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Tree-level scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory have recently been shown to transform covariantly with respect to a 'dual' superconformal symmetry algebra, thus extending the conventional superconformal symmetry algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-11 J. M. Drummond , J. M. Henn , J. Plefka

The planar three-gluon form factor for the chiral stress tensor operator in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is an analog of the Higgs-to-three-gluon scattering amplitude in QCD. The amplitude (symbol) bootstrap program has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 Tianji Cai , François Charton , Kyle Cranmer , Lance J. Dixon , Garrett W. Merz , Matthias Wilhelm

We present the fully integrated form of the two-loop four-gluon amplitude in $\mathcal{N} = 2$ supersymmetric quantum chromodynamics with gauge group SU$(N_c)$ and with $N_f$ massless supersymmetric quarks (hypermultiplets) in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-18 Claude Duhr , Henrik Johansson , Gregor Kälin , Gustav Mogull , Bram Verbeek

We review recent progress on computing scattering amplitudes of planar N=4 super Yang-Mills at strong coupling by using the AdS/CFT duality. We do explicit computations by using both, dimensional regularization and a cut-off in the radial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Luis F. Alday

We combine recent applications of the two-dimensional quantum inverse scattering method to the scattering amplitude problem in four-dimensional N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory. Integrability allows us to obtain a general, explicit method for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-09 Nils Kanning , Tomasz Lukowski , Matthias Staudacher

We show how to calculate the one-loop scattering amplitude with all gluons of negative helicity in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory using MHV diagrams. We argue that the amplitude with all positive helicity gluons arises from a Jacobian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

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

We examine the dual correspondence between holographic IIB superstring theory and N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at finite values of the coupling constants. In particular we analyze a field theory strong-coupling expansion which is the S-dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Gordon Chalmers , Johanna Erdmenger

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

Following Alday and Maldacena, we describe a string theory method to compute the strong coupling behavior of the scattering amplitudes of quarks and gluons in planar N=2 super Yang-Mills theory in the probe approximation. Explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 John McGreevy , Amit Sever

We use generalized unitarity at the integrand-level to directly construct local, manifestly dual-conformally invariant formulae for all two-loop scattering amplitudes in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (SYM). This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-22 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Jaroslav Trnka

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 present a full two-loop O(g^6) perturbative field theoretic calculation of the expectation value of two circular Maldacena-Wilson loops in D=4 N=4 supersymmetric U(N) gauge theory. It is demonstrated that, after taking into account very…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Jan Plefka , Matthias Staudacher

We detail the calculation of two-loop all-plus helicity amplitudes for pure Yang-Mills theory. The four dimensional unitarity methods and augmented recursion techniques we have developed, together with a knowledge of the singular structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 David C. Dunbar , John H. Godwin , Guy R. Jehu , Warren B. Perkins

We study linear relations between color-ordered all-plus amplitudes at one loop in Yang--Mills theory. We show that on general grounds, there are $(n-1)!/2-2$ relations for $n\ge 5$, leaving only two independent color-ordered amplitudes. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-22 David A. Kosower , Sebastian Pögel

The dilatation operator of planar N=4 super Yang-Mills in the pure scalar SO(6) sector is derived at the two-loop order. Representation theory allows for eight free coefficients in an ansatz for the corresponding spin-chain hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 George Georgiou , Valeria Gili , Jan Plefka

We investigate the asymptotically large loop-momentum behavior of multi-loop amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric quantum field theories in four dimensions. We check residue-theorem identities among color-dressed leading singularities in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Enrico Herrmann , Jaroslav Trnka

We report a result for the third-order correction in $1/N$ expansion to the four-point correlator of the stress tensor multiplet in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang--Mills theory at large 't Hooft coupling, which corresponds to the two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Zhongjie Huang , Ellis Ye Yuan

Noncommutative ${\cal N}=1$ and ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories with gauge group U(N) are studied here using the background field method and superspace background covariant D-algebra in perturbation theory. At one loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Daniela Zanon

We present the Sudakov form factor in full color $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to four loop order and provide uniformly transcendental results for the relevant master integrals through to weight eight.