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We derive a compact expression for the three-point MHV form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills at two loops. The main tools of our calculation are generalised unitarity applied at the form factor level, and the compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini , Gang Yang

We perform a high-precision computation of the three-loop three-point form factor of the stress-tensor supermultiplet in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM. Both the leading-color and non-leading-color form factors are expanded in terms of simple integrals.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-04 Xin Guan , Guanda Lin , Xiao Liu , Yan-Qing Ma , Gang Yang

We consider a double OPE limit of the planar four-point function of stress tensor multiplets in N = 4 SYM theory. Loop integrands for this correlator have been constructed to very high order, but the corresponding integrals are explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Burkhard Eden , Felix Paul

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 bootstrap the three-point form factor of the chiral stress-tensor multiplet in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at six, seven, and eight loops, using boundary data from the form factor operator product expansion.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-21 Lance J. Dixon , Omer Gurdogan , Andrew J. McLeod , Matthias Wilhelm

We present the bare one-, two-, and three-loop form factors in massless Quantum Chromodynamics as linear combinations of finite master integrals. Using symbolic integration, we compute their $\epsilon$ expansions and thereby reproduce all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-30 Andreas von Manteuffel , Erik Panzer , Robert M. Schabinger

Correlation functions of Wilson lines are relevant for describing the infrared structure of scattering amplitudes. We develop a new method for evaluating a wide class of such Wilson line integrals, and apply it to the calculation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Johannes M. Henn , Tobias Huber

We calculate the four-loop massless QCD corrections with two closed quark lines to quark and gluon form factors. The results for the gluon form factor and the singlet part of the quark form factor are given for the first time. From our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-22 Andreas von Manteuffel , Robert M. Schabinger

In this paper we study the form factors for the half-BPS operators $\mathcal{O}^{(n)}_I$ and the $\mathcal{N}=4$ stress tensor supermultiplet current $W^{AB}$ up to the second order of perturbation theory and for the Konishi operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-18 L. V. Bork , D. I. Kazakov , G. S. Vartanov

We present the complete formula for the cusp anomalous dimension at four loops in QCD and in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills. In the latter theory it is given by \begin{equation} {\Gamma}^{\rm}_{\rm cusp}\Big|_{\alpha_s^4} = -\left(…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-25 Johannes M. Henn , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Bernhard Mistlberger

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 compute the four-loop QCD corrections to the massless quark-anti-quark-photon form factor $F_q$ in the large-$N_c$ limit. From the pole part we extract analytic expressions for the corresponding cusp and collinear anomalous dimensions.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Johannes Henn , Roman N. Lee , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Matthias Steinhauser

We consider the nonplanar universal anomalous dimension of twist-two operators at four loops in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and push its direct diagrammatic calculation through Lorentz spin j=20, one unit beyond the state of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-26 B. A. Kniehl , V. N. Velizhanin

Form factors of composite operators in the SL(2) sector of N=4 SYM theory are studied up to two loops via the on-shell unitarity method. The non-compactness of this subsector implies the novel feature and technical challenge of an unlimited…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-06 Florian Loebbert , Christoph Sieg , Matthias Wilhelm , Gang Yang

Recently, the maximally-helicity-violating four-point form factor for the chiral stress-energy tensor in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills was computed to three loops at the level of the symbol associated with multiple polylogarithms.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-23 Lance J. Dixon , Shuo Xin

Integrated correlator of four superconformal stress-tensor primaries in $SU(N)$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory in the perturbative limit takes a remarkably simple form, where the $L$-loop coefficient is given by a rational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-21 Shun-Qing Zhang

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

In this paper we provide a detailed account of our calculation, briefly reported in arXiv:2209.09263, of a two-particle form factor of the lowest components of the stress-tensor multiplet in N=4 sYM theory on its Coulomb branch, which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-30 A. V. Belitsky , L. V. Bork , V. A. Smirnov

We present an expression for the leading-color (planar) four-loop four-point amplitude of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 4-2 e dimensions, in terms of eight separate integrals. The expression is based on consistency of unitarity…

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

We present the complete set of planar master integrals relevant to the calculation of three-point functions in four-loop massless Quantum Chromodynamics. Employing direct parametric integrations for a basis of finite integrals, we give…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-22 Andreas von Manteuffel , Robert M. Schabinger