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Generalized unitarity for N=4 super-amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

We develop a manifestly supersymmetric version of the generalized unitarity cut method for calculating scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory. We illustrate the power of this method by computing the one-loop n-point NMHV super-amplitudes. The result confirms two conjectures which we made in arXiv:0807.1095 [hep-th]. Firstly, we derive the compact, manifestly dual superconformally covariant form of the NMHV tree amplitudes for arbitrary number and types of external particles. Secondly, we show that the ratio of the one-loop NMHV to the MHV amplitude is dual conformal invariant.

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@article{arxiv.0808.0491,
  title  = {Generalized unitarity for N=4 super-amplitudes},
  author = {J. M. Drummond and J. Henn and G. P. Korchemsky and E. Sokatchev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.0491},
  year   = {2015}
}

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41 pages, 9 figures

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