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We compute the one-loop four-point function in {\cal N}=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group U(N). We perform the calculation in {\cal N}=1 superspace using the background field method and obtain the complete off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Alberto Santambrogio , Daniela Zanon

We consider Wilson loops in planar N=4 SYM for null polygons in the limit of two crossing edges. The analysis is based on a renormalisation group technique. We show that the previously obtained result for the leading and next-leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Harald Dorn , Sebastian Wuttke

We consider the correlation function of a null Wilson loop with four edges and a local operator in planar MSYM. By applying the insertion procedure, developed for correlation functions of local operators, we give an integral representation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-17 Luis F. Alday , Paul Heslop , Jakub Sikorowski

We compute for the first time the two-loop corrections to arbitrary n-gon lightlike Wilson loops in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, using efficient numerical methods. The calculation is motivated by the remarkable agreement between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-29 Charalampos Anastasiou , Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Valentin V. Khoze , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

A direct link between a one-loop N-point Feynman diagram and a geometrical representation based on the N-dimensional simplex is established by relating the Feynman parametric representations to the integrals over contents of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. I. Davydychev , R. Delbourgo

We compute the four-point amplitude with external adjoint particles in $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCQCD at two loops using $\mathcal{N}=1$ superspace Feynman diagrams, extending the results of arXiv:1406.7283. We consider the diagrammatic difference…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Marta Leoni , Andrea Mauri , Alberto Santambrogio

We present a simple and consistent way to compute correlation functions in interacting theories with non-trivial phase diagram. As an example we show how to consistently compute the four-point function in three dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-13 Alessandro Codello , Alberto Tonero

We compute the two-loop four-point MHV form factor of the stress-tensor supermultiplet in planar ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM). This form factor is analogous to the Higgs plus four-gluon amplitudes in the heavy-top limit of QCD when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Yuanhong Guo , Lei Wang , Gang Yang , YiXiong Yin

In the planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at weak coupling, we perform the first analytic computation of a two-loop eight-edged Wilson loop embedded into the boundary of AdS3. Its remainder function is given as a function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Vittorio Del Duca , Claude Duhr , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We compute structure constants in N=4 SYM at one loop using Integrability. This requires having full control over the two loop eigenvectors of the dilatation operator for operators of arbitrary size. To achieve this, we develop an algebraic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-25 Nikolay Gromov , Pedro Vieira

The superconformal Ward identities combined with N=2 harmonic analyticity are used to evaluate two-loop four-point correlation functions of gauge-invariant operators in D=4, N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in terms of the well-known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 B. Eden , P. S. Howe , C. Schubert , E. Sokatchev , P. C. West

Given the recent progress in computing three-point functions in N=4 SYM via integrability, I provide here a novel direct calculation of some structure constants at weak coupling. The main focus is on correlators involving more than one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Marco S. Bianchi

We study five-point off-shell conformal integrals and the associated half-BPS correlation functions at two loops in the 't Hooft coupling expansion of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We construct a basis of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Chia-Kai Kuo , Qinglin Yang

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

We present a systematic method for determining the two-loop effective Lagrangian resulting from integrating out a set of heavy particles in an ultraviolet scalar theory. We prove that the matching coefficients are entirely determined from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-19 Javier Fuentes-Martín , Ajdin Palavrić , Anders Eller Thomsen

We compare the two-loop corrections to the finite part of the light-like hexagon Wilson loop with the recent numerical results for the finite part of the MHV six-gluon amplitude in N=4 SYM theory by Bern, Dixon, Kosower, Roiban, Spradlin,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We propose a new framework for computing three-point functions in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills where these correlators take the form of multiple integrals of Separation of Variables type. We test this formalism at weak coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-24 Carlos Bercini , Alexandre Homrich , Pedro Vieira

In this work, we compute the two-loop result of the null hexagonal Wilson loop with a Lagrangian insertion in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory via a bootstrap approach. Normalized by the null polygonal Wilson loop itself,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-05 Sérgio Carrôlo , Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Qinglin Yang , Yang Zhang

Four-point functions of gauge-invariant operators in D=4, N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are studied using N=2 harmonic superspace perturbation theory. The results are expressed in terms of differential operators acting on a scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Eden , P. S. Howe , C. Schubert , E. Sokatchev , P. C. West

Wilson loops with lightlike polygonal contours have been conjectured to be equivalent to MHV scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. We compute such Wilson loops for special polygonal contours at two loops in perturbation theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-29 Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Valentin V. Khoze , Gabriele Travaglini