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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

Scattering amplitudes in $D$ dimensions involve particular terms that originate from the interplay of UV poles with the $D-4$ dimensional parts of loop numerators. Such contributions can be controlled through a finite set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Jean-Nicolas Lang , Stefano Pozzorini , Hantian Zhang , Max F. Zoller

The conjectured duality between color and kinematics has significantly advanced our understanding of both gauge and gravitational theories. However, constructing numerators that manifest the color-kinematics (CK) duality, even for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-29 Zeyu Li , Gang Yang

We propose an all-loop expression for scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in multi-Regge kinematics valid for all multiplicities, all helicity configurations and arbitrary logarithmic accuracy. Our expression is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-16 V. Del Duca , S. Druc , J. M. Drummond , C. Duhr , F. Dulat , R. Marzucca , G. Papathanasiou , B. Verbeek

We study linear relations between color-ordered all-plus amplitudes at one loop in Yang--Mills theory. We show that on general grounds, there are $(n-1)!/2-2$ relations for $n\ge 5$, leaving only two independent color-ordered amplitudes. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-22 David A. Kosower , Sebastian Pögel

The planar scattering amplitudes of $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super-Yang--Mills theory display symmetries and structures which underlie their relatively simple analytic properties such as having only logarithmic singularities and no poles at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Zvi Bern , Michael Enciso , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mao Zeng

We present an integral representation for the parity-even part of the two-loop six-point planar NMHV amplitude in terms of Feynman integrals which have simple transformation properties under the dual conformal symmetry. We probe the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-22 D. A. Kosower , R. Roiban , C. Vergu

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 present a three-loop analysis of the scattering amplitude of five nearly massless W-bosons in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The basis of the master integrals is established, making use of the unitarity-cut sewing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Andrei V. Belitsky , Leonid V. Bork , Roman N. Lee , Vladimir A. Smirnov

In this letter, we generalize the recursion methods based on cut equations arXiv:2412.21027, originally developed for scalar theories, to gluons in pure Yang-Mills theory. In gauge theories, planar loop integrands are subtle to defined and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-21 Qu Cao , Fan Zhu

The simplicity of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory makes it an ideal theoretical laboratory for developing computational tools, which eventually find their way to QCD applications. In this contribution, we continue the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Georgios Papathanasiou

We provide an action for self-dual Yang-Mills theory which is a simple truncation of the usual Yang-Mills action. Only vertices that violate helicity conservation maximally are included. One-loop amplitudes in the self-dual theory then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Chalmers , W. Siegel

We compute the even part of the planar two-loop MHV amplitude in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, for an arbitrary number of external particles. The answer is expressed as a sum of conformal integrals.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 C. Vergu

The scattering amplitudes of planar N = 4 super-Yang-Mills exhibit a number of remarkable analytic structures, including dual conformal symmetry and logarithmic singularities of integrands. The amplituhedron is a geometric construction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Sean Litsey , James Stankowicz , Jaroslav Trnka

One-loop amplitudes of gluons in N=4 gauge theory can be written as linear combinations of known scalar box integrals with coefficients that are rational functions. In this paper we show how to use generalized unitarity to basically read…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Ruth Britto , Freddy Cachazo , Bo Feng

We compute one-loop matter amplitudes in homogeneous Maxwell-Einstein supergravities with N=2 supersymmetry using the double-copy construction. We start from amplitudes of N=2 super-Yang-Mills theory with matter that obey manifestly the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Maor Ben-Shahar , Marco Chiodaroli

We extend the applications of prescriptive unitarity beyond the planar limit to provide local, polylogarithmic, integrand-level representations of six-particle MHV scattering amplitudes in both maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Enrico Herrmann , Cameron Langer , Andrew J. McLeod , Jaroslav Trnka

To explore color/kinematics duality for general representations of the gauge group we formulate the duality for general abelian orbifolds of the SU(N), N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions, which have fields in the bi-fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Marco Chiodaroli , Qingjun Jin , Radu Roiban

We derive a compact expression for the three-point MHV form factors of half-BPS operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills at two loops. The main tools of our calculation are generalised unitarity applied at the form factor level, and the compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini , Gang Yang

This thesis is focused on the development of new mathematical methods for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in gauge theories. In this work we combine, for the first time, the unitarity-based construction for integrands, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-21 Ulrich Schubert