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We study an alternative to dimensional regularisation of planar scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory by going to the Coulomb phase of the theory. The infrared divergences are regulated by masses obtained from a Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-24 Luis F. Alday , Johannes M. Henn , Jan Plefka , Theodor Schuster

We present analytic forms of three-loop four-gluon planar amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theory in this letter. Gauge invariant bases and a set of proper master integrals are chosen such that the amplitudes are explicitly invariant under…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-15 Qingjun Jin , Hui Luo

We show how generalised unitarity cuts in D = 4 - 2 epsilon dimensions can be used to calculate efficiently complete one-loop scattering amplitudes in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This approach naturally generates the rational…

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

We conjecture a simple relationship between the one-loop maximally helicity violating gluon amplitudes of ordinary QCD (all helicities identical) and those of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (all but two helicities identical). Because the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. C. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

We compute the leading-color (planar) three-loop four-point amplitude of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 4 - 2 epsilon dimensions, as a Laurent expansion about epsilon = 0 including the finite terms. The amplitude was constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , Vladimir A. Smirnov

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

We provide evidence in favor of the conjectured duality between color and kinematics for the case of nonsupersymmetric pure Yang-Mills amplitudes by constructing a form of the one-loop four-point amplitude of this theory that makes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-09 Zvi Bern , Scott Davies , Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang , Josh Nohle

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 demonstrate that the tree-level amplitudes of maximal super-Yang-Mills theory in six dimensions, when stripped of their overall momentum and supermomentum delta functions, are covariant with respect to the six-dimensional dual conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-03 Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang

All four-point mixed gluon-graviton amplitudes in pure Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with at most one state of negative helicity are computed at one-loop order and maximal powers of the gauge coupling using D-dimensional generalized unitarity.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Dhritiman Nandan , Jan Plefka , Gabriele Travaglini

We present work on two-loop amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theory with all gluons of identical helicity. We show how to obtain their rational terms -- the hardest parts to compute -- via well-understood one-loop unitarity techniques.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-15 David A. Kosower , Sebastian Pögel

We provide simple superspaces based on a formulation of spinor helicity in general even dimensions. As a distinguishing feature these spaces admit a fermionic super-momentum conserving delta function solution to the on-shell supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Rutger H. Boels , Donal O'Connell

We present a conjecture for the normalisation of the twist two conformal partial waves in a double OPE limit of the four-point function of stress tensor multiplets in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory up to three loops. This contains…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-18 Burkhard Eden

We present an expression for the leading-color (planar) four-loop four-point amplitude of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 4-2 e dimensions, in terms of eight separate integrals. The expression is based on consistency of unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zvi Bern , Michael Czakon , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower , Vladimir A. Smirnov

The coulomb branch of $N=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills gauge theories in $d=2+1$ is studied. A direct connection between gauge theories and monopole moduli spaces is presented. It is proposed that the hyper-K\"ahler metric of supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Gordon Chalmers , Amihay Hanany

We show that classical, non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories coupled to spin-1/2 and spin-0 elementary matter fields, in (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski space-time, possess exact structures that resemble integrability, with an infinite number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-19 L. A. Ferreira , H. Malavazzi

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

We construct the planar integrand of the six-leg amplitude of massive W-bosons on the special Coulomb branch of the maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to two-loop order. We use the six-dimensional supersymmetric spinor-helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 A. V. Belitsky

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

Recently, the spinor helicity formalism and on-shell superspace were developed for six-dimensional gauge theories with (1,1) supersymmetry. We combine these two techniques with (generalised) unitarity, which is a powerful technique to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Andreas Brandhuber , Dimitrios Korres , Daniel Koschade , Gabriele Travaglini