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Using the method of maximal cuts, we construct the complete D-dimensional integrand of the five-loop four-point amplitude of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including nonplanar contributions. In the critical dimension where this amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , H. Johansson , R. Roiban

We present an expression for the leading-color (planar) four-loop four-point amplitude of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 4-2 e dimensions, in terms of eight separate integrals. The expression is based on consistency of unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zvi Bern , Michael Czakon , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower , Vladimir A. Smirnov

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

Using color-kinematics duality, we construct for the first time the full integrand of the five-loop Sudakov form factor in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including non-planar contributions. This result also provides a first manifestation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-04 Gang Yang

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

Using a careful choice of infrared (IR) subtraction scheme, we demonstrate the cancellation of all terms with transcendental weights 0,1,2 from the finite part of the full-color two-loop four-gluon $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric QCD…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Gregor Kälin , Gustav Mogull , Alexander Ochirov , Bram Verbeek

We review how (dimensionally regulated) scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory provide a useful testing ground for perturbative QCD calculations relevant to collider physics, as well as another avenue for investigating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. J. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

Commutative four dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) is known to be renormalizable for ${\mathcal N} = 1, 2$, and finite for ${\mathcal N} = 4$. However, in the noncommutative version of the model the UV/IR mechanism gives rise to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. F. Ferrari , H. O. Girotti , M. Gomes , A. Yu. Petrov , A. A. Ribeiro , V. O. Rivelles , A. J. da Silva

In this paper we study the one- and two-loop corrections to the four-point amplitude of N=6 Chern-Simons matter theory. Using generalized unitarity methods we express the one- and two-loop amplitudes in terms of dual-conformal integrals.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Wei-Ming Chen , Yu-tin Huang

We find an unexpected iterative structure within the two-loop five-gluon amplitude in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Specifically, we show that a subset of diagrams contributing to the full amplitude, including a two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Freddy Cachazo , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Infrared divergences in scattering amplitudes arise when a loop momentum $\ell$ becomes collinear with a massless external momentum $p$. In gauge theories, it is known that the L-loop logarithm of a planar amplitude has much softer infrared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Alexander DiRe , Amin Shaikh , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We present a method to compute the integrands of one-loop Einstein-Yang-Mills amplitudes for any number of external gauge and gravity multiplets. Our construction relies on the double-copy structure of Einstein-Yang-Mills as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Franziska Porkert , Oliver Schlotterer

By applying the known expressions for SYM and SUGRA tree amplitudes, we write generating functions for the NNMHV box coefficients of SYM as well as the MHV, NMHV, and NNMHV box coefficients for SUGRA. The all-multiplicity generating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-02 Anthony Hall

We show that dual conformal symmetry, mainly studied in planar $\mathcal N = 4$ super-Yang-Mills theory, has interesting consequences for Feynman integrals in nonsupersymmetric theories such as QCD, including the nonplanar sector. A simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Zvi Bern , Michael Enciso , Harald Ita , Mao Zeng

Splitting amplitudes are universal functions governing the collinear behavior of scattering amplitudes for massless particles. We compute the two-loop g -> gg splitting amplitudes in QCD, N=1, and N=4 super-Yang-Mills theories, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-25 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

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 investigate various perturbative properties of the deformed N=4 SYM theory. We carry out a three-loops calculation of the chiral matter superfield propagator and derive the condition on the couplings for maintaining finiteness at this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 G. C. Rossi , E. Sokatchev , Ya. S. Stanev

Supersymmetric integrands for the two-loop five-point amplitudes in ten-dimensional super Yang--Mills and type II supergravity are proposed. The kinematic numerators are manifestly local and satisfy the duality between color and kinematics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-05 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

We derive a compact expression for the three-point MHV form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills at two loops. The main tools of our calculation are generalised unitarity applied at the form factor level, and the compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini , Gang Yang

For N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories in three dimensions, by a direct superspace Feynman diagram approach, we compute the two-loop four-point scattering amplitude with external chiral matter fields. We find that the result is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Marco S. Bianchi , Matias Leoni , Andrea Mauri , Silvia Penati , Alberto Santambrogio