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Recently a new recursion relation for tree-level gluon amplitudes in gauge theory has been discovered. We solve this recursion to obtain explicit formulas for the closed set of amplitudes with arbitrarily many positive and negative helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Radu Roiban , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Pure Yang-Mills amplitudes with all external gluons carrying positive helicity, known as all-plus amplitudes, have an especially simple structure. The tree amplitudes vanish and, up to at least two loops, the loop-level amplitudes are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-21 Gustav Mogull

Single-minus tree-level $n$-graviton scattering amplitudes are revisited. Often presumed to vanish, they are shown here to be nonvanishing for certain "half-collinear" configurations existing in Klein space or for complexified momenta. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Alfredo Guevara , Alexandru Lupsasca , David Skinner , Andrew Strominger , Kevin Weil

We present a geometric derivation of all-multiplicity (single-trace) tree-level Einstein Yang-Mills (EYM) amplitudes ${\cal A}(n;r)$ involving $n$ gluons and $r$ gravitons by a bilinear of two twisted differential forms on the moduli space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Pouria Mazloumi , Stephan Stieberger

In this article actions for N=4 SYM and N=8 supergravity are formulated in terms of a chiral superfield, which contains only the physical degrees of freedom of either theory. In these new actions, which originate from the lightcone…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-29 Johannes Broedel , Renata Kallosh

It has been recently conjectured that scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills are given by the volume of the (dual) amplituhedron. In this paper we show some interesting connections between the tree-level amplituhedron and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Andrea Orta , Matteo Parisi

We discuss what predictions can be made for one-loop superamplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory by using anomalous dual conformal symmetry. We show that the anomaly coefficient is a specific combination of two-mass hard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Gabriele Travaglini

We compute two infinite series of tree-level amplitudes with a massive scalar pair and an arbitrary number of gluons. We provide results for amplitudes where all gluons have identical helicity, and amplitudes with one gluon of opposite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

In the gauge-theoretic formulation of gravity the cubic vertex becomes simple enough for some graviton scattering amplitudes to be computed using Berends-Giele-type recursion relations. We present such a computation for the current with all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-05 Gianluca Delfino , Kirill Krasnov , Carlos Scarinci

We bootstrap loop corrections to AdS${}_5$ supergravity amplitudes by enforcing the consistency of the known classical results with the operator product expansion of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. In particular this yields much…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 F. Aprile , J. M. Drummond , P. Heslop , H. Paul

Tree level scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory are almost, but not exactly invariant under the free action of the N=4 superconformal algebra. What causes the non-invariance is the holomorphic anomaly at poles where external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Till Bargheer , Niklas Beisert , Wellington Galleas , Florian Loebbert , Tristan McLoughlin

We show that the single trace heterotic N-point tree-level gauge amplitude A_HET can be obtained from the corresponding type I amplitude A_I by the single-valued (sv) projection: A_HET=sv(A_I). This projection maps multiple zeta values to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

In this contribution we describe computational tools that permit the evaluation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes in N=8 supergravity, in terms of amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We also discuss the remarkable ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Lance Dixon , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban

In this paper, we generalize the Nguyen-Spradlin-Volovich-Wen (NSVW) tree formula from the MHV sector to any helicity sector. We find a close connection between the Permutohedron and the KLT relation, and construct a non-trivial mapping…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Qu Cao , Liang Zhang

We present the complete integrands of five-point superamplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory and N=8 supergravity, at one and two loops, for four-dimensional external states and D-dimensional internal kinematics. For N=4 super-Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-18 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Henrik Johansson

The simplicity and hidden symmetries of (Super) Yang-Mills and (Super)Gravity scattering amplitudes suggest the existence of a "weak-weak" dual formulation in which these structures are made manifest at the expense of manifest locality. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Freddy Cachazo , Clifford Cheung , Jared Kaplan

By analogy with the formula for the massless string disk amplitudes, we define massive field-theory tree amplitudes and conjecture that the BRST cohomology structure of pure spinor superspace fixes their form. We give evidence by deriving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-17 Carlos R. Mafra

Recently it has been shown that in gauge theories amplitudes to any perturbation order can be obtained by glueing together simple three-point on-shell amplitudes. These three-point amplitudes in turn are fixed by locality and Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-04 M. Maniatis

Berends and Giele derived the Parke-Taylor formula for Yang-Mills MHV amplitudes by computing Berends-Giele currents involving gluons of all-plus and all-but-one-plus helicities. Remarkably, the all-plus current already encodes much of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-21 Chanon Hasuwannakit , Kirill Krasnov

We show that the Mellin transform of an $n$-point tree level MHV gluon scattering amplitude, also known as the celestial amplitude in pure Yang-Mills theory, satisfies a system of $(n-2)$ linear first order partial differential equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh