One-Loop Gauge Theory Amplitudes in N=4 Super Yang-Mills from MHV Vertices

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  • 26 July 2004
Abstract
We propose a new, twistor string theory inspired formalism to calculate loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. In this approach, maximal helicity violating (MHV) tree amplitudes of N=4 super Yang-Mills are used as vertices, using an off-shell prescription introduced by Cachazo, Svrcek and Witten, and combined into effective diagrams that incorporate large numbers of conventional Feynman diagrams. As an example, we apply this formalism to the particular class of MHV one-loop scattering amplitudes with an arbitrary number of external legs in N=4 super Yang-Mills. Remarkably, our approach naturally leads to a representation of the amplitudes as dispersion integrals, which we evaluate exactly. Our results for the MHV amplitudes are in precise agreement with the expressions for this class of amplitudes obtained previously by Bern, Dixon, Dunbar and Kosower using the cut-constructibility approach.

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