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We compute the two-loop four-point MHV form factor of the stress-tensor supermultiplet in planar ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM). This form factor is analogous to the Higgs plus four-gluon amplitudes in the heavy-top limit of QCD when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Yuanhong Guo , Lei Wang , Gang Yang , YiXiong Yin

The scattering equations provide a powerful framework for the study of scattering amplitudes in a variety of theories. Their derivation from ambitwistor string theory led to proposals for formulae at one loop on a torus for 10 dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Yvonne Geyer , Lionel Mason , Ricardo Monteiro , Piotr Tourkine

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 the two-loop corrected operator matrix elements contributing to the scale evolution of the longitudinal spin structure function $g_1(x,Q^2)$ calculated up to finite terms which survive in the limit $\epsilon = N - 4 \to 0$. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Matiounine , J. Smith , W. L. van Neerven

We study correlators of null, $n$-sided polygonal Wilson loops with a Lagrangian insertion in the planar limit of the ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This finite observable is closely related to loop integrands of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 Taro V. Brown , Johannes M. Henn , Elia Mazzucchelli , Jaroslav Trnka

We use geometric Landau analysis to determine the singularity structure of four-point, one-cycle negative geometries in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory, which represent certain contributions to the logarithm of the four-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Shruti Paranjape , Marcos Skowronek , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich , He-Chen Weng

We find a new duality for form factors of lightlike Wilson loops in planar $\mathcal N=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. The duality maps a form factor involving an $n$-sided lightlike polygonal super-Wilson loop together with $m$ external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-16 Dmitry Chicherin , Paul Heslop , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Emery Sokatchev

Recently a reformulation of the MHV diagram method in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in momentum twistor space was presented and was shown to be equivalent to the perturbative expansion of the expectation value of a supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini , Gang Yang

This review is a primer on recently established geometric methods for observables in quantum field theories. The main emphasis is on amplituhedra, i.e. geometries encoding scattering amplitudes for a variety of theories. These pertain to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski

We present the analytic evaluation of the second-order corrections to the massive form factors, due to two-loop vertex diagrams with a vacuum polarization insertion, with exact dependence on the external and internal fermion masses, and on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-24 Taushif Ahmed , Giulio Crisanti , Federico Gasparotto , Syed Mehedi Hasan , Pierpaolo Mastrolia

In this paper we study the one- and two-loop corrections to the four-point amplitude of N=6 Chern-Simons matter theory. Using generalized unitarity methods we express the one- and two-loop amplitudes in terms of dual-conformal integrals.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Wei-Ming Chen , Yu-tin Huang

This article revisits and elaborates the significant role of positive geometry of momentum twistor Grassmannian for planar N=4 SYM scattering amplitudes. First we establish the fundamentals of positive Grassmannian geometry for tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-11 Junjie Rao

We obtain for the first time the analytic two-loop four-point MHV lightlike form factor of the stress-tensor supermultiplet in planar ${\cal N}=4$ SYM where the momentum $q$ carried by the operator is taken to be massless. Remarkably, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Yuanhong Guo , Lei Wang , Gang Yang

We incorporate all gauge-invariant local composite operators into the twistor-space formulation of N=4 SYM theory, detailing and expanding on ideas we presented recently in arXiv:1603.04471. The vertices for these operators contain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-01 Laura Koster , Vladimir Mitev , Matthias Staudacher , Matthias Wilhelm

Two-loop MHV amplitudes in planar ${\cal N} = 4$ supersymmetric Yang Mills theory are known to exhibit many intriguing forms of cluster-algebraic structure. We leverage this structure to upgrade the symbols of the eight- and nine-particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-14 John Golden , Andrew J. McLeod

We present a compact analytic expression for the leading colour two-loop five-gluon amplitude in Yang-Mills theory with a single negative helicity and four positive helicities. The analytic result is reconstructed from numerical evaluations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Tiziano Peraro

Inspired by the idea of viewing amplitudes in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM as differential forms on momentum twistor space, we introduce differential forms on the space of spinor variables, which combine helicity amplitudes in any four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Song He , Chi Zhang

We propose multiloop vacuum amplitudes as the optimal building blocks for efficiently assembling theoretical predictions at high-energy colliders. This hypothesis is strongly supported by the manifestly causal properties of the loop-tree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-06 Selomit Ramírez-Uribe , Prasanna K. Dhani , German F. R. Sborlini , Germán Rodrigo

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

Pure gauge theories can be formulated in terms of Wilson Loops correlators by means of the loop equation. In the large-N limit this equation closes in the expectation value of single loops. In particular, using the lattice as a regulator,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Peter D. Anderson , Martin Kruczenski