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In this letter, we focus on the application of the off-shell recursion method proposed in \cite{Tao:2025fch} in the Yang-Mills planar loop integrands, which starts with solving the classical equation of motion via the perturbiner method.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Yi-Xiao Tao

We show how curing an anomaly of the twistor uplift of self-dual Yang-Mills theory implies linear relations among one-loop, $n$-gluon, color-ordered subamplitudes in QCD, when all $n$ gluon helicities are positive, or when exactly one is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 Lance J. Dixon , Anthony Morales

We describe how to compute planar gluon scattering amplitudes at strong coupling in N=4 super Yang Mills by using the gauge/string duality. The computation boils down to finding a certain classical string configuration whose boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Luis F. Alday , Juan Maldacena

We compute the full-color two-loop five-gluon amplitude for the all-plus helicity configuration. In order to achieve this, we calculate the required master integrals for all permutations of the external legs, in the physical scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-21 S. Badger , D. Chicherin , T. Gehrmann , G. Heinrich , J. M. Henn , T. Peraro , P. Wasser , Y. Zhang , S. Zoia

We present new relations for scattering amplitudes of color ordered gluons and gravitons in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory. Tree-level amplitudes of arbitrary multiplicities and polarizations involving up to three gravitons and up to two color…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-24 Dhritiman Nandan , Jan Plefka , Oliver Schlotterer , Congkao Wen

We briefly review the string technology needed to calculate Yang-Mills amplitudes at two loops, and we apply it to the evaluation of two-loop vacuum diagrams.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Lorenzo Magnea , Rodolfo Russo

We use the recently developed generalized double-copy procedure to construct an integrand for the five-loop four-point amplitude of N=8 supergravity. This construction starts from a naive double copy of the previously computed corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 Zvi Bern , John Joseph M. Carrasco , Wei-Ming Chen , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban , Mao Zeng

We present the analytic form of the two-loop five-gluon scattering amplitudes in QCD for a complete set of independent helicity configurations of external gluons. These include the first analytic results for five-point two-loop amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-06 S. Abreu , J. Dormans , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , B. Page

A scalar cubic action that classically reproduces the self-dual Yang--Mills equations is shown to generate one-loop QCD amplitudes for external gluon all with the same helicity. This result is related to the symmetries of the self-dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Daniel Cangemi

An intriguing new duality between planar MHV gluon amplitudes and light-like Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills is investigated. We extend previous checks of the duality by performing a two-loop calculation of the rectangular and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 J. M. Henn

The infrared exponentiation properties of dimensionally-regularized multi-loop scattering amplitudes are typically hidden at the level of the integrand, materializing only after integral evaluation. We address this long-standing problem by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-22 Robert M. Schabinger

In this paper, we have introduced a fundamentally different approach, based on a bottom-up methodology, to expand tree-level Yang-Mills (YM) amplitudes into Yang-Mills-scalar (YMS) amplitudes and Bi-adjoint-scalar (BAS) amplitudes. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Chang Hu , Kang Zhou

We shall interpret the null hexagonal Wilson loop (or, equivalently, six gluon scattering amplitude) in 4D ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills, or, precisely, an integral representation of its matrix part, via an ADHM-like instanton construction.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Davide Fioravanti , Hasmik Poghosyan , Rubik Poghossian

In this letter, we exploit generalised unitarity in order to calculate the cut-constructible part of one-loop amplitudes in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. In particular, we rederive the n-gluon MHV amplitudes for both the adjacent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Massimiliano Vincon

We initiate a systematic study of amplitudes with massive external particles on the Coulomb-branch of N=4 super Yang Mills theory: 1) We propose that (multi-)soft-scalar limits of massless amplitudes at the origin of moduli space can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Nathaniel Craig , Henriette Elvang , Michael Kiermaier , Tracy Slatyer

We develop a unitarity method to compute one-loop amplitudes with massless propagators in d=4-2*epsilon dimensions. We compute double cuts of the loop amplitudes via a decomposition into a four-dimensional and a -2*epsilon-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Charalampos Anastasiou , Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Zoltan Kunszt , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

We explore scattering amplitudes on the Coulomb branch of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We introduce a particular pattern of scalar vacuum expectation values that allow us to define amplitudes with a different mass pattern…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-05 Wojciech Flieger , Johannes Henn , Anders Schreiber , Jaroslav Trnka

We provide the reformulations of Yang-Mills theories in terms of gauge invariant metric-like variables in three and four dimensions. The reformulations are used to analyze the dimension two gluon condensate and give gauge invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-01 Zhi-Qiang Guo

The color structure of two-loop gluon amplitudes is examined both from a color trace basis expansion and an alternative based upon structure constants. We use use this as a vehicle for systemising relations between the partial amplitudes of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-04 David C. Dunbar

In the previous paper hep-th/0604112 we calculated the first of the five planar two-loop diagrams for the Lcc vertex of the general non-Abelian Yang-Mills theory, the vertex which allows us in principle to obtain all other vertices via the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-05 Gorazd Cvetic , Igor Kondrashuk