ONE-LOOP N-POINT GAUGE-THEORY AMPLITUDES, UNITARITY AND COLLINEAR LIMITS

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BERN, Z
DIXON, L
DUNBAR, DC
KOSOWER, DA
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[1] UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES, DEPT PHYS, LOS ANGELES, CA 90024 USA
[2] CTR ETUD SACLAY, SERV PHYS THEOR SACLAY, F-91191 GIF SUR YVETTE, FRANCE
[3] STANFORD UNIV, STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CTR, STANFORD, CA 94305 USA
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0550-3213(94)90179-1
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We present a technique which utilizes unitarity and collinear limits to construct ansatze for one-loop amplitudes in gauge theory. As an example, we obtain the one-loop contribution to amplitudes for n-gluon scattering in N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with the helicity configuration of the Parke-Taylor tree amplitudes. . We prove that our N = 4 ansatz is correct using general properties of the relevant one-loop n-point integrals. We also give the ''splitting amplitudes'' which govern the collinear behavior of one-loop helicity amplitudes in gauge theories.
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