Generalized unitarity and six-dimensional helicity
Journal
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
8
Date Issued
2011
Author(s)
Abstract
We combine the unitarity method with the six-dimensional helicity formalism of Cheung and O'Connell to construct loop-level scattering amplitudes. As a first example, we construct dimensionally regularized QCD one-loop four-point amplitudes. As a nontrivial multiloop example, we confirm that the recently constructed four-loop four-point amplitude of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including nonplanar contributions, is valid for dimensions D≤6. We comment on the connection of our approach to the recently discussed Higgs infrared regulator and on dual conformal properties in six dimensions. © 2011 American Physical Society.
Type
journal article