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We extend the analysis of Higgs-regulated planar amplitudes of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to four loops for the four-gluon amplitude and to two loops for the five-gluon amplitude. Our calculations are consistent with a proposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Johannes M. Henn , Stephen G. Naculich , Howard J. Schnitzer , Marcus Spradlin

The maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four-dimensional Minkowski space is an exceptional model of mathematical physics. Even more so in the planar limit, where the theory is believed to be integrable. In particular, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-16 Nils Kanning

For scattering amplitudes in strong background fields, it is -- at least in principle -- possible to perturbatively expand the background to obtain higher-point vacuum amplitudes. In the case of self-dual plane wave backgrounds we consider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Tim Adamo , Anton Ilderton , Alexander J. MacLeod

We present results for the six-gluon scattering amplitude at one-loop. Since our method is semi-numerical, it yields the result for arbitrary momenta and helicities of the external gluons. We evaluate the colour-ordered sub-amplitudes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Giulia Zanderighi

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

This thesis is concerned with the study of scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional conformal field theories, more particularly the N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We study this theory first at tree level by using twistor space techniques and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-10-09 C. Vergu

We compute the six-particle maximally-helicity-violating (MHV) amplitude in planar ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at eight loops, using antipodal duality and the recently computed eight-loop three-point form factor for the chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-17 Lance J. Dixon , Yu-Ting Liu

The large Nc expansion of N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU(Nc) has recently been shown to break down at singularities on the moduli space. We conjecture that by taking Nc to infinity and approaching the singularities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Frank Ferrari

A generating function for the Parke-Taylor amplitudes with any number of positive helicity gravitons in addition to the positive helicity gluons is obtained using the recently constructed self-dual classical solution of the type of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Selivanov

We present a new formula for all single trace tree amplitudes in four dimensional super Yang-Mills coupled to Einstein supergravity. Like the Cachazo-He-Yuan formula, our expression is supported on solutions of the scattering equations, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Tim Adamo , Eduardo Casali , Kai A. Roehrig , David Skinner

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 explore scattering amplitudes on the Coulomb branch of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We introduce a particular pattern of scalar vacuum expectation values that allow us to define amplitudes with a different mass pattern…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-05 Wojciech Flieger , Johannes Henn , Anders Schreiber , Jaroslav Trnka

In previous work, the two-loop five-point amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory and $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity were computed at symbol level. In this paper, we compute the full functional form. The amplitudes are assembled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Simon Caron-Huot , Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Yang Zhang , Simone Zoia

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 double-soft limit of gluon and graviton amplitudes is studied in four dimensions at tree level. In general this limit is ambiguous and we introduce two natural ways of taking it: A consecutive double-soft limit where one particle is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Thomas Klose , Tristan McLoughlin , Dhritiman Nandan , Jan Plefka , Gabriele Travaglini

We provide two derivations of the one-loop dual conformal anomaly of generic n-point superamplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Our proofs are based on simple applications of unitarity, and the known analytic properties…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-09 Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Gabriele Travaglini

Using the recently introduced recursion relations with covariant massive-massless shift, we study tree-level scattering amplitudes involving a pair of massive vector bosons and an arbitrary number of gluons in the massive spinor-helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Sourav Ballav , Arkajyoti Manna

We present a method for the computation of hepta-cuts of two loop scattering amplitudes. Four dimensional unitarity cuts are used to factorise the integrand onto the product of six tree-level amplitudes evaluated at complex momentum values.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-18 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

The Amplituhedron provides, via geometric means, the all-loop integrand of scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Unfortunately, dimensional regularization, used conventionally for integration, breaks the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-21 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Wojciech Flieger , Johannes M. Henn , Anders Schreiber , Jaroslav Trnka

We present a systematic framework for the maximally-transcendental part of planar QCD scattering amplitudes and perform the first bootstrap computation of six-gluon MHV amplitudes in massless QCD at the symbol level. By analyzing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Sérgio Carrôlo , Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Qinglin Yang , Yang Zhang