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This thesis explores the use of analytic techniques for calculating pure Yang–Mills amplitudes. The main focus is on deriving two-loop amplitudes, representing the forefront of current efforts, using the methods of four-dimensional unitarity and augmented recursion. To this end, the two-loop all-plu...

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Published: Swansea, Wales, UK 2023
Institution: Swansea University
Degree level: Doctoral
Degree name: Ph.D
Supervisor: Perkins, Warren B.
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63485
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description This thesis explores the use of analytic techniques for calculating pure Yang–Mills amplitudes. The main focus is on deriving two-loop amplitudes, representing the forefront of current efforts, using the methods of four-dimensional unitarity and augmented recursion. To this end, the two-loop all-plus helicity amplitudes are presented in full colour, for six and seven gluons. Results are analytic, compact expressions with manifest symmetries. A detailed discussion of augmented recursion is presented, including an algorithmic way to determine the required off-shell currents. Wider issues of the reduction of analytic results to simpler forms are also discussed, with various examples considered over one and two loops.
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