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In this paper, we give the general expressions for a special series of tree amplitudes of the Yang-Mills theory. This series of amplitudes have two adjacent massless spin-1 particles with extra-dimensional momenta and any number of positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-08 Yang An , Yi Li

The amplitudes of hadron-hadron forward elastic scattering at high energy a re investigated on the basis of analiticity and crossing-symmetry which is valid in QCD. The universal uniformizing variable for them is proposed and the formulae…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Majewski , V. A. Meshcheryakov

We use massive spinor helicity formalism to study scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ super-Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. We compute the amplitudes at an arbitrary point in the Coulomb branch of this theory. We compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-15 Md. Abhishek , Subramanya Hegde , Dileep P. Jatkar , Arnab Priya Saha

We present the complete four-loop four-point amplitude in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, for a general gauge group and general D-dimensional covariant kinematics, and including all non-planar contributions. We use the method of maximal cuts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-03 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , L. J. Dixon , H. Johansson , R. Roiban

We propose an all-loop expression for scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in multi-Regge kinematics valid for all multiplicities, all helicity configurations and arbitrary logarithmic accuracy. Our expression is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-16 V. Del Duca , S. Druc , J. M. Drummond , C. Duhr , F. Dulat , R. Marzucca , G. Papathanasiou , B. Verbeek

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 obtain the two-loop QCD corrections to the Higgs plus three-parton amplitudes with dimension-seven operators in Higgs effective field theory. This provides the two-loop S-matrix elements for Higgs plus one-jet production at the LHC with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Qingjun Jin , Gang Yang

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

We compute the leading colour contributions to five-gluon scattering at two loops in massless QCD. The integrands of all independent helicity amplitudes are evaluated using d-dimensional generalised unitarity cuts and finite field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 Simon Badger , Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Tiziano Peraro

We initiate a systematic study of amplitudes with massive external particles on the Coulomb-branch of N=4 super Yang Mills theory: 1) We propose that (multi-)soft-scalar limits of massless amplitudes at the origin of moduli space can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Nathaniel Craig , Henriette Elvang , Michael Kiermaier , Tracy Slatyer

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

Scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric gauge theory receive a dual description in terms of the expectation value of the super Wilson loop stretched on a null polygonal contour. This makes the analysis amenable to nonperturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 A. V. Belitsky

We compute the next-to-maximally-helicity-violating one-loop n-gluon amplitudes in N=1 super-Yang-Mills theory. These amplitudes contain three negative-helicity gluons and an arbitrary number of positive-helicity gluons, and constitute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-19 Alexander Ochirov

We study scattering amplitudes and form factors in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory in the limit where two pairs of gluons become collinear. We find that, when the virtualities of both collinear pairs are spacelike, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-09 Claude Duhr , Aniruddha Venkata , Chi Zhang

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 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 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

This article reviews the recent progress in twistor approaches to Wilson loops, amplitudes and their duality for N=4 super Yang-Mills. Wilson loops and amplitudes are derived from first principles using the twistor action for maximally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Tim Adamo , Mathew Bullimore , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

6D maximal super Yang-Mills on-shell amplitudes are formulated in superspace using 6 dimensional twistors. The 3,4,5-point tree amplitudes are obtained by supersymmetrizing their bosonic counterparts and confirmed through the BCFW…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang , Warren Siegel

We determine the complete three-loop QCD soft anomalous dimension for multileg amplitudes involving a single massive coloured particle and any number of massless ones. This is achieved by applying a novel strategy based on a lightcone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-03 Einan Gardi , Zehao Zhu