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Scattering amplitudes in the high-energy limit can be described in terms of their singularity structure in the complex angular momentum plane, consisting of Regge poles and cuts. In QCD, gluon Reggeization has long been understood as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 Samuel Abreu , Giulio Falcioni , Einan Gardi , Calum Milloy , Leonardo Vernazza

There has been recent interest in understanding the all loop structure of the subleading power soft and collinear limits, with the goal of achieving a systematic resummation of subleading power infrared logarithms. Most of this work has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Ian Moult , Iain W. Stewart , Gherardo Vita , Hua Xing Zhu

We provide the last missing ingredient necessary to approximate one-loop amplitudes in QCD with massive quarks in the limit of vanishing energy of a single gluon up to terms suppressed by this energy. Our main result is a soft operator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-13 Michał Czakon , Kilian Erhard Minguez , Felix Eschment

We review recent progress in calculations of one-loop QCD amplitudes. By imposing the consistency requirements of unitarity and correct behavior as the momenta of two legs become collinear, we construct ansatze for one-loop amplitudes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

We show how calculable IR loop effects impact positivity bounds in Effective Field Theories with causal and unitary UV completions. We identify infrared singularities which appear in dispersion relations at $|t|\lesssim m^2$. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Brando Bellazzini , Marc Riembau , Francesco Riva

We study on-shell diagrams for gravity theories with any number of supersymmetries and find a compact Grassmannian formula in terms of edge variables of the graphs. Unlike in gauge theory where the analogous form involves only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Enrico Herrmann , Jaroslav Trnka

We use the infrared consistency of one-loop amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory to derive a compact analytic formula for a tree-level NNMHV gluon scattering amplitude in QCD, the first such formula known. We argue that the IR conditions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Radu Roiban , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Infrared divergences in QED and other theories with massless particles show that in such theories the $S$ matrix cannot be defined in the usual way. Typically, this is not viewed as a big problem since one is interested in cross sections,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-14 Cesar Gomez , Mischa Panchenko

The asymptotic structure of gauge theories describing fracton interactions is analyzed. Two sets of asymptotic conditions are proposed. Both encompass all known solutions, lead to finite charges and resolve the problem of the divergent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 Alfredo Pérez , Stefan Prohazka

The purpose of this paper is to further study the soft-wall AdS/QCD model with constrained IR background. By including a quartic bulk scalar potential we study various meson and nucleon spectra. This model naturally realizes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Sheng Liu , Peng Zhang

The all-loop resummation of SU$(N)$ gauge theory amplitudes is known to factorize into an IR-divergent (soft and collinear) factor and a finite (hard) piece. The divergent factor is universal, whereas the hard function is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-14 Hernán A. González , Francisco Rojas

Starting from a unitary, Lorentz invariant two-particle scattering amplitude , we show how to use an identification and replacement process to construct a unique, unitary particle-antiparticle amplitude. This process differs from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 James Lindesay , H. Pierre Noyes

This is the first in a series of papers presenting a new understanding of scattering amplitudes based on fundamentally combinatorial ideas in the kinematic space of the scattering data. We study the simplest theory of colored scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 N. Arkani-Hamed , H. Frost , G. Salvatori , P-G. Plamondon , H. Thomas

We study the Sudakov form factor and the four-point scattering amplitude on the Coulomb branch of planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM as functions of the Coulomb-branch parameters and kinematic invariants. This setup provides a controlled probe of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Luis F. Alday , Elisabetta Armanini , Andrei V. Belitsky , Kelian Häring , Alexander Zhiboedov

We consider the radiation of three soft gluons in a generic process for multiparton hard scattering in QCD. In the soft limit the corresponding scattering amplitude has a singular behaviour that is factorized and controlled by a colorful…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-06 Dimitri Colferai

We review current efficient techniques for the construction of multi-leg and multi-loop on-shell scattering amplitudes in supersymmetric gauge theories. Examples in the maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Roiban

The single particle spectral function for the normal state of underdoped high $T_c$ cuprates is studied within the slave particle framework. We find that the presence of a massless dynamical gauge field - a direct consequence of the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 Walter Rantner , Xiao-Gang Wen

Recently it has been argued that infrared singularities of the quark-gluon vertex of Landau gauge QCD can confine static quarks via a linear potential. It is demonstrated that the same mechanism also may confine fundamental scalar fields.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Reinhard Alkofer , Leonard Fister , Axel Maas , Veronika Macher

We compute the three-loop corrections to the helicity amplitudes for $q\bar{q}\to Q\bar{Q}$ scattering in massless QCD. In the Lorentz decomposition of the scattering amplitude we avoid evanescent Lorentz structures and map the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-06 Fabrizio Caola , Amlan Chakraborty , Giulio Gambuti , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

I discuss and review soft anomalous dimensions in QCD that describe soft-gluon threshold resummation for a wide range of hard-scattering processes. The factorization properties of the cross section in moment space and renormalization-group…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-05 Nikolaos Kidonakis