Published 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Deep Into the Amplituhedron: Amplitude Singularities at All Loops and Legs

Description

In this letter we compute a canonical set of cuts of the integrand for MHV amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM, where all internal propagators are put on-shell. These ''deepest cuts''probe the most complicated Feynman diagrams and on-shell processes that can possibly contribute to the amplitude, but are also naturally associated with remarkably simple geometric facets of the amplituhedron. The recent reformulation of the amplituhedron in terms of combinatorial geometry directly in the kinematic (momentum-twistor) space plays a crucial role in understanding this geometry and determining the cut. This provides us with the first non-trivial results on scattering amplitudes in the theory valid for arbitrarily many loops and external particle multiplicities.

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Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
122
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
0031-9007

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
54043778
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
FEYNMAN DIAGRAM; GEOMETRY; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES
Descriptors DEC
AMPLITUDES; DIAGRAMS; INFORMATION; MATHEMATICS

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
SC0009988; SC0009999
Funding organization
USDOE Office of Science - SC (United States)
Secondary number(s)
OSTIID--1493850