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We combine the six-dimensional helicity formalism of Cheung and O'Connell with D-dimensional generalized unitarity to obtain a new formalism for computing one-loop amplitudes in dimensionally regularized QCD. With this procedure, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Scott Davies

In this paper we describe algebraic and diagrammatic methods, related to the MHV generating function method, for evaluating and exposing the structure of supersymmetric sums over the states crossing generalized unitarity cuts of multi-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , H. Ita , H. Johansson , R. Roiban

By exploiting relations between gravity and gauge theories, we present two infinite sequences of one-loop n-graviton scattering amplitudes: the `maximally helicity-violating' amplitudes in N=8 supergravity, and the `all-plus' helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , M. Perelstein , J. S. Rozowsky

We propose an all-loop expression for scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in multi-Regge kinematics valid for all multiplicities, all helicity configurations and arbitrary logarithmic accuracy. Our expression is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-16 V. Del Duca , S. Druc , J. M. Drummond , C. Duhr , F. Dulat , R. Marzucca , G. Papathanasiou , B. Verbeek

We extend the generalized D-dimensional unitarity method for numerical evaluation of one-loop amplitudes by incorporating massive particles. The issues related to extending the spinor algebra to higher dimensions, treatment of external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Z. Kunszt , K. Melnikov

We compute the planar part of the two-loop five gluon amplitude with all helicities positive. To perform the calculation we develop a D-dimensional generalized unitarity procedure allowing us to reconstruct the amplitude by cutting into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-21 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

In this work, we prove the new factorization pattern for tree-level Yang-Mills (YM) amplitudes proposed in a companion paper. This pattern reveals a decomposition of amplitudes into a sum of gluings of lower-point amplitudes under specific…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Yong Zhang

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

We investigate generic properties of one-loop amplitudes in unordered gauge theories in four dimensions. For such theories the organisation of amplitudes in manifestly crossing symmetric expressions poses restrictions on their structure and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-03 Simon Badger , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Pierre Vanhove

Recently, based on the curve-integral formulation for stringy Tr$\phi^3$ amplitudes, a combinatorial formulation for Yang-Mills amplitudes has been proposed which describes gluons using pairs of scalars and produces the $n$-gluon amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Jin Dong , Yong-Xiang Su , Dongyu Yang

In this article a first step is made towards the extension of Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten (BCFW) tree level on-shell recursion relations to integrands and integrals of scattering amplitudes to arbitrary loop order. Surprisingly, it is shown…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-30 Rutger H. Boels

We review some recent additions to the tool-chest of techniques for finding compact integrand representations of multiloop gauge-theory amplitudes - including non-planar contributions - applicable for N=4 super-Yang-Mills in four and higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Henrik Johansson

We use on-shell recursion relations to determine the one-loop QCD scattering amplitudes with a massless external quark pair and an arbitrary number (n-2) of positive-helicity gluons. These amplitudes are the last of the unknown infrared-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

We present a geometric derivation of all-multiplicity (single-trace) tree-level Einstein Yang-Mills (EYM) amplitudes ${\cal A}(n;r)$ involving $n$ gluons and $r$ gravitons by a bilinear of two twisted differential forms on the moduli space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Pouria Mazloumi , Stephan Stieberger

We argue that generic one-loop scattering amplitudes in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories can be computed equivalently with MHV diagrams or with Feynman diagrams. We first present a general proof of the covariance of one-loop non-MHV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

The BCFW recursion relations provide a powerful way to compute tree amplitudes in gauge theories and gravity, but only hold if some amplitudes vanish when two of the momenta are taken to infinity in a particular complex direction. This is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jared Kaplan

We present a prescription for computing tree-level scattering amplitudes in 10D super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory using the pure spinor worldline formalism. The pure spinor formalism has proven to be a powerful framework for studying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Max Guillen , Marcelo dos Santos , Eggon Viana

We construct the complete (planar and non-planar) integrand for the six-loop four-point amplitude in maximal $D\le10$ super-Yang-Mills. This construction employs new advances that combat the proliferation of diagram contributions and state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-13 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Alex Edison , Henrik Johansson

We present a new, explicit formula for all tree-level amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. The formula is written as a certain contour integral of the connected prescription of Witten's twistor string, expressed in link variables. A very…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Jaroslav Trnka , Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen

We investigate the existence of relations for finite one-loop amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory. Using a diagrammatic formalism and a remarkable connection between tree and loop level, we deduce sequences of amplitude relations for any number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Henrik Johansson , Thomas Sondergaard