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In this thesis, we study the integrands of a special four-point correlation function formed of protected half-BPS operators and scattering amplitudes in planar supersymmetric $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills. We use the `soft-collinear bootstrap'…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-07 Vuong-Viet Tran

We compute the symbol of the two-loop five-point scattering amplitude in $\mathcal{N}$ = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including its full color dependence. This requires constructing the symbol of all two-loop five-point nonplanar massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Samuel Abreu , Lance J. Dixon , Enrico Herrmann , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

We apply the Landau equations, whose solutions parameterize the locus of possible branch points, to the one- and two-loop Feynman integrals relevant to MHV amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. We then identify which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Tristan Dennen , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Recently, loop integrands for certain Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes and correlation functions have been shown to be systematically expressible in dlog form, raising the possibility that these loop integrals can be performed directly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Arthur E. Lipstein , Lionel Mason

Scattering amplitudes in planar super-Yang-Mills theory satisfy several basic physical and mathematical constraints, including physical constraints on their branch cut structure and various empirically discovered connections to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-05 Thomas Harrington , Marcus Spradlin

We revisit the symbol bootstrap program for the seven-particle MHV and NMHV amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM) based on the alphabet associated with the $E_6$ cluster algebra. After imposing integrability, cluster…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-24 Song He , Xuhang Jiang , Xiang Li , Jiahao Liu

We apply a bootstrap procedure to two-loop MHV amplitudes in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We argue that the mathematically most complicated part (the $\Lambda^2 B_2$ coproduct component) of the n-particle amplitude is uniquely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 John Golden , Marcus Spradlin

In this work, we compute the two-loop result of the null hexagonal Wilson loop with a Lagrangian insertion in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory via a bootstrap approach. Normalized by the null polygonal Wilson loop itself,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-05 Sérgio Carrôlo , Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Qinglin Yang , Yang Zhang

We describe the hexagon function bootstrap for solving for six-gluon scattering amplitudes in the large $N_c$ limit of ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. In this method, an ansatz for the finite part of these amplitudes is constrained at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-28 Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Claude Duhr , Matt von Hippel , Jeffrey Pennington

We derive the full system of canonical differential equations for all planar two-loop massless six-particle master integrals, and determine analytically the boundary conditions. This fully specifies the solutions, which may be written as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-20 Johannes Henn , Antonela Matijašić , Julian Miczajka , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Yang Zhang

We propose a bootstrap program for the {\it form factor squared} with operator ${\rm tr}(\phi^2)$ in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in the planar limit, which plays a central role for perturbative calculations of important…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 Song He , Xiang Li , Jingwen Lin , Jiahao Liu , Kai Yan

We present analytic results for the finite diagrams contributing to the two-loop eight-point MHV scattering amplitude of planar N=4 SYM. We use a recently proposed representation for the integrand of the amplitude in terms of (momentum)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-21 Luis F. Alday

We describe a general algorithm which builds on several pieces of data available in the literature to construct explicit analytic formulas for two-loop MHV amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. The non-classical part of an amplitude is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 John Golden , Marcus Spradlin

In this work, we calculate two-loop six-point planar massless Feynman integrals at higher orders in the dimensional regulator $\epsilon$, corresponding to higher transcendental weights. In previous works, these integrals were calculated up…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Yuanche Liu , Antonela Matijašić , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Zihua Yang , Yang Zhang

We revisit the conjectural method called Schubert analysis for generating the alphabet of symbol letters for Feynman integrals, which was based on geometries of intersecting lines associated with corresponding cut diagrams. We explain the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-16 Song He , Xuhang Jiang , Jiahao Liu , Qinglin Yang

The full 245-letter symbol alphabet for all planar massless two-loop six-point Feynman integrals was recently determined in arXiv:2412.19884 and arXiv:2501.01847. In a parallel mathematical development, it was shown in arXiv:2408.14956 that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-27 Andrzej Pokraka , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich , He-Chen Weng

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 use momentum twistors to evaluate planar loop integrals. Infrared divergences are regulated by the recently proposed AdS-inspired mass regulator. We show that two-loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills can be expanded in terms of basis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-26 J. M. Drummond , J. M. Henn

We present a new method for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory. It extends the Generalized Unitarity method by constraining not only the integrand of the amplitude but also its full integrated form. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Piotr Bargiela

We compute all planar two-loop six-point Feynman integrals entering scattering observables in massless gauge theories such as QCD. A central result of this paper is the formulation of the differential-equations method under the algebraic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 Samuel Abreu , Pier Francesco Monni , Ben Page , Johann Usovitsch