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We present a systematic framework for the maximally-transcendental part of planar QCD scattering amplitudes and perform the first bootstrap computation of six-gluon MHV amplitudes in massless QCD at the symbol level. By analyzing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Sérgio Carrôlo , Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Qinglin Yang , Yang Zhang

Seven-particle scattering amplitudes in planar super-Yang-Mills theory are believed to belong to a special class of generalised polylogarithm functions called heptagon functions. These are functions with physical branch cuts whose symbols…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-11 James M. Drummond , Georgios Papathanasiou , Marcus Spradlin

We describe the hexagon function bootstrap for solving for six-gluon scattering amplitudes in the large $N_c$ limit of ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. In this method, an ansatz for the finite part of these amplitudes is constrained at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-28 Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Claude Duhr , Matt von Hippel , Jeffrey Pennington

We present a new method for computing complete one-loop amplitudes, including their rational parts, in non-supersymmetric gauge theory. This method merges the unitarity method with on-shell recursion relations. It systematizes a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

We present results for the six-gluon scattering amplitude at one-loop. Since our method is semi-numerical, it yields the result for arbitrary momenta and helicities of the external gluons. We evaluate the colour-ordered sub-amplitudes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Giulia Zanderighi

We derive analytic results for the symbol of certain two-loop Feynman integrals relevant for seven- and eight-point two-loop scattering amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang--Mills theory. We use a bootstrap inspired strategy,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Johannes Henn , Enrico Herrmann , Julio Parra-Martinez

We present the analytic form of the two-loop five-gluon scattering amplitudes in QCD for a complete set of independent helicity configurations of external gluons. These include the first analytic results for five-point two-loop amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-06 S. Abreu , J. Dormans , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , B. Page

We review the recently developed bootstrap method for the computation of high-multiplicity QCD amplitudes at one loop. We illustrate the general algorithm step by step with a six-point example. The method combines (generalized) unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carola F. Berger

The planar three-gluon form factor for the chiral stress tensor operator in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is an analog of the Higgs-to-three-gluon scattering amplitude in QCD. The amplitude (symbol) bootstrap program has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 Tianji Cai , François Charton , Kyle Cranmer , Lance J. Dixon , Garrett W. Merz , Matthias Wilhelm

We detail the calculation of two-loop all-plus helicity amplitudes for pure Yang-Mills theory. The four dimensional unitarity methods and augmented recursion techniques we have developed, together with a knowledge of the singular structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 David C. Dunbar , John H. Godwin , Guy R. Jehu , Warren B. Perkins

We present an analytic expression for the six-point all-plus helicity amplitude in QCD at two-loops. We compute the rational terms in a compact analytic form organised by their singularity structure.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-10 David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins

In PRL 116 (2016) no.6, 062001, the space of planar pentagon functions that describes all two-loop on-shell five-particle scattering amplitudes was introduced. In the present paper we present a natural extension of this space to non-planar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-24 Dmitry Chicherin , Johannes Henn , Vladimir Mitev

We present the two-loop pure gauge contribution to the gluon-gluon scattering amplitude with maximal helicity violation. Our construction of the amplitude does not rely directly on Feynman diagrams, but instead uses its analytic properties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-27 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

We show that the chiral algebra bootstrap, which computes form factors of twistorial theories, can help determine two-loop amplitudes in massless QCD. We give an $n$-gluon result for a previously unknown partial amplitude of the two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-24 Anthony Morales

Scattering amplitudes in planar super-Yang-Mills theory satisfy several basic physical and mathematical constraints, including physical constraints on their branch cut structure and various empirically discovered connections to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-05 Thomas Harrington , Marcus Spradlin

The recently developed on-shell bootstrap for computing one-loop amplitudes in non-supersymmetric theories such as QCD combines the unitarity method with loop-level on-shell recursion. For generic helicity configurations, the recursion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carola F. Berger , Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

Seven-point amplitudes in planar ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory have previously been constructed through four loops using the Steinmann cluster bootstrap, but only at the level of the symbol. We promote these symbols to actual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Lance J. Dixon , Yu-Ting Liu

We bootstrap the two-loop four-point next-to-maximally helicity-violating (NMHV) ratio function for the chiral stress-tensor form factor in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (sYM) at the symbol level. Starting from an ansatz…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Song He , Jiahao Liu , Qinglin Yang

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of two gluons into two gluons in QCD, which are relevant for next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to jet production at hadron colliders. We give the results in the `t…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Zvi Bern , Abilio De Freitas , Lance Dixon

We construct the planar integrand of the six-leg amplitude of massive W-bosons on the special Coulomb branch of the maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to two-loop order. We use the six-dimensional supersymmetric spinor-helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 A. V. Belitsky
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