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Title: Iteration of Planar Amplitudes inMaximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theoryat Three Loops

Abstract

We compute the leading-color (planar) three-loop four-point amplitude of N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 4 - 2{epsilon} dimensions, as a Laurent expansion about {epsilon} = 0 including the finite terms. The amplitude was constructed previously via the unitarity method, in terms of two Feynman loop integrals, one of which has been evaluated already. Here we use the Mellin-Barnes integration technique to evaluate the Laurent expansion of the second integral. Strikingly, the amplitude is expressible, through the finite terms, in terms of the corresponding one- and two-loop amplitudes, which provides strong evidence for a previous conjecture that higher-loop planar N = 4 amplitudes have an iterative structure. The infrared singularities of the amplitude agree with the predictions of Sterman and Tejeda-Yeomans based on resummation. Based on the four-point result and the exponentiation of infrared singularities, we give an exponentiated ansatz for the maximally helicity-violating n-point amplitudes to all loop orders. The 1/{epsilon}{sup 2} pole in the four-point amplitude determines the soft, or cusp, anomalous dimension at three loops in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The result confirms a prediction by Kotikov, Lipatov, Onishchenko and Velizhanin, which utilizes the leading-twist anomalous dimensions in QCD computed by Moch, Vermaseren andmore » Vogt. Following similar logic, we are able to predict a term in the three-loop quark and gluon form factors in QCD.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
890800
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-11210
hep-th/0505205; TRN: US0604798
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Phys.Rev.D72:085001,2005
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Phys.Rev.D72:085001,2005
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; AMPLITUDES; ANOMALOUS DIMENSION; CUSPED GEOMETRIES; DIMENSIONS; FORECASTING; FORM FACTORS; GLUONS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARKS; UNITARITY; YANG-MILLS THEORY; Math and Math Physics, Phenomenology-HEP, Theory-HEP,HEPPH, HEPTH, MATH

Citation Formats

Bern, Zvi, /UCLA, Dixon, Lance J, /SLAC, Smirnov, Vladimir A, and /Moscow State U. Iteration of Planar Amplitudes inMaximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theoryat Three Loops. United States: N. p., 2005. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.085001.
Bern, Zvi, /UCLA, Dixon, Lance J, /SLAC, Smirnov, Vladimir A, & /Moscow State U. Iteration of Planar Amplitudes inMaximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theoryat Three Loops. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.085001
Bern, Zvi, /UCLA, Dixon, Lance J, /SLAC, Smirnov, Vladimir A, and /Moscow State U. 2005. "Iteration of Planar Amplitudes inMaximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theoryat Three Loops". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.085001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/890800.
@article{osti_890800,
title = {Iteration of Planar Amplitudes inMaximally Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theoryat Three Loops},
author = {Bern, Zvi and /UCLA and Dixon, Lance J and /SLAC and Smirnov, Vladimir A and /Moscow State U.},
abstractNote = {We compute the leading-color (planar) three-loop four-point amplitude of N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in 4 - 2{epsilon} dimensions, as a Laurent expansion about {epsilon} = 0 including the finite terms. The amplitude was constructed previously via the unitarity method, in terms of two Feynman loop integrals, one of which has been evaluated already. Here we use the Mellin-Barnes integration technique to evaluate the Laurent expansion of the second integral. Strikingly, the amplitude is expressible, through the finite terms, in terms of the corresponding one- and two-loop amplitudes, which provides strong evidence for a previous conjecture that higher-loop planar N = 4 amplitudes have an iterative structure. The infrared singularities of the amplitude agree with the predictions of Sterman and Tejeda-Yeomans based on resummation. Based on the four-point result and the exponentiation of infrared singularities, we give an exponentiated ansatz for the maximally helicity-violating n-point amplitudes to all loop orders. The 1/{epsilon}{sup 2} pole in the four-point amplitude determines the soft, or cusp, anomalous dimension at three loops in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The result confirms a prediction by Kotikov, Lipatov, Onishchenko and Velizhanin, which utilizes the leading-twist anomalous dimensions in QCD computed by Moch, Vermaseren and Vogt. Following similar logic, we are able to predict a term in the three-loop quark and gluon form factors in QCD.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.72.085001},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/890800}, journal = {Phys.Rev.D72:085001,2005},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2005},
month = {Fri May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2005}
}