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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

In this letter, we focus on the application of the off-shell recursion method proposed in \cite{Tao:2025fch} in the Yang-Mills planar loop integrands, which starts with solving the classical equation of motion via the perturbiner method.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Yi-Xiao Tao

Scattering amplitudes with spinning particles are shown to decompose into multiple copies of simple building blocks to all loop orders, which can be used to efficiently reduce these amplitudes to sums over scalar integrals. Absence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-28 Rutger H. Boels , Qingjun Jin , Hui Luo

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

SU(N) Yang-Mills integrals form a new class of matrix models which, in their maximally supersymmetric version, are relevant to recent non-perturbative definitions of 10-dimensional IIB superstring theory and 11-dimensional M-theory. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 Werner Krauth , Jan Plefka , Matthias Staudacher

Using an extension of the concept of twist field in QFT to space-time (external) symmetries, we study conical twist fields in two-dimensional integrable QFT. These create conical singularities of arbitrary excess angle. We show that, upon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-19 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Benjamin Doyon , Davide Fioravanti

We derive the four-dimensional integrand of the maximal-helicity-violating four-particle form factor for the chiral part of the stress-tensor supermultiplet in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at two loops. In our integrand…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-26 Tushar Gopalka , Enrico Herrmann

We introduce a BCFW shift which can be used to recursively build the full Yang-Mills tree-level amplitude as a function of polarization vectors. Furthermore, in line with the recent results of arXiv:1612.02797, we conjecture that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-17 Laurentiu Rodina

The quantum effects encapsulated in loop corrections are crucial in quantum field theory for a wide variety of formal and phenomenological applications. In this article we propose and check a definition of the so-called single cut…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-18 Rutger H. Boels , Hui Luo

Yang-Mills tree-level amplitudes contain singularities of codimension one like collinear and multi-particle factorizations, codimension two such as soft limits, as well as higher codimension singularities. Traditionally, BCFW-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-28 Sayeh Rajabi

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

We study four point planar loop amplitudes at an arbitrary point in the Coulomb branch of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. We study two particle unitary cuts up to four loop order. We explicitly verify that bubble and triangle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-01 Md. Abhishek , Subramanya Hegde , Dileep P. Jatkar , Arnab Priya Saha , Amit Suthar

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

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 review some recent additions to the tool-chest of techniques for finding compact integrand representations of multiloop gauge-theory amplitudes - including non-planar contributions - applicable for N=4 super-Yang-Mills in four and higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Henrik Johansson

We prove that all tree-level amplitudes in pure (super-)gravity can be expressed as term-wise, gauge-invariant double-copies of those of pure (super-)Yang-Mills obtained via BCFW recursion. These representations are far from unique: varying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-07 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Nikhil Kalyanapuram , Kokkimidis Patatoukos , Michael Plesser , Yaqi Zhang

We discuss the extension of the maximal-unitarity method to two loops, focusing on the example of the planar double box. Maximal cuts are reinterpreted as contour integrals, with the choice of contour fixed by the requirement that integrals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-11 Henrik Johansson , David A. Kosower , Kasper J. Larsen

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 calculate the general planar dual-conformally invariant double-pentagon and pentabox integrals in four dimensions. Concretely, we derive one-fold integral representations for these elliptic integrals over polylogarithms of weight three.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-18 Anne Spiering , Matthias Wilhelm , Chi Zhang

We present a method to compute the integrands of one-loop Einstein-Yang-Mills amplitudes for any number of external gauge and gravity multiplets. Our construction relies on the double-copy structure of Einstein-Yang-Mills as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Franziska Porkert , Oliver Schlotterer