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    Next-to-Maximal Helicity Violating Amplitudes in Gauge Theory

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    Using the novel diagrammatic rules recently proposed by Cachazo, Svrcek, and Witten, I give a compact, manifestly Lorentz-invariant form for tree-level gauge-theory amplitudes with three opposite helicities.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figur

    Twistor Space Structure of the Box Coefficients of N=1 One-loop Amplitudes

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    We examine the coefficients of the box functions in N=1 supersymmetric one-loop amplitudes. We present the box coefficients for all six point N=1 amplitudes and certain all nn example coefficients. We find for ``next-to MHV'' amplitudes that these box coefficients have coplanar support in twistor space.Comment: 14 pages, minor typos correcte

    Two-Loop Ď•4\phi^4-Diagrams from String Theory

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    Using the {\em cutting and sewing} procedure we show how to get Feynman diagrams, up to two-loop order, of Φ4\Phi^{4}-theory with an internal SU(N) symmetry group, starting from tachyon amplitudes of the open bosonic string theory. In a properly defined field theory limit, we easily identify the corners of the string moduli space reproducing the correctly normalized field theory amplitudes expressed in the Schwinger parametrization.Comment: 28 pages, 12 figure

    Relations between some analytic representations of one-loop scalar integrals

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    We compare several parametrized analytic expressions for an arbitrary off-shell one-loop nn-point function in scalar field theory in DD-dimensional space-time, and show their equivalence both directly and through path-integral methods.Comment: 12 pages, NIKHEF-H/94-2

    All Non-Maximally-Helicity-Violating One-Loop Seven-Gluon Amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory

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    We compute the non-MHV one-loop seven-gluon amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, which contain three negative-helicity gluons and four positive-helicity gluons. There are four independent color-ordered amplitudes, (- - - + + + +), (- - + - + + +), (- - + + -+ +) and (- + - + - + +). The MHV amplitudes containing two negative-helicity and five positive-helicity gluons were computed previously, so all independent one-loop seven-gluon helicity amplitudes are now known for this theory. We present partial information about an infinite sequence of next-to-MHV one-loop helicity amplitudes, with three negative-helicity and n-3 positive-helicity gluons, and the color ordering (- - - + + ... + +); we give a new coefficient of one class of integral functions entering this amplitude. We discuss the twistor-space properties of the box-integral-function coefficients in the amplitudes, which are quite simple and suggestive.Comment: 54 pages, v3 minor correction

    On the Coupling of Gravitons to Matter

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    Using relationships between open and closed strings, we present a construction of tree-level scattering amplitudes for gravitons minimally coupled to matter in terms of gauge theory partial amplitudes. In particular, we present examples of amplitudes with gravitons coupled to vectors or to a single fermion pair. We also present two examples with massive graviton exchange, as would arise in the presence of large compact dimensions. The gauge charges are represented by flavors of dynamical scalars or fermions. This also leads to an unconventional decomposition of color and kinematics in gauge theories.Comment: RevTex, 4 page

    A technique for loop calculations in non-Abelian gauge theories - with application to five gluon amplitude

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    A powerful tool for calculations in non-Abelian gauge theories is obtained by combining the background field gauge, the helicity basis and the color decomposition methods. It has reproduced the one-loop calculation of the five-gluon amplitudes in QCD, is applicable to electroweak processes and extendable to two-loop calculations.Comment: Latex 22 pages, 3 figure

    The Last of the Finite Loop Amplitudes in QCD

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    We use on-shell recursion relations to determine the one-loop QCD scattering amplitudes with a massless external quark pair and an arbitrary number (n-2) of positive-helicity gluons. These amplitudes are the last of the unknown infrared- and ultraviolet-finite loop amplitudes of QCD. The recursion relations are similar to ones applied at tree level, but contain new non-trivial features corresponding to poles present for complex momentum arguments but absent for real momenta. We present the relations and the compact solutions to them, valid for all n. We also present compact forms for the previously-computed one-loop n-gluon amplitudes with a single negative helicity and the rest positive helicity.Comment: 45 pages, revtex, 7 figures, v2 minor correction
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