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We demonstrate that loop integrands of (super-)gravity scattering amplitudes possess surprising properties in the ultraviolet (UV) region. In particular, we study the scaling of multi-particle unitarity cuts for asymptotically large momenta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 Alex Edison , Enrico Herrmann , Julio Parra-Martinez , Jaroslav Trnka

In this paper we give all the details of the calculation that we presented in our previous paper ArXiv:0908.0387 where the infrared structure of the MHV gluon amplitudes in the planar limit for ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory was…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-29 L. V. Bork , D. I. Kazakov , G. S. Vartanov , A. V. Zhiboedov

Scattering amplitudes in superconformal field theories do not enjoy this symmetry, because the definition of asymptotic states involve a notion of infinity. Concentrating on planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills, we consider a generalization of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Simon Caron-Huot

The collinear factorization properties of two-loop scattering amplitudes in dimensionally-regulated N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory suggest that, in the planar ('t Hooft) limit, higher-loop contributions can be expressed entirely in terms of…

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

Scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory reveal a remarkable symmetry structure. In addition to the superconformal symmetry of the Lagrangian of the theory, the planar amplitudes exhibit a dual superconformal symmetry.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 J. M. Drummond

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

Null Wilson loops in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills are dual to planar scattering amplitudes. This duality implies hidden symmetries for both objects. We consider closely related infrared finite observables, defined as the Wilson loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-14 Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes M. Henn

Using the duality between color and kinematics, we construct two-loop four-point scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=2$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory coupled to $N_f$ fundamental hypermultiplets. Our results are valid in $D\le 6$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Henrik Johansson , Gregor Kälin , Gustav Mogull

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

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

Exploiting singularities in Feynman integrals to get information about scattering amplitudes has been particularly useful at one-loop in theories where no triangles or bubbles appear. At higher loops the integrals possess subtle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-04 Freddy Cachazo , David Skinner

We confirm by explicit computation the conjectured all-orders iteration of planar maximally supersymmetric N=4 Yang-Mills theory in the nontrivial case of five-point two-loop amplitudes. We compute the required unitarity cuts of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Bern , M. Czakon , D. A. Kosower , R. Roiban , V. A. Smirnov

We present the complete integrands of five-point superamplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory and N=8 supergravity, at one and two loops, for four-dimensional external states and D-dimensional internal kinematics. For N=4 super-Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-18 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Henrik Johansson

We describe the application of a novel approach for the reduction of scattering amplitudes, based on multivariate polynomial division, which we have recently presented. This technique yields the complete integrand decomposition for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-17 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Edoardo Mirabella , Giovanni Ossola , Tiziano Peraro

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 study correlators of null, $n$-sided polygonal Wilson loops with a Lagrangian insertion in the planar limit of the ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This finite observable is closely related to loop integrands of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 Taro V. Brown , Johannes M. Henn , Elia Mazzucchelli , Jaroslav Trnka

We outline the concrete steps involved in building prescriptive master integrand bases for scattering amplitudes beyond the planar limit. We highlight the role of contour choices in such bases, and illustrate the full process by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Cameron Langer , Yaqi Zhang

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

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 use the soft-collinear bootstrap to construct the 8-loop integrand for the 4-point amplitude and 4-stress-tensor correlation function in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Both have a unique representation in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Paul Heslop , Vuong-Viet Tran