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Recently it has been argued that tree-level scattering amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory are uniquely determined by a careful study of their superconformal and Yangian symmetries. However, at one-loop order these symmetries are known to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-22 Niklas Beisert , Johannes Henn , Tristan McLoughlin , Jan Plefka

Recently, it has been shown that the holomorphic anomaly of unitarity cuts can be used as a tool in determining the one-loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. It is interesting to examine whether this method can be applied to more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 Steven J. Bidder , N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Lance J. Dixon , David C. Dunbar

The MHV scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM are dual to bosonic light-like Wilson loops. We explore various proposals for extending this duality to generic non-MHV amplitudes. The corresponding dual object should have the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 A. V. Belitsky , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We construct the six-point NMHV one-loop amplitude in ${\cal N}=4$ supergravity using unitarity and recursion. The use of recursion requires the introduction of rational descendants of the cut-constructible pieces of the amplitude and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-04 David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins

We argue that generic one-loop scattering amplitudes in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories can be computed equivalently with MHV diagrams or with Feynman diagrams. We first present a general proof of the covariance of one-loop non-MHV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

We observe that the three-gluon form factor of the chiral part of the stress-tensor multiplet in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory is dual to the six-gluon MHV amplitude on its parity-preserving surface. Up to a simple variable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-24 Lance J. Dixon , Omer Gurdogan , Andrew J. McLeod , Matthias Wilhelm

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

Loop-level scattering amplitudes for massless particles have singularities in regions where tree amplitudes are perfectly smooth. For example, a $2\to4$ gluon scattering process has a singularity in which each incoming gluon splits into a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Lance J. Dixon , Ilya Esterlis

We review generalized unitarity as a means for obtaining loop amplitudes from on-shell tree amplitudes. The method is generally applicable to both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric amplitudes, including non-planar contributions. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Zvi Bern , Yu-tin Huang

The seven-gluon two-loop full-color Yang-Mills amplitude is presented in a compact analytic form where we use the methods of four-dimensional unitarity cuts to obtain the polylogarithmic pieces and augmented recursion to obtain the rational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Adam R. Dalgleish , David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins , Joseph M. W. Strong

In this paper we describe algebraic and diagrammatic methods, related to the MHV generating function method, for evaluating and exposing the structure of supersymmetric sums over the states crossing generalized unitarity cuts of multi-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , H. Ita , H. Johansson , R. Roiban

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 construct all supergravity theories that can be obtained through factorized orbifold projections of N=8 supergravity, exposing their double-copy structure, and calculate their one-loop four-point scattering amplitudes. We observe a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Marco Chiodaroli , Murat Gunaydin , Radu Roiban

Explicit expressions for one-loop five supergraviton scattering amplitudes in both type II superstring theories are determined by making use of the pure spinor formalism. The type IIB amplitude can be expressed in terms of a doubling of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael B. Green , Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

We consider the leading and subleading UV divergences for the four-point on-shell scattering amplitudes in D=6,8,10 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories in the planar limit. These theories belong to the class of maximally supersymmetric gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 A. T. Borlakov , D. I. Kazakov , D. M. Tolkachev , D. E. Vlasenko

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

The construction of perturbative quantities on non-linear backgrounds leads to the possibility of incorporating strong field effects in perturbation theory. We continue a programme to construct QFT observables on self-dual backgrounds. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-15 Giuseppe Bogna , Lionel Mason

Integrands for colour ordered scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM are dual to those of correlation functions of the energy-momentum multiplet of the theory. The construction can relate amplitudes with different numbers of legs. By graph…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-05 Raquel G. Ambrosio , Burkhard Eden , Timothy Goddard , Paul Heslop , Charles Taylor

We present the computation of the eight-particle three-loop amplitude beyond leading logarithmic accuracy in the multi-Regge limit of planar N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory. Starting from the all-loop dispersion integral form of the amplitude,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-27 Robin Marzucca , Bram Verbeek

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