Analytic two-loop form factors in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$ \mathcal{N} = 4 $\end{document} SYM

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Andreas Brandhuber
Gabriele Travaglini
Gang Yang
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[1] Queen Mary University of London,Centre for Research in String Theory, School of Physics and Astronomy
[2] Weizmann Institute of Science,Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
[3] Universita¨t Hamburg,II. Institut fu¨r Theoretische Physik
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Supersymmetric gauge theory; Scattering Amplitudes; QCD;
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10.1007/JHEP05(2012)082
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We derive a compact expression for the three-point MHV form factors of half- BPS operators in \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$ \mathcal{N} = 4 $\end{document} super Yang-Mills at two loops. The main tools of our calculation are generalised unitarity applied at the form factor level, and the compact expressions for supersymmetric tree-level form factors and amplitudes entering the cuts. We confirm that infrared divergences exponentiate as expected, and that collinear factorisation is entirely captured by an ABDK/BDS ansatz. Next, we construct the two-loop remainder function obtained by subtracting this ansatz from the full two-loop form factor and compute it numerically. Using symbology, combined with various physical constraints and symme- tries, we find a unique solution for its symbol. With this input we construct a remarkably compact analytic expression for the remainder function, which contains only classical poly- logarithms, and compare it to our numerical results. Furthermore, we make the surprising observation that our remainder is equal to the maximally transcendental piece of the two- loop Higgs plus three-gluon scattering amplitudes in QCD.
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