infrared divergences…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-28 Martín Lagares , Shun-Qing Zhang

We use generalized unitarity at the integrand-level to directly construct local, manifestly dual-conformally invariant formulae for all two-loop scattering amplitudes in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (SYM). This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-22 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Jaroslav Trnka

We bootstrap the symbol 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. When minimally normalized, this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-03 Lance J. Dixon , Ömer Gürdoğan , Yu-Ting Liu , Andrew J. McLeod , Matthias Wilhelm