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The two-loop four-point amplitude of two massless SU(N) colored scalars and two color singlet operators with different virtuality described by a half-BPS and Konishi operators is calculated analytically in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We verify the ultraviolet behaviour of the unprotected composite operator and exponentiation of the infrared divergences with correct universal values of the anomalous dimensions in the modified dimensional reduction scheme. The amplitude is found to contain lower transcendental weight terms in addition to the highest ones and the latter has no similarity with similar amplitudes in QCD.
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Ahmed, T., Dhani, P.K. Two-loop doubly massive four-point amplitude involving a half-BPS and Konishi operator. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 66 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)066
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