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The planar scattering amplitudes of $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang--Mills theory display symmetries and structures which underlie their relatively simple analytic properties such as having only logarithmic singularities and no poles at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Zvi Bern , Michael Enciso , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mao Zeng

The connection of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to the (2,0) theory in six dimensions has raised the possibility that it might be perturbatively ultraviolet finite in five dimensions. We test this hypothesis by computing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Lance J. Dixon , Michael R. Douglas , Matt von Hippel , Henrik Johansson

We investigate the consequences of elliptic leading singularities for the unitarity-based representations of two-loop amplitudes in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We show that diagonalizing with respect to these leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-22 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Nikhil Kalyanapuram , Cameron Langer , Kokkimidis Patatoukos

The Amplituhedron provides, via geometric means, the all-loop integrand of scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Unfortunately, dimensional regularization, used conventionally for integration, breaks the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-21 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Wojciech Flieger , Johannes M. Henn , Anders Schreiber , Jaroslav Trnka

We introduce two new graphical-level relations among possible contributions to the four-point correlation function and scattering amplitude in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. When combined with the rung rule, these prove…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Paul Heslop , Vuong-Viet Tran

It has been a long-standing challenge to define a canonical loop integrand for non-supersymmetric gluon scattering amplitudes in the planar limit. Naive integrands are inflicted with $1/0$ ambiguities associated with tadpoles and massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-02 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Qu Cao , Jin Dong , Carolina Figueiredo , Song He

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 derive the four-dimensional integrand 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. In our integrand…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-26 Tushar Gopalka , Enrico Herrmann

We study five-point off-shell conformal integrals and the associated half-BPS correlation functions at two loops in the 't Hooft coupling expansion of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We construct a basis of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Chia-Kai Kuo , Qinglin Yang

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

The conjectured duality between color and kinematics has significantly advanced our understanding of both gauge and gravitational theories. However, constructing numerators that manifest the color-kinematics (CK) duality, even for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-29 Zeyu Li , Gang Yang

Two-loop MHV amplitudes in planar ${\cal N} = 4$ supersymmetric Yang Mills theory are known to exhibit many intriguing forms of cluster-algebraic structure. We leverage this structure to upgrade the symbols of the eight- and nine-particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-14 John Golden , Andrew J. McLeod

Any loop QCD amplitude at full colour is constructed from kinematic and gauge-group building blocks. In a unitarity-based on-shell framework, both objects can be reconstructed from their respective counterparts in tree-level amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-15 Alexander Ochirov , Ben Page

We construct the planar integrand of the six-leg amplitude of massive W-bosons on the special Coulomb branch of the maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to two-loop order. We use the six-dimensional supersymmetric spinor-helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 A. V. Belitsky

The generalization of the pinch technique beyond one loop is presented. It is shown that the crucial physical principles of gauge-invariance, unitarity, and gauge-fixing-parameter independence single out at two loops exactly the same…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Joannis Papavassiliou

A novel way of computing high-order amplitudes in the multi-Regge limit of planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is presented. In this framework, we are able to obtain high-loop and high-leg results by an easy operation on known…

We study the duality between color and kinematics for the Sudakov form factors of ${\rm tr}(F^2)$ in non-supersymmetric pure Yang-Mills theory. We construct the integrands that manifest the color-kinematics duality up to two loops. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Zeyu Li , Gang Yang , Jinxuan Zhang

We present the first benchmark evaluation of the two-loop finite remainders for the production of a top-quark pair in association with a jet at hadron colliders in the gluon channel. We work in the leading colour approximation, and perform…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-14 Simon Badger , Matteo Becchetti , Colomba Brancaccio , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Simone Zoia

This article reviews on-shell methods for analytic computation of loop amplitudes, emphasizing techniques based on unitarity cuts. Unitarity techniques are formulated generally but have been especially useful for calculating one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Ruth Britto

We compute one-loop amplitudes in six-dimensional Yang-Mills theory with half-maximal supersymmetry from first principles: imposing gauge invariance and locality on an ansatz made from string-theory inspired kinematic building blocks yields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Marcus Berg , Igor Buchberger , Oliver Schlotterer