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We show that a wide class of tree-level scattering amplitudes involving scalars, gauge bosons, and gravitons, up to three of which may be massive, can be expressed in terms of a Cachazo-He-Yuan representation as a sum over solutions of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Stephen G. Naculich

The tree-level scattering amplitudes of general relativity encode the full non-linearity of the Einstein field equations. Yet remarkably compact expressions for these amplitudes have been found which seem unrelated to a perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-02 Tim Adamo

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

This paper investigates how tree-level amplitudes with massless quarks, gluons and/or massless scalars transforming under a single copy of the gauge group can be expressed in the context of the scattering equations as a sum over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-04 Stefan Weinzierl

We provide a new set of on-shell recursion relations for tree-level scattering amplitudes, which are valid for any non-trivial theory of massless particles. In particular, we reconstruct the scattering amplitudes from (a subset of) their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Paolo Benincasa , Eduardo Conde

Using twistor space intuition, Cachazo, Svrcek and Witten presented novel diagrammatic rules for gauge-theory amplitudes, expressed in terms of maximally helicity-violating (MHV) vertices. We define non-MHV vertices, and show how to use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Bena , Z. Bern , D. A. Kosower

We present new and explicit formulae for the one-loop integrands of scattering amplitudes in non-supersymmetric gauge theory and gravity, valid for any number of particles. The results exhibit the colour-kinematics duality in gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Yvonne Geyer , Ricardo Monteiro

Recently, by using the known structure of one-loop scattering amplitudes for gluons in Yang-Mills theory, a recursion relation for tree-level scattering amplitudes has been deduced. Here, we give a short and direct proof of this recursion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Ruth Britto , Freddy Cachazo , Bo Feng , Edward Witten

The single-soft-graviton limit of any quantum gravity scattering amplitude is given at leading order by the universal Weinberg pole formula. Gauge invariance of the formula follows from global energy-momentum conservation. In this paper…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-11 Freddy Cachazo , Andrew Strominger

We study "on-shell constructibility" of tree amplitudes from recursion relations in general 4-dimensional local field theories with any type of particles, both massless and massive. Our analysis applies to renormalizable as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Timothy Cohen , Henriette Elvang , Michael Kiermaier

In this paper we study tree-level amplitudes from higher-dimensional operators, including $F^3$ operator of gauge theory, and $R^2$, $R^3$ operators of gravity, in the Cachazo-He-Yuan formulation. As a generalization of the reduced Pfaffian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Song He , Yong Zhang

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

In this thesis massive higher derivative gravity theories are analyzed in some detail. One-particle scattering amplitude between two covariantly conserved sources mediated by a graviton exchange is found at tree-level in $D$ dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-01 Ibrahim Gullu

The relationship between on-shell tree level scattering amplitudes of open and closed strings, discovered some time ago by Kawai, Lewellen and Tye, is used at field theory level (at $O(\alpha'^3)$) to establish a link between the general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr

The tree-level amplitude for the scattering of two gauge particles constrained to move on the two distinct boundaries of eleven-dimensional space-time in the Horava-Witten formulation of M-theory is constructed. At low momenta this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Tathagata Dasgupta , Matthias R. Gaberdiel , Michael B. Green

Carrollian amplitudes are scattering amplitudes of massless particles written in position space at null infinity. We study various aspects of Carrollian amplitudes for gauge theory and gravity at loop level using primarily the modified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Vijay Nenmeli , Bin Zhu

We present a compact formula for the complete tree-level S-matrix of pure Yang-Mills and gravity theories in arbitrary spacetime dimension. The new formula for the scattering of n particles is given by an integral over the position of n…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-29 Freddy Cachazo , Song He , Ellis Ye Yuan

We propose a new integral formula for all tree-level scattering amplitudes of N=6 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory. It resembles the Roiban-Spradlin-Volovich-Witten formula for N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory based on a twistor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Yu-tin Huang , Sangmin Lee

We extend the recently discovered phenomenon of hidden zeros to tree amplitudes for Yang-Mills (YM) and general relativity (GR) theories with higher-derivative interactions. This includes gluon amplitudes with a single insertion of the…

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

Dual superconformal invariance has recently emerged as a hidden symmetry of planar scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. This symmetry can be made manifest by expressing amplitudes in terms of `momentum twistors', as opposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Lionel Mason , David Skinner