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N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory exhibits a rather surprising duality of Wilson-loop vacuum expectation values and scattering amplitudes. In this paper, we investigate this correspondence at the diagram level. We find that one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Charalampos Anastasiou , Andrea Banfi

We study Feynman integrals in the representation with Schwinger parameters and derive recursive integral formulas for massless 3- and 4-point functions. Properties of analytic (including dimensional) regularization are summarized and we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-09 Erik Panzer

By breaking dual conformal invariance, we transform cluster-algebraic predictions for the alphabet of 9-point amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory to analogous predictions for 5- and 6-point processes in QCD. We start by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 Rigers Aliaj , Garbriele Dian , Georgios Papathanasiou

We revisit the symbol bootstrap program for the seven-particle MHV and NMHV amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM) based on the alphabet associated with the $E_6$ cluster algebra. After imposing integrability, cluster…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-24 Song He , Xuhang Jiang , Xiang Li , Jiahao Liu

We compute three families of two-loop six-point massless Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization, namely the double-box, the pentagon-triangle, and the hegaxon-bubble family. This constitutes the first analytic computation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-01 Johannes M. Henn , Antonela Matijašić , Julian Miczajka , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Yang Zhang

Two-loop corrections to scattering amplitudes are crucial theoretical input for collider physics. Recent years have seen tremendous advances in computing Feynman integrals, scattering amplitudes, and cross sections for five-particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Johannes Henn , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Yang Zhang

In this paper we discuss the geometric integrand expansion of the five-point Wilson loop with one Lagrangian insertion in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We construct the integrand corresponding to an all-loop class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-16 Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Jaroslav Trnka , Shun-Qing Zhang

Multi-loop scattering amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory possess cluster algebra structure. In order to develop a computational framework which exploits this connection, we show how to construct bases of Goncharov polylogarithm functions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Daniel E. Parker , Adam Scherlis , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We provide evidence through two loops, that rational letters of polylogarithmic Feynman integrals are captured by the Landau equations, when the latter are recast as a polynomial of the kinematic variables of the integral, known as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-30 Christoph Dlapa , Martin Helmer , Georgios Papathanasiou , Felix Tellander

We consider the complete set of planar two-loop five-point Feynman integrals with two off-shell external legs. These integrals are relevant, for instance, for the calculation of the second-order QCD corrections to the production of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-07 Samuel Abreu , Dmitry Chicherin , Vasily Sotnikov , Simone Zoia

We calculate convergent 3-loop Feynman diagrams containing a single massive loop equipped with twist $\tau =2$ local operator insertions corresponding to spin $N$. They contribute to the massive operator matrix elements in QCD describing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Jakob Ablinger , Johannes Blümlein , Clemens Raab , Carsten Schneider , Fabian Wißbrock

We evaluate the three-loop five-point pentagon-box-box massless integral family in the dimensional regularization scheme, via canonical differential equation. We use tools from computational algebraic geometry to enable the necessary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-15 Yuanche Liu , Antonela Matijašić , Julian Miczajka , Yingxuan Xu , Yongqun Xu , Yang Zhang

Feynman diagrams are a pictorial way of describing integrals predicting possible outcomes of interactions of subatomic particles in the context of quantum field physics. It is highly desirable to have an intrinsic mathematical…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-02 Matvei Libine

We describe how a dlog representation of Feynman integrals leads to simple differential equations. We derive these differential equations directly in loop momentum or embedding space making use of a localization trick and generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-07 Enrico Herrmann , Julio Parra-Martinez

Motivated by the cluster structure of two-loop scattering amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory we define "cluster polylogarithm functions". We find that all such functions of weight 4 are made up of a single simple building block associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-07 John Golden , Miguel F. Paulos , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We propose to use tensor diagrams and the Fomin-Pylyavskyy conjectures to explore the connection between symbol alphabets of $n$-particle amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills theory and certain polytopes associated to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Lecheng Ren , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Elliptic multiple polylogarithms occur in Feynman integrals and in particular in scattering amplitudes. They can be characterized by their symbol, a tensor product in the so-called symbol letters. In contrast to the non-elliptic case, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-06 Matthias Wilhelm , Chi Zhang

We calculate 3-loop master integrals for heavy quark correlators and the 3-loop QCD corrections to the $\rho$-parameter. They obey non-factorizing differential equations of second order with more than three singularities, which cannot be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 J. Ablinger , J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , M. van Hoeij , E. Imamoglu , C. G. Raab , C. -S. Radu , C. Schneider

We study the elliptic double-box integral, which contributes to generic massless QFTs and is the only contribution to a particular 10-point scattering amplitude in N=4 SYM theory. Based on a Feynman parametrization, we express this integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-07 Alexander Kristensson , Matthias Wilhelm , Chi Zhang

We use a result on mixed Tate motives due to Goncharov (arXiv:alg-geom/9601021) to show that the symbol of an arbitrary one-loop 2m-gon integral in 2m dimensions may be read off directly from its Feynman parameterization. The algorithm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich