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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

The connection of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to the (2,0) theory in six dimensions has raised the possibility that it might be perturbatively ultraviolet finite in five dimensions. We test this hypothesis by computing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Lance J. Dixon , Michael R. Douglas , Matt von Hippel , Henrik Johansson

Correlation functions of Wilson lines are relevant for describing the infrared structure of scattering amplitudes. We develop a new method for evaluating a wide class of such Wilson line integrals, and apply it to the calculation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Johannes M. Henn , Tobias Huber

We introduce a constructive method for defining a global loop-integrand basis for scattering amplitudes, encompassing both planar and nonplanar contributions. Our approach utilizes a graph-based framework to establish a well-defined,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-26 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

We study the $SU(\infty)$ lattice Yang-Mills theory at the dimensions $D=2,3,4$ via the numerical bootstrap method. It combines the Makeenko-Migdal loop equations, with a cut-off $L_{\mathrm{max}}$ on the maximal length of loops, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-28 Vladimir Kazakov , Zechuan Zheng

We derive novel recursion relations for all loop amplitude integrands of planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in terms of unitarity-like `cuts' obtained via sequences of BCFW deformations in momentum-twistor space.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-04 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Simon Caron-Huot

Recently, a new construction for complete loop integrands of massless field theories has been proposed, with on-shell tree-level amplitudes delicately incorporated into its algorithm. This new approach reinterprets integrands in a novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-28 Rijun Huang , Qingjun Jin , Junjie Rao , Kang Zhou , Bo Feng

Supersymmetric integrands for the two-loop five-point amplitudes in ten-dimensional super Yang--Mills and type II supergravity are proposed. The kinematic numerators are manifestly local and satisfy the duality between color and kinematics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-05 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

In this paper we discuss in detail computational methods and new results for one-loop virtual corrections to N = 4 super Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes calculated to all orders in epsilon, the dimensional regularization parameter. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Robert M. Schabinger

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

We introduce two new graphical-level relations among possible contributions to the four-point correlation function and scattering amplitude in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. When combined with the rung rule, these prove…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Paul Heslop , Vuong-Viet Tran

6D maximal super Yang-Mills on-shell amplitudes are formulated in superspace using 6 dimensional twistors. The 3,4,5-point tree amplitudes are obtained by supersymmetrizing their bosonic counterparts and confirmed through the BCFW…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang , Warren Siegel

We revisit the large $N$ limit of bosonic $D$-matrix Yang-Mills integrals using two complementary bootstrap methods. In the positivity bootstrap, we obtain bounds for $\langle \text{tr}\, XX \rangle$ and $\langle \text{tr}\, XXXX \rangle$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-09 Wenliang Li , Xinran Su

We review the bootstrap method for constructing six- and seven-particle amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory, by exploiting their analytic structure. We focus on two recently discovered properties which greatly…

We present a general method to account for full colour dependence Yang-Mills amplitudes at loop level. The method fits most naturally into the framework of multi-loop integrand reduction and in a nutshell amounts to consistently retaining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-22 Alexander Ochirov , Ben Page

We combine the unitarity method with the six-dimensional helicity formalism of Cheung and O'Connell to construct loop-level scattering amplitudes. As a first example, we construct dimensionally regularized QCD one-loop four-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang , Harald Ita

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

We give an explicit recursive formula for the all L-loop integrand for scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM in the planar limit, manifesting the full Yangian symmetry of the theory. This generalizes the BCFW recursion relation for tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Simon Caron-Huot , Jaroslav Trnka

We introduce a prescriptive approach to generalized unitarity, resulting in a strictly-diagonal basis of loop integrands with coefficients given by specifically-tailored residues in field theory. We illustrate the power of this strategy in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Enrico Herrmann , Jaroslav Trnka

We use Monte Carlo methods to directly evaluate D-dimensional SU(N) Yang-Mills partition functions reduced to zero Euclidean dimensions, with and without supersymmetry. In the non-supersymmetric case, we find that the integrals exist for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Werner Krauth , Matthias Staudacher