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The analytic structure of scattering amplitudes is restricted by Steinmann relations, which enforce the vanishing of certain discontinuities of discontinuities. We show that these relations dramatically simplify the function space for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-14 Simon Caron-Huot , Lance J. Dixon , Andrew McLeod , Matt von Hippel

Virtual two-loop corrections to scattering amplitudes are a key ingredient to precision physics at collider experiments. We compute the full set of planar master integrals relevant to five-point functions in massless QCD, and use these to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-18 T. Gehrmann , J. M. Henn , N. A. Lo Presti

We compute all $2\to5$ gluon scattering amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory in the multi-Regge limit that is sensitive to the non-trivial ("long") Regge cut. We provide the amplitudes through four loops and to all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Lance J. Dixon , Yu-Ting Liu , Julian Miczajka

We reformulate the heptagon cluster bootstrap to take advantage of the Steinmann relations, which require certain double discontinuities of any amplitude to vanish. These constraints vastly reduce the number of functions needed to bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Lance J. Dixon , James Drummond , Thomas Harrington , Andrew J. McLeod , Georgios Papathanasiou , Marcus Spradlin

We bootstrap the three-point form factor of the chiral stress-tensor multiplet in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at six, seven, and eight loops, using boundary data from the form factor operator product expansion.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-21 Lance J. Dixon , Omer Gurdogan , Andrew J. McLeod , Matthias Wilhelm

We use on-shell recursion relations to compute analytically the one-loop corrections to maximally-helicity-violating n-gluon amplitudes in QCD. The cut-containing parts have been computed previously; our work supplies the remaining rational…

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

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of massless quarks and massless gauge bosons in QCD. We use projector techniques to compute the coefficients of the general tensor describing the two-quark two-boson amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 E. W. N. Glover , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

We consider the hexagonal Wilson loop dual to the six-point MHV amplitude in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. We apply constraints from the operator product expansion in the near-collinear limit to the symbol of the remainder function at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Johannes M. Henn

Two-loop corrections to scattering amplitudes are crucial theoretical input for collider physics. Recent years have seen tremendous advances in computing Feynman integrals, scattering amplitudes, and cross sections for five-particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Johannes Henn , Tiziano Peraro , Yingxuan Xu , Yang Zhang

We study the six-particle amplitude in planar $\mathcal{N} = 4$ super Yang-Mills theory in the double scaling (DS) limit, the only nontrivial codimension-one boundary of its positive kinematic region. We construct the relevant function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Vsevolod Chestnov , Georgios Papathanasiou

We review the bootstrap method for constructing six- and seven-particle amplitudes in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory, by exploiting their analytic structure. We focus on two recently discovered properties which greatly…

Using the duality between color and kinematics, we construct two-loop four-point scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=2$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory coupled to $N_f$ fundamental hypermultiplets. Our results are valid in $D\le 6$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Henrik Johansson , Gregor Kälin , Gustav Mogull

Using cutting techniques we obtain the two-loop N=4 super-Yang-Mills helicity amplitudes for four-gluon scattering in terms of scalar integral functions. The N=4 amplitudes are considerably simpler than corresponding QCD amplitudes and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Z. Bern , J. S. Rozowsky , B. Yan

We compute for the first time the two-loop five-particle amplitude in $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity. Starting from the known integrand, we perform an integration-by-parts reduction and express the answer in terms of uniform weight master…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 D. Chicherin , T. Gehrmann , J. M. Henn , P. Wasser , Y. Zhang , S. Zoia

We study the symbol of the two-loop n-gluon MHV amplitude for all Mandelstam regions in multi-Regge kinematics in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. While the number of distinct Mandelstam regions grows exponentially with n, the increase of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-18 Till Bargheer , Georgios Papathanasiou , Volker Schomerus

We compute the planar part of the two-loop five gluon amplitude with all helicities positive. To perform the calculation we develop a D-dimensional generalized unitarity procedure allowing us to reconstruct the amplitude by cutting into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-21 Simon Badger , Hjalte Frellesvig , Yang Zhang

We present advances in the development of the numerical unitarity method for the computation of multi-loop amplitudes in QCD. As an application, we show results for all the leading-color two-loop five-gluon helicity amplitudes. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-26 Samuel Abreu , Fernando Febres Cordero , Harald Ita , Ben Page , Mao Zeng

Splitting amplitudes are universal functions governing the collinear behavior of scattering amplitudes for massless particles. We compute the two-loop g -> gg splitting amplitudes in QCD, N=1, and N=4 super-Yang-Mills theories, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-25 Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , David A. Kosower

We present the leading-color two-loop QCD corrections for Higgs-boson production in association with two jets through gluon fusion in the heavy-top effective theory. We provide analytic expressions for the finite remainders of the helicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-06 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Viktor Kuschke , Michael Ruf , Vasily Sotnikov

By breaking dual conformal invariance, we transform cluster-algebraic predictions for the alphabet of 9-point amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory to analogous predictions for 5- and 6-point processes in QCD. We start by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 Rigers Aliaj , Garbriele Dian , Georgios Papathanasiou