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We discuss the extraction of heavy-light pseudo-scalar to light pseudo-scalar decay form factors from finite time correlation functions. We place particular emphasis on the contamination from excited states employing summed ratios and input…

We study 1/2-BPS Wilson loop operators in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on $d$-dimensional spheres. Their vacuum expectation values can be computed at large $N$ through supersymmetric localisation. The holographic duals are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-08 Davide Astesiano , Pieter Bomans , Fridrik Freyr Gautason , Valentina Giangreco M. Puletti , Alexia Nix

We compute the two-loop Sudakov form factor in three-dimensional N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons theory, using generalised unitarity. As an intermediate step, we derive the non-planar part of the one-loop four-point amplitude in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Andreas Brandhuber , Omer Gurdogan , Dimitrios Korres , Robert Mooney , Gabriele Travaglini

We initiate an exploration of on-shell functions in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM beyond the planar limit by providing compact, combinatorial expressions for all leading singularities of MHV amplitudes and showing that they can always be expressed as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-31 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Alexander Postnikov , Jaroslav Trnka

The one-loop Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) contributions to the weak and electromagnetic dipole form factors of the top quark are presented. Far from the Z peak, they are not sufficient to account for all the new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 W. Hollik , J. I. Illana , S. Rigolin , C. Schappacher , D. Stöckinger

A summary of the calculation of the color-planar and complete light quark contributions to the massive three-loop form factors is presented. Here a novel calculation method for the Feynman integrals is used, solving general uni-variate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-14 J. Ablinger , J. Blümlein , P. Marquard , N. Rana , C. Schneider

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

Matrix elements of Wilson-line dressed operators play a central role in the factorization of soft and collinear modes in gauge theories. When expressed using spinor helicity variables, these so-called form factors admit a classification…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Timothy Cohen , Marc Riembau

We study the multipoint super-correlation functions of the full non-chiral stress-tensor multiplet in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory in the Born approximation. We derive effective supergraph Feynman rules for them. Surprisingly, the Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-07 Dmitry Chicherin , Emery Sokatchev

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

We accomplish for the first time the two-loop computation of the leading-twist contribution to the pion electromagnetic form factor by employing the effective field theory formalism rigorously. The next-to-next-to-leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-07 Yao Ji , Bo-Xuan Shi , Jian Wang , Ye-Fan Wang , Yu-Ming Wang , Hui-Xin Yu

The quarkonic contributions to the three-loop heavy-quark form factors for vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudoscalar currents are described by closed form difference equations for the expansion coefficients in the limit of small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-07 Johannes Blümlein , Abilio De Freitas , Peter Marquard , Narayan Rana , Carsten Schneider

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

We calculate the massive two--loop pure singlet Wilson coefficients for heavy quark production in the unpolarized case analytically in the whole kinematic region and derive the threshold and asymptotic expansions. We also recalculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-12 J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , C. G. Raab , K. Schönwald

The Yangian level-one hypercharge generator for the super Wilson loop in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is constructed. Moreover, evidence for the presence of a corresponding symmetry generator at all higher levels is provided. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Hagen Munkler

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 reproduce the two-loop seven-point remainder function in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory by direct integration of conformally-regulated chiral integrands. The remainder function is obtained as part of the two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Matthias Volk , Matt von Hippel

In this paper, we compute the correlation functions of Wilson(-'t~Hooft) loops with chiral primary operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with $SO(N)$ gauge symmetry, which has a holographic dual description of Type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-31 Hong-Zhe Zhang , Wan-Zhe Feng , Jun-Bao Wu

N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory exhibits a rather surprising duality of Wilson-loop vacuum expectation values and scattering amplitudes. In this paper, we investigate this correspondence at the diagram level. We find that one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Charalampos Anastasiou , Andrea Banfi

We show how to calculate the one-loop scattering amplitude with all gluons of negative helicity in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory using MHV diagrams. We argue that the amplitude with all positive helicity gluons arises from a Jacobian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini