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We evaluate the one-loop four-graviton scattering amplitude in type-II superstring theory exactly in $\alpha'$. This result is achieved by combining physical insights into the $i\varepsilon$ prescription in string theory with a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Marco Maria Baccianti , Lorenz Eberhardt , Sebastian Mizera

We compute directly in covariant formalism various four point massive scalar amplitudes in bosonic string with scalars up to level 11. The most ``difficult'' amplitude we consider is four identical scalars at level 4, i.e. the first non…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 Igor Pesando

We present a description for amplitude diagrams in maximal supergravities obtained by dimensional reduction from D=11, derived from a field theory point of view using the pure spinor formalism. The advantages of this approach are the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Martin Cederwall , Anna Karlsson

We compute the anomalous two-loop four-point amplitudes in N=4 pure supergravity, using unitarity and the double-copy construction. We also present all terms determined by four-dimensional cuts in two all-multiplicity two-loop anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-07 Zvi Bern , David Kosower , Julio Parra-Martinez

We find explicit expression for the one-loop four-graviton amplitude in eleven-dimensional supergravity compactified on a circle. Represented in terms of the string coupling (related to the compactification radius) it takes the form of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 J. Russo , A. A. Tseytlin

We study in detail the factorization of the newly obtained two-loop four-particle amplitude in superstring theory. In particular some missing factors from the scalar correlators are obtained correctly, in comparing with a previous study of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhi-Guang Xiao , Chuan-Jie Zhu

The tree-level amplitude of six massless open strings is computed using the pure spinor formalism. The OPE poles among integrated and unintegrated vertices can be efficiently organized according to the cohomology of pure spinor superspace.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer , Stephan Stieberger , Dimitrios Tsimpis

We evaluate closed string disk amplitudes in the pure spinor formalism. We focus on low point functions (two- and one-point functions) but our analysis is also relevant for higher n-point functions. Amongst others we discuss issues arising…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-27 Andreas Bischof , Michael Haack

In this paper the pure spinor formalism is used to obtain a compact expression for the superstring N-point disk amplitude. The color ordered string amplitude is given by a sum over (N-3)! super Yang-Mills subamplitudes multiplied by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-15 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer , Stephan Stieberger

In this final part of a series of three papers, we will assemble supersymmetric expressions for one-loop correlators in pure-spinor superspace that are BRST invariant, local, and single valued. A key driving force in this construction is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-11 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

Massless type IIB superstring amplitudes are organized according to the number of external states and their ${\mathrm U}(1)$ charge under the R-symmetry of type IIB supergravity. In this work, we analyze the low-energy expansion of one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Emiel Claasen , Mehregan Doroudiani

The pure spinor formalism for the superstring has the advantage over the more conventional Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz formalism of being manifestly spacetime supersymmetric, which simplifies the computation of multiparticle and multiloop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-06 Nathan Berkovits , Carlos R. Mafra

Multi-loop interaction amplitudes in the theory of the closed, oriented superstrings are obtained by the integration of local amplitudes which are represented by a sum of the spinning string local amplitudes. The last local amplitudes are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-15 G. S. Danilov

Multi-loop superstring amplitude are calculated in the convenient gauge where Grassmann moduli are carried by the 2D gravitino field. Generally, instead of the modular symmetry, the amplitudes hold the symmetry under modular transformations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-15 G. S. Danilov

As a check of the first massive integrated vertex operator in the pure spinor formalism constructed in arXiv:1802.04486, we compute the one loop 2-point function of the stable non-BPS massive states in SO(32) heterotic string theory. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-13 Sitender Pratap Kashyap , Mritunjay Verma

Processes involving electroweak vector bosons in association with jets are crucial for precision studies of the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider. Accurate predictions for the process $pp\rightarrow V(\rightarrow\bar\ell\ell)jj$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-25 Giuseppe De Laurentis

We compute the disk amplitude of three closed strings in the pure spinor formalism. Among others, this amplitude probes tree-level gravitational interactions in the presence of Dp-branes. After disentangling holomorphic and anti-holomorphic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Andreas Bischof , Michael Haack , Stephan Stieberger

The SO(32) heterotic superstring on a Calabi-Yau manifold can spontaneously break supersymmetry at one-loop order even when it is unbroken at tree-level. It is known that calculating the supersymmetry-breaking effects in this model gives a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Nathan Berkovits , Edward Witten

The one-loop four-graviton amplitude in either of the type II superstring theories is expanded in powers of the external momenta up to and including terms of order s^4 log s R^4, where R^4 denotes a specific contraction of four linearized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael B. Green , Pierre Vanhove

We calculate the bosonic string one-loop three- and four-point amplitudes to quadradic order in momentum, and we read off the one-loop low-energy two-derivative effective action for the massless fields, $S_{eff}$. Treating the renormalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-26 Sabine Harribey , Dimitrios Tsimpis