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Conventional wisdom holds that no four-dimensional gravity field theory can be ultraviolet finite. This understanding is based mainly on power counting. Recent studies confirm that one-loop N = 8 supergravity amplitudes satisfy the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , Radu Roiban

We obtain a compact expression for the octagon MHV amplitude / Wilson loop at 3 loops in planar N=4 SYM and in special 2d kinematics in terms of 7 unfixed coefficients. We do this by making use of the cyclic and parity symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Paul Heslop , Valentin V. Khoze

In this article actions for N=4 SYM and N=8 supergravity are formulated in terms of a chiral superfield, which contains only the physical degrees of freedom of either theory. In these new actions, which originate from the lightcone…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-29 Johannes Broedel , Renata Kallosh

We compute the polylogarithmic parts of the two-loop four and five-graviton amplitudes where the external helicities are positive and express these in a simple compact analytic form. We use these to extract the $\ln(\mu^2)$ terms from both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-01 David C. Dunbar , Guy R. Jehu , Warren B. Perkins

We prove the formula for the complete tree-level $S$-matrix of $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity recently conjectured by two of the authors. The proof proceeds by showing that the new formula satisfies the same BCFW recursion relations that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-02 Freddy Cachazo , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

In this contribution we describe computational tools that permit the evaluation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes in N=8 supergravity, in terms of amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We also discuss the remarkable ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Lance Dixon , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban

Using the method of maximal cuts, we construct the complete D-dimensional integrand of the five-loop four-point amplitude of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including nonplanar contributions. In the critical dimension where this amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , H. Johansson , R. Roiban

We present a fully analytic calculation of the leading-order one-loop amplitude for triple Higgs production via gluon fusion, $gg \to HHH$, retaining full dependence on the mass of the heavy quark circulating in the loop. This amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 John M. Campbell , Giuseppe De Laurentis , R. Keith Ellis

Recently, it has been shown that the holomorphic anomaly of unitarity cuts can be used as a tool in determining the one-loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. It is interesting to examine whether this method can be applied to more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 Steven J. Bidder , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Lance J. Dixon , David C. Dunbar

We review the bootstrap method for constructing six- and seven-particle amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory, by exploiting their analytic structure. We focus on two recently discovered properties which greatly…

Multi-loop scattering amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory possess cluster algebra structure. In order to develop a computational framework which exploits this connection, we show how to construct bases of Goncharov polylogarithm functions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Daniel E. Parker , Adam Scherlis , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We use the infrared consistency of one-loop amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory to derive a compact analytic formula for a tree-level NNMHV gluon scattering amplitude in QCD, the first such formula known. We argue that the IR conditions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Radu Roiban , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Recently, the spinor helicity formalism and on-shell superspace were developed for six-dimensional gauge theories with (1,1) supersymmetry. We combine these two techniques with (generalised) unitarity, which is a powerful technique to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Andreas Brandhuber , Dimitrios Korres , Daniel Koschade , Gabriele Travaglini

We compute the even part of the two-loop seven-point planar MHV amplitude in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We find that the even part is expressed in terms of conformal integrals with simple rational coefficients. We also compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-30 C. Vergu

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

We use the leading singularity technique to determine the planar six-particle two-loop MHV amplitude in N=4 super Yang-Mills in terms of a simple basis of integrals. Our result for the parity even part of the amplitude agrees with the one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-05 Freddy Cachazo , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We compute the symbol of the first two-loop amplitudes in planar ${\cal N}=4$ SYM with algebraic letters, the eight-point NMHV amplitude (or the dual octagon Wilson loops). We show how to apply $\bar{Q}$ equations for computing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-25 Chi Zhang , Zhenjie Li , Song He

We present a description for amplitude diagrams in maximal supergravities obtained by dimensional reduction from D=11, derived from a field theory point of view using the pure spinor formalism. The advantages of this approach are the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Martin Cederwall , Anna Karlsson

We present an algorithm for writing down explicit formulas for all tree amplitudes in N=8 supergravity, obtained from solving the supersymmetric on-shell recursion relations. The formula is patterned after one recently obtained for all tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-30 J. M. Drummond , M. Spradlin , A. Volovich , C. Wen

The $\bar{Q}$ equations, rooted in the dual superconformal anomalies, are a powerful tool for computing amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. By using the $\bar{Q}$ equations, we compute the symbol of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Zhenjie Li , Chi Zhang