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We propose new formulae for the two-loop n-point D-dimensional integrands of scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory and gravity. The loop integrands are written as a double-forward limit of tree-level trivalent diagrams, and are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Yvonne Geyer , Ricardo Monteiro , Ricardo Stark-Muchão

We establish a direct connection between scattering amplitudes in planar four-dimensional theories and a remarkable mathematical structure known as the positive Grassmannian. The central physical idea is to focus on on-shell diagrams as…

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

The dual formulation of planar N = 4 super-Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes makes manifest that the integrand has only logarithmic singularities and no poles at infinity. Recently, Arkani-Hamed, Bourjaily, Cachazo and Trnka conjectured the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-02 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Sean Litsey , James Stankowicz , Jaroslav Trnka

Scattering amplitudes are both a wonderful playground to discover novel ideas in Quantum Field Theory and simultaneously of immense phenomenological importance to make precision predictions for e.g.~particle collider observables and more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-24 Enrico Herrmann , Jaroslav Trnka

The MHV scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM are dual to bosonic light-like Wilson loops. We explore various proposals for extending this duality to generic non-MHV amplitudes. The corresponding dual object should have the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 A. V. Belitsky , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We provide a simple analytic formula for the two-loop six-point ratio function of planar N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory. This result extends the analytic knowledge of multi-loop six-point amplitudes beyond those with maximal helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Johannes M. Henn

It has been known for some time that the standard MHV diagram formulation of perturbative Yang-Mills theory is incomplete, as it misses rational terms in one-loop scattering amplitudes of pure Yang-Mills. We propose that certain Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini , Konstantinos Zoubos

The search for a theory of the S-Matrix has revealed surprising geometric structures underlying amplitudes ranging from the worldsheet to the amplituhedron, but these are all geometries in auxiliary spaces as opposed to kinematic space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Yuntao Bai , Song He , Gongwang Yan

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

In the paper, the family of conformal four-point ladder diagrams in arbitrary space-time dimensions is considered. We use the representation obtained via explicit calculation using the operator approach and conformal quantum mechanics to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-22 S. E. Derkachov , A. P. Isaev , L. A. Shumilov

We introduce and solve an infinite class of loop integrals which generalises the well-known ladder series. The integrals are described in terms of single-valued polylogarithmic functions which satisfy certain differential equations. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 J. M. Drummond

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 present a new method for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory. It extends the Generalized Unitarity method by constraining not only the integrand of the amplitude but also its full integrated form. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Piotr Bargiela

MHV diagrams give an efficient Feynman diagram-like formalism for calculating gauge theory scattering amplitudes on momentum space. Although they arise as the Feynman diagrams from an action on twistor space in an axial gauge, the main…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Tim Adamo , Lionel Mason

We construct all supergravity theories that can be obtained through factorized orbifold projections of N=8 supergravity, exposing their double-copy structure, and calculate their one-loop four-point scattering amplitudes. We observe a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Marco Chiodaroli , Murat Gunaydin , Radu Roiban

We find that scattering amplitudes in massive scalar QCD can manifest the duality between color and kinematics at loop-level. Specifically we construct the one-loop integrands for four-point scattering between two distinct massive scalars,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-10 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Ingrid A. Vazquez-Holm

We show how studying leading singularities of Feynman diagrams, when all momenta are complex, gives a simple way of writing multi-loop and multi-particle scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. The simplicity of the method is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-03-14 Freddy Cachazo

In this paper we explore and expand the connection between two modern descriptions of scattering amplitudes, the CHY formalism and the framework of positive geometries, facilitated by the scattering equations. For theories in the CHY family…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Tomasz Lukowski , Robert Moerman , Jonah Stalknecht

We derive the full system of canonical differential equations for all planar two-loop massless six-particle master integrals, and determine analytically the boundary conditions. This fully specifies the solutions, which may be written as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-20 Johannes Henn , Antonela Matijašić , Julian Miczajka , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Yang Zhang