Five legs @ three loops: N=4 sYM amplitude near mass-shell

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Main Authors: Belitsky, Andrei V., Bork, Leonid V., Lee, Roman N., Smirnov, Vladimir A.
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Published: 2026
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author Belitsky, Andrei V.
Bork, Leonid V.
Lee, Roman N.
Smirnov, Vladimir A.
author_facet Belitsky, Andrei V.
Bork, Leonid V.
Lee, Roman N.
Smirnov, Vladimir A.
contents We present a three-loop analysis of the scattering amplitude of five nearly massless W-bosons in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The basis of the master integrals is established, making use of the unitarity-cut sewing technique in six-dimensional N=(1,1) super-Yang-Mills theory. Its dimensional reduction down to four allows us to generate masses for internal and external states. We descend on the special Coulomb branch of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory by setting all propagator masses to zero. Employing explicit expressions for all integrals that we calculated in a companion paper, we find a concise representation for this infrared-sensitive observable. We confirm its exponentiation, both for infrared and finite terms. The infrared double logarithm manifests the anticipated universality through the octagon anomalous dimension as its governing coefficient. Unlike our previous two-loop result, this consideration reveals that each of the three independent kinematic structures furnishing the amplitude possesses its own function of 't Hooft coupling.
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spellingShingle Five legs @ three loops: N=4 sYM amplitude near mass-shell
Belitsky, Andrei V.
Bork, Leonid V.
Lee, Roman N.
Smirnov, Vladimir A.
High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We present a three-loop analysis of the scattering amplitude of five nearly massless W-bosons in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The basis of the master integrals is established, making use of the unitarity-cut sewing technique in six-dimensional N=(1,1) super-Yang-Mills theory. Its dimensional reduction down to four allows us to generate masses for internal and external states. We descend on the special Coulomb branch of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory by setting all propagator masses to zero. Employing explicit expressions for all integrals that we calculated in a companion paper, we find a concise representation for this infrared-sensitive observable. We confirm its exponentiation, both for infrared and finite terms. The infrared double logarithm manifests the anticipated universality through the octagon anomalous dimension as its governing coefficient. Unlike our previous two-loop result, this consideration reveals that each of the three independent kinematic structures furnishing the amplitude possesses its own function of 't Hooft coupling.
title Five legs @ three loops: N=4 sYM amplitude near mass-shell
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17056