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Recently, an explicit, recursive formula for the all-loop integrand of planar scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM has been described, generalizing the BCFW formula for tree amplitudes, and making manifest the Yangian symmetry of the theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Jaroslav Trnka

We propose a first implementation of the integrand-reduction method for two-loop scattering amplitudes. We show that the residues of the amplitudes on multi-particle cuts are polynomials in the irreducible scalar products involving the loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Giovanni Ossola

Recent progress in unitarity techniques for one-loop scattering amplitudes makes a numerical implementation of this method possible. We present a 4-dimensional unitarity method for calculating the cut-constructible part of amplitudes and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Z. Kunszt

Motivated by a new term-wise factorised formula for the two-loop MHV integrand for scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM), together with recent results for the five-point negative ladders in loop space, we present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-25 Ross Glew , Tomasz Lukowski

In this paper, we define the momentum amplituhedron in the four-dimensional split-signature space of dual momenta. It encodes scattering amplitudes at tree level and loop integrands for N=4 super Yang-Mills in the planar sector. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-07 Livia Ferro , Ross Glew , Tomasz Lukowski , Jonah Stalknecht

We define and study a positive geometry $\Delta^{(L)}$ which serves as a natural generalization of loop amplituhedra to two-dimensional Minkowski space $\mathbb{R}^{1,1}$. The geometry is formulated in the framework of lightcone geometries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Jonah Stalknecht

Scattering amplitudes in planar ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are dual to expectation values of null polygonal Wilson loops. The Amplituhedron provides a geometric construction for the all-loop integrand as the canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Lance J. Dixon , Umut Oktem , Shruti Paranjape , Jaroslav Trnka , Yongqun Xu , Shun-Qing Zhang

We describe a constructive procedure to separate overlapping infrared divergences in multi-loop integrals. Working with a parametric representation in D=4-2*epsilon dimensions, adequate subtractions lead to a Laurent series in epsilon,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Binoth , G. Heinrich

We review recent progress that we have achieved in evaluating the class of fully massive vacuum integrals at five loops. After discussing topics that arise in classification, evaluation and algorithmic codification of this specific set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Thomas Luthe , York Schroder

A non-trivial consequence of the super-correlator/super-amplitude duality is that the integrand of the four-point correlation function of stress-tensor multiplets in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills contains a certain combination of n-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Paul Heslop , Vuong-Viet Tran

The calculation of the two-loop corrections to the three jet production rate and to event shapes in electron-positron annihilation requires the computation of a number of up to now unknown two-loop four-point master integrals with one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Gehrmann , E. Remiddi

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

We apply the threshold resummation formalism for semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) to derive the soft and virtual corrections for the SIDIS cross section up to four loops in QCD. Using the recently computed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-01 Saurav Goyal , Sven-Olaf Moch , Vaibhav Pathak , Narayan Rana , V. Ravindran

In this paper, we explore the chamber dissection of the loop-geometry of Correlahedron, which encodes the loop integrand of four-point stress-energy correlators in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills. We demonstrate that at four loops,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Song He , Yu-tin Huang , Chia-Kai Kuo

We review recent progress in D-dimensional integrand reduction algorithms for two loop amplitudes and give examples of their application to non-planar maximal cuts of the five-point all-plus helicity amplitude in QCD.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-14 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

The dual formulation of planar N = 4 super-Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes makes manifest that the integrand has only logarithmic singularities and no poles at infinity. Recently, Arkani-Hamed, Bourjaily, Cachazo and Trnka conjectured the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-02 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Sean Litsey , James Stankowicz , Jaroslav Trnka

We describe a systematic approach to the construction of loop-integrand bases at arbitrary loop-order, sufficient for the representation of general quantum field theories. We provide a graph-theoretic definition of `power-counting' for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Enrico Herrmann , Cameron Langer , Jaroslav Trnka

The state-of-the-art in current two-loop QCD amplitude calculations is at five-particle scattering. Computing two-loop six-particle processes requires knowledge of the corresponding one-loop amplitudes to higher orders in the dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Johannes M. Henn , Antonela Matijašić , Julian Miczajka

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

We compute the differential equations for the two remaining integral topologies contributing to the leading colour two-loop amplitudes for $pp \rightarrow t\bar{t}j$. We derive differential equations for the master integrals by solving the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-01 Simon Badger , Matteo Becchetti , Nicolò Giraudo , Simone Zoia