Basics of generalized unitarity

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/45/454003zbMATH Open1270.81209arXiv1103.1869OpenAlexW1975409473WikidataQ56564444 ScholiaQ56564444MaRDI QIDQ3102287

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Publication date: 2 December 2011

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Abstract: We review generalized unitarity as a means for obtaining loop amplitudes from on-shell tree amplitudes. The method is generally applicable to both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric amplitudes, including non-planar contributions. Here we focus mainly on N=4 Yang-Mills theory, in the context of on-shell superspaces. Given the need for regularization at loop level, we also review a six-dimensional helicity-based superspace formalism and its application to dimensional and massive regularizations. An important feature of the unitarity method is that it offers a means for carrying over any identified tree-level property of on-shell amplitudes to loop level, though sometimes in a modified form. We illustrate this with examples of dual conformal symmetry and a recently discovered duality between color and kinematics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1869

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