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We present a method to compute the integrands of one-loop Einstein-Yang-Mills amplitudes for any number of external gauge and gravity multiplets. Our construction relies on the double-copy structure of Einstein-Yang-Mills as (super-)Yang-Mills with the so-called YM+ϕ3 theory — pure Yang-Mills coupled to bi-adjoint scalars — which we implement via one-loop Cachazo-He-Yuan formulae. The YM+ϕ3 building blocks are obtained from forward limits of tree-level input in external gluons and scalars, and we give the composition rules for any number of traces and orders in the couplings g and κ. On the one hand, we spell out supersymmetry- and dimension-agnostic relations that reduce loop integrands of Einstein-Yang-Mills to those of pure gauge theories. On the other hand, we present four-point results for maximal and half-maximal supersymmetry where all supersymmetry cancellations are exposed. In the half-maximal case, we determine six-dimensional anomalies due to chiral hypermultiplets in the loop.
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Porkert, F., Schlotterer, O. One-loop amplitudes in Einstein-Yang-Mills from forward limits. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 122 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2023)122
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