Two-loop five-point all-plus helicity Yang-Mills amplitude

2016/03/31 by David C. Dunbar, Warren B. Perkins · 1 citation
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Algorithm #Amplitude #Combinatorics #Gauge theory #Geometry #Helicity #Loop (graph theory) #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Point (geometry) #Quantum mechanics #Recursion (computer science) #Simplicity #Unitarity #Yang–Mills existence and mass gap #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.93.085029

published as Phys. Rev. D 93, 085029 (2016) · title changed to match journal style

arxiv created 2016/04/07 · openalex publication_date 2016/04/21 · arxiv updated 2016/04/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We recompute the recently derived two-loop five-point all-plus Yang-Mills amplitude using unitarity and recursion. Recursion requires augmented recursion to determine the subleading pole. Using these methods, the simplicity of this amplitude is understood.

Citations

• One-loop self-dual and N = 4 super Yang-Mills
• Direct extraction of one-loop integral coefficients
• One-Loop n-Point Gauge Theory Amplitudes, Unitarity and Collinear Limits

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