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We present a prescription for computing tree-level scattering amplitudes in 10D super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory using the pure spinor worldline formalism. The pure spinor formalism has proven to be a powerful framework for studying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Max Guillen , Marcelo dos Santos , Eggon Viana

We incorporate all gauge-invariant local composite operators into the twistor-space formulation of N=4 SYM theory, detailing and expanding on ideas we presented recently in arXiv:1603.04471. The vertices for these operators contain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-01 Laura Koster , Vladimir Mitev , Matthias Staudacher , Matthias Wilhelm

In this paper, we study the tree amplitudes with gluons coupled to gravitons. We first study the relations among the mixed amplitudes. With BCFW on-shell recursion relation, we will show the color-order reversed relation, $U(1)$-decoupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 Yi-Xin Chen , Yi-Jian Du , Bo Feng

We review generalized unitarity as a means for obtaining loop amplitudes from on-shell tree amplitudes. The method is generally applicable to both supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric amplitudes, including non-planar contributions. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Zvi Bern , Yu-tin Huang

We compute tree-level $n$-point scattering amplitudes in scalar field theories in terms of geometric invariants on a fibre bundle. All 0- and 2-derivative interactions are incorporated into a metric on this bundle. The on-shell amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 Mohammad Alminawi , Ilaria Brivio , Joe Davighi

It is well-known that the standard BCFW construction cannot be used for on-shell amplitudes in effective field theories due to bad behavior for large shifts. We show how to solve this problem in the case of the SU(N) non-linear sigma model,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-10 Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Jaroslav Trnka

The existence of universal soft limits for gauge-theory and gravity amplitudes has been known for a long time. The properties of the soft limits have been exploited in numerous ways; in particular for relating an n-point amplitude to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Camille Boucher-Veronneau , Andrew J. Larkoski

We discuss the soft behaviour of open string amplitudes with gluons and massive states in any dimension. Notwithstanding non-minimal couplings of massive higher spin states to gluons, relying on OPE and factorization, we argue that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Massimo Bianchi , Andrea L. Guerrieri

Over the past year, the "scalar-scaffolding" formalism has revealed a number of new features of gluon amplitudes. In this paper, we leverage these developments to study two distinct but related questions, linked by the scaffolding statement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Jeffrey V. Backus , Carolina Figueiredo

We investigate the tree level multi-gluon components of the gluon light cone wavefunctions in the light cone gauge keeping the exact kinematics of the gluon emissions. We focus on the components with all helicities identical to the helicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-24 Christian A. Cruz-Santiago

In this paper, we extend the method proposed in \cite{Arkani-Hamed:2024fyd} for deriving soft theorems of amplitudes, which relies exclusively on factorization properties including conventional factorizations on physical poles, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou

In this paper, we present a systematic derivation aimed at obtaining general expressions for on-shell recursion relations for tree-level open string amplitudes. Our approach involves applying the BCFW shift to an open string amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Pongwit Srisangyingcharoen

We extend the recently established Mellin correspondence of supergravity and superstring amplitudes to the case of arbitrary helicity configurations. The amplitudes are discussed in the framework of Grassmannian varieties. We generalize…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-11 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

We present the full two-loop four-graviton amplitudes in N=4,5,6 supergravity. These results were obtained using the double-copy structure of gravity, which follows from the recently conjectured color-kinematics duality in gauge theory. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 C. Boucher-Veronneau , L. J. Dixon

We investigate the construction of tree-level MHV gluon amplitudes in multiplet bases using BCFW recursion. The multiplet basis decomposition can either be obtained by decomposing results derived in (for example) the DDM basis or by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-06 Yi-Jian Du , Malin Sjodahl , Johan Thoren

We propose a dual formulation for the S Matrix of N = 4 SYM. The dual provides a basis for the "leading singularities" of scattering amplitudes to all orders in perturbation theory, which are sharply defined, IR safe data that uniquely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-22 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Freddy Cachazo , Clifford Cheung , Jared Kaplan

The BCFW recursion relation allows to find out the tree-level scattering amplitudes for gluons and tensor gauge bosons in generalized Yang-Mills theory. We demonstrate that the corresponding MHV amplitudes for the tensor gauge bosons of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-07 Ignatios Antoniadis , George Savvidy

We evaluate in great detail one-loop four-graviton field theory amplitudes in pure N=4 D=4 supergravity. The expressions are obtained by taking the field theory limits of (4,0) and (2,2) space-time supersymmetric string theory models. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Piotr Tourkine , Pierre Vanhove

We present exact tree-order amplitudes for $H^* \to n~H$, for final states containing one or two particles with non-zero three-momentum, for various interaction potentials. We show that there are potentials leading to tree amplitudes that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 E. N. Argyres , C. G. Papadopoulos , R. Kleiss

We present a systematic method to extract the entire tree-level S-matrix on the Coulomb branch of N=4 SYM from soft-scalar limits of on-shell amplitudes at the origin of moduli space. Massive amplitudes in the spontaneously-broken theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-27 Michael Kiermaier