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We study scattering equations and formulas for tree amplitudes of various theories in four dimensions, in terms of spinor helicity variables and on-shell superspace for supersymmetric theories. As originally obtained in Witten's twistor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-15 Song He , Zhengwen Liu , Jun-Bao Wu

We identify a large class of one-loop amplitudes for massless particles that can be constructed via unitarity from tree amplitudes, without any ambiguities. One-loop amplitudes for massless supersymmetric gauge theories fall into this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. C. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

We calculate on-shell scattering amplitudes involving fermions at the tree level in open superstring field theory. We confirm that four-point and five-point amplitudes in the world-sheet path integral with the standard prescription using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-05 Hiroshi Kunitomo , Yuji Okawa , Hiroki Sukeno , Tomoyuki Takezaki

We consider heavy quark and antiquark off-shell spinorial currents with emission of an arbitrary number of gluons of positive helicity. From this results we calculate the corresponding on-shell scattering amplitude and the quark-antiquark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-13 German Rodrigo

It is well-known that perturbative calculations in field theory can lead to far simpler answers than the Feynman diagram approach might suggest. In some cases scattering amplitudes can be constructed for processes with any desired number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-10-31 James Bedford

In this article we review, for a mathematical audience, the computation of (tree-level) scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory in detail, in order to bridge the gap in understanding of the subject between mathematicians and physicists.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-25 Shounak De , Dmitrii Pavlov , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We establish an efficient polynomial-complexity algorithm for one-loop calculations, based on generalized $D$-dimensional unitarity. It allows automated computations of both cut-constructible {\it and} rational parts of one-loop scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 Walter T. Giele , Zoltan Kunszt , Kirill Melnikov

The fundamental BCJ-relation is a linear relation between primitive tree amplitudes with different cyclic orderings. The cyclic orderings differ by the insertion place of one gluon. The coefficients of the fundamental BCJ-relation are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-09 Leonardo de la Cruz , Alexander Kniss , Stefan Weinzierl

Techniques based upon the string organisation of amplitudes may be used to simplify field theory calculations. We apply these techniques to perturbative gravity and calculate all one-loop amplitudes for four-graviton scattering with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 David C. Dunbar , Paul S. Norridge

In this paper, we study the newly discovered universal splitting behavior for tree-level scattering amplitudes of particles and strings~\cite{Cao:2024gln}: when a set of Mandelstam variables (and Lorentz products involving polarizations for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-15 Qu Cao , Jin Dong , Song He , Canxin Shi , Fanky Zhu

We explicitly compute the tree-level on-shell four-graviton amplitudes in four, five and six dimensions for local and weakly nonlocal gravitational theories that are quadratic in both, the Ricci and scalar curvature with form factors of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Pietro Donà , Stefano Giaccari , Leonardo Modesto , Leslaw Rachwal , Yiwei Zhu

I describe some recent developments in the understanding of gluon scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory in the large-N_c limit. These amplitudes can be computed to high orders in the weak coupling expansion, and also now at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-07 Lance J. Dixon

The structure of tree-level scattering amplitudes for collinear massless bosons is studied beyond their leading splitting function behavior. These near-collinear limits at sub-leading order are best studied using the Cachazo-He-Yuan (CHY)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Dhritiman Nandan , Jan Plefka , Wadim Wormsbecher

At small momentum transfer, the quark-gluon scattering cross section d{\sigma}/dt has a power-law divergence in the backward scattering region where the outgoing quark is nearly collinear to the incoming gluon. In this Regge limit |t|<< s,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Arindam Bhattacharya , Aneesh V. Manohar , Matthew D. Schwartz

This thesis describes some of the recent (and some less recent) developments in calculational techniques for scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory. The focus is on on-shell recursion relations in complex momenta and on the use of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-04-22 Kasper Risager

We elaborate on the radiative behaviour of tree-level scattering amplitudes in the soft regime. We show that the sub-leading soft term in single-gluon emission of quark-gluon amplitudes in QCD is controlled by differential operators, whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Hui Luo , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , William J. Torres Bobadilla

$s$-channel discontinuity of quark-quark scattering amplitude with gluon quantum numbers in the $t$ channel and negative signature is calculated in the Regge kinematical region in the two-loop approximation. Using this discontinuity and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 V. S. Fadin , R. Fiore , A. Quartarolo

We study three-gluon scattering amplitudes in global de Sitter spacetime, in the angular momentum basis of SO(1,4) symmetry representations. At the tree level, they are determined by the intertwiner integrals of harmonic one-forms on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

In this article a first step is made towards the extension of Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten (BCFW) tree level on-shell recursion relations to integrands and integrals of scattering amplitudes to arbitrary loop order. Surprisingly, it is shown…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-30 Rutger H. Boels

The efficient computation of color-summed QCD amplitudes at high parton multiplicities remains a central challenge for precision collider predictions. Existing approaches using trace, color-flow, or adjoint bases suffer from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-31 Oskar Bolinder , Rikkert Frederix , Malin Sjodahl