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The geometric structure of S-matrix encapsulated by the "Amplituhedron program" has begun to reveal itself even in non-supersymmetric quantum field theories. Starting with the seminal work of Arkani-Hamed, Bai, He and Yan it is now…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Mrunmay Jagadale , Alok Laddha

We initiate a systematic study of amplitudes with massive external particles on the Coulomb-branch of N=4 super Yang Mills theory: 1) We propose that (multi-)soft-scalar limits of massless amplitudes at the origin of moduli space can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Nathaniel Craig , Henriette Elvang , Michael Kiermaier , Tracy Slatyer

A novel way of computing high-order amplitudes in the multi-Regge limit of planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is presented. In this framework, we are able to obtain high-loop and high-leg results by an easy operation on known…

The massless QCD Lagrangian is conformally invariant and, as a consequence, so are the tree-level scattering amplitudes. However, the implications of this powerful symmetry at loop level are only beginning to be explored systematically.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Johannes Henn , Bláithín Power , Simone Zoia

Scattering amplitudes in superconformal field theories do not enjoy this symmetry, because the definition of asymptotic states involve a notion of infinity. Concentrating on planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ Yang-Mills, we consider a generalization of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Simon Caron-Huot

Positive geometry provides a geometric framework where physical observables are encoded as canonical forms associated to regions of kinematic space. In this paper we consider a generalisation to an infinite union of line segments, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Hyungrok Kim , Jonah Stalknecht

The amplituhedron provides a beautiful description of perturbative superamplitude integrands in N=4 SYM in terms of purely geometric objects, generalisations of polytopes. On the other hand the Wilson loop in supertwistor space also gives…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Paul Heslop , Alastair Stewart

This article introduces a systematic framework to understand (not to derive yet) the all-loop 4-particle amplituhedron in planar N=4 SYM, utilizing both positivity and the Mondrian diagrammatics. Its key idea is the simplest one so far: we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-23 Junjie Rao

''Positive geometries'' are a class of semi-algebraic domains which admit a unique ''canonical form'': a logarithmic form whose residues match the boundary structure of the domain. The study of such geometries is motivated by recent…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Francis Brown , Clément Dupont

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 compute the two-loop result for the null pentagonal Wilson loop with a Lagrangian insertion (normalized by the Wilson loop without insertion) in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This finite observable is closely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-04 Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn

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

We demonstrate that loop integrands of (super-)gravity scattering amplitudes possess surprising properties in the ultraviolet (UV) region. In particular, we study the scaling of multi-particle unitarity cuts for asymptotically large momenta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 Alex Edison , Enrico Herrmann , Julio Parra-Martinez , Jaroslav Trnka

Positivity bounds are theoretical constraints on the Wilson coefficients of an effective field theory. These bounds emerge from the requirement that a given effective field theory must be the low-energy limit of a relativistic quantum…

The tree amplituhedra $\mathcal{A}_{n,k}^{(m)}$ are mathematical objects generalising the notion of polytopes into the Grassmannian. Proposed for $m=4$ as a geometric construction encoding tree-level scattering amplitudes in planar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Matteo Parisi

Positive geometries encode the physics of scattering amplitudes in flat space-time and the wavefunction of the universe in cosmology for a large class of models. Their unique canonical forms, providing such quantum mechanical observables,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Paolo Benincasa , Matteo Parisi

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

This paper studies various properties of amplitudes in 3d super Yang Mills theory. First we explain how to obtain the amplitudes of 3d super Yang Mills theories from 4d super Yang Mills theories and obtain their helicity structure. Next, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Arthur E. Lipstein , Lionel Mason

Celestial amplitudes are multiple Mellin transforms w.r.t. conformal dimensions. For arbitrary multiplicity $n$ of massless states in sufficiently high space--time dimension $D$ we perform all Mellin integrations and find an associahedron…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Jin Dong , Stephan Stieberger

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