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We obtain a compact expression for the octagon MHV amplitude / Wilson loop at 3 loops in planar N=4 SYM and in special 2d kinematics in terms of 7 unfixed coefficients. We do this by making use of the cyclic and parity symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Paul Heslop , Valentin V. Khoze

Form factors of the stress-tensor multiplet operator in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills reveal surprisingly simple structures similar to those appearing in scattering amplitudes. In this paper we show that, as for the case of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-13 Lorenzo Bianchi , Andreas Brandhuber , Rodolfo Panerai , Gabriele Travaglini

We present an ansatz for the planar five-loop four-point amplitude in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in terms of loop integrals. This ansatz exploits the recently observed correspondence between integrals with simple conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , H. Johansson , D. A. Kosower

We compute the six-dimensional hexagon integral with three non-adjacent external masses analytically. After a simple rescaling, it is given by a function of six dual conformally invariant cross-ratios. The result can be expressed as a sum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Vittorio Del Duca , Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Claude Duhr , Johannes M. Henn , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We extend the twistor string theory inspired formalism introduced in hep-th/0407214 for calculating loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory to the case of N=1 (and N=2) super Yang-Mills. Our approach yields a novel representation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 James Bedford , Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

We propose a new, twistor string theory inspired formalism to calculate loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. In this approach, maximal helicity violating (MHV) tree amplitudes of N=4 super Yang-Mills are used as vertices, using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

The S-matrix for planar N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory can be computed as the correlation function for a holomorphic polygonal Wilson loop in twistor space. In an axial gauge, this leads to the construction of the all-loop integrand via MHV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Arthur E. Lipstein , Lionel Mason

We discuss what predictions can be made for one-loop superamplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory by using anomalous dual conformal symmetry. We show that the anomaly coefficient is a specific combination of two-mass hard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , 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 discuss the calculation of one-loop amplitudes in N=8 supergravity using MHV diagrams. In contrast to MHV amplitudes of gluons in Yang-Mills, tree-level MHV amplitudes of gravitons are not holomorphic in the spinor variables. In order to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Adele Nasti , Gabriele Travaglini

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

We construct the three-loop four-point amplitude of N=8 supergravity using the unitarity method. The amplitude is ultraviolet finite in four dimensions. Novel cancellations, not predicted by traditional superspace power-counting arguments,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Z. Bern , J. J. Carrasco , L. J. Dixon , H. Johansson , D. A. Kosower , R. Roiban

We consider the two-loop four-point amplitude in N=2 super QED, and show that there exists an approximate recursive structure similar to that captured by the ABDK/BDS ansatz for MHV amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. Furthermore, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini , Massimiliano Vincon

Employing a cutting-edge bootstrap method, we analytically compute the three-loop pentagonal Wilson loop with Lagrangian insertion in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. This object is conjectured to coincide with the maximally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Yongqun Xu , Shun-Qing Zhang , Yang Zhang

Using the method of maximal cuts, we construct the complete D-dimensional integrand of the five-loop four-point amplitude of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including nonplanar contributions. In the critical dimension where this amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , H. Johansson , R. Roiban

In this contribution we describe computational tools that permit the evaluation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes in N=8 supergravity, in terms of amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We also discuss the remarkable ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Lance Dixon , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban

We compute the next-to-maximally-helicity-violating one-loop n-gluon amplitudes in N=1 super-Yang-Mills theory. These amplitudes contain three negative-helicity gluons and an arbitrary number of positive-helicity gluons, and constitute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-19 Alexander Ochirov

In this review we discuss some recent developments related to one-loop N = 4 super Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes calculated to all orders in epsilon. It is often the case that one-loop gauge theory computations are carried out to order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Robert M. Schabinger

We bootstrap the three-point form factor of the chiral stress-tensor multiplet in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at six, seven, and eight loops, using boundary data from the form factor operator product expansion.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-21 Lance J. Dixon , Omer Gurdogan , Andrew J. McLeod , Matthias Wilhelm

We derive a compact expression for the three-point MHV form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills at two loops. The main tools of our calculation are generalised unitarity applied at the form factor level, and the compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini , Gang Yang