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The amplituhedron determines scattering amplitudes in planar ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills by a single "positive geometry" in the space of kinematic and loop variables. We study a closely related definition of the amplituhedron for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Johannes Henn , Jaroslav Trnka

Relations between multiple unitarity cuts and coproducts of Feynman integrals are extended to allow for internal masses. These masses introduce new branch cuts, whose discontinuities can be derived by placing single propagators on shell and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-02 Samuel Abreu , Ruth Britto , Hanna Grönqvist

We develop a manifestly supersymmetric version of the generalized unitarity cut method for calculating scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory. We illustrate the power of this method by computing the one-loop n-point NMHV super-amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

Following the proposal of arXiv:1312.6673, multi-particle scattering amplitudes are represented as conserved higher-spin charges. The advantage of such reformulation is that multi-particle amplitudes acquire the form of an integral of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Y. O. Goncharov , M. A. Vasiliev

We develop a systematic procedure for computing maximal unitarity cuts of multiloop Feynman integrals in arbitrary dimension. Our approach is based on the Baikov representation in which the structure of the cuts is particularly simple. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Jorrit Bosma , Mads Sogaard , Yang Zhang

We define a new geometry obtained from the all-loop amplituhedron in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM by reducing its four-dimensional external and loop momenta to three dimensions. Focusing on the simplest four-point case, we provide strong evidence that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-19 Song He , Chia-Kai Kuo , Zhenjie Li , Yao-Qi Zhang

In this second part of our investigation of the analytic structure of the $2\to5$ scattering amplitude in the planar limit of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM in multi-Regge kinematics we compute, in all kinematic regions, the Regge cut contributions in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-05 Jochen Bartels , Andrey Kormilitzin , Lev N. Lipatov

The purpose of this review is to bridge the gap between a standard course in quantum field theory and recent fascinating developments in the studies of on-shell scattering amplitudes. We build up the subject from basic quantum field theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-14 Henriette Elvang , Yu-tin Huang

The traditional formulation of string amplitudes via worldsheet integrals provides a parametrization of the moduli space that fails to expose the complete singularity structure of the amplitudes. This problem is solved by the positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 Carolina Figueiredo , Marcos Skowronek

We recently proposed the Halohedron to be the 1-loop Amplituhedron for planar $\phi^3$ theory. Here we prove this claim by showing how it is possible to extract the integrand for the partial amplitude $m^1_n(1,\dots,n|1,\dots,n)$ from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Giulio Salvatori

We argue, that the multi-particle scattering amplitudes in N=4 SUSY at large $N_c$ and in the multi-Regge kinematics for some physical regions have the high energy behavior appearing from the contribution of the Mandelstam cuts in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 L. N. Lipatov

We present a method for the computation of hepta-cuts of two loop scattering amplitudes. Four dimensional unitarity cuts are used to factorise the integrand onto the product of six tree-level amplitudes evaluated at complex momentum values.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-18 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

We show that one-loop amplitudes in massless gauge theories can be determined from single cuts. By cutting a single propagator and putting it on-shell, the integrand of an n-point one-loop integral is transformed into an (n+2)-particle tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-25 E. W. Nigel Glover , Ciaran Williams

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

This note addresses the problem of spurious poles in gauge-theoretic scattering amplitudes. New twistor coordinates for the momenta are introduced, based on the concept of dual conformal invariance. The cancellation of spurious poles for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-12 Andrew Hodges

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

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

In this note we continue the exploration of the polytope picture for scattering amplitudes, where amplitudes are associated with the volumes of polytopes in generalized momentum-twistor spaces. After a quick warm-up example illustrating the…

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

One-loop amplitudes of gluons in supersymmetric Yang-Mills are four-dimensional cut-constructible. This means that they can be determined from their unitarity cuts. We present a new systematic procedure to explicitly carry out any finite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 Ruth Britto , Evgeny Buchbinder , Freddy Cachazo , Bo Feng

The quantum effects encapsulated in loop corrections are crucial in quantum field theory for a wide variety of formal and phenomenological applications. In this article we propose and check a definition of the so-called single cut…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-18 Rutger H. Boels , Hui Luo