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We bound EFT coefficients appearing in $2 \to 2$ photon scattering amplitudes in four dimensions. After reviewing unitarity and positivity conditions in this context, we use dispersion relations and crossing symmetry to compute sum rules…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-27 Johan Henriksson , Brian McPeak , Francesco Russo , Alessandro Vichi

The simplification and reorganization of complex expressions lies at the core of scientific progress, particularly in theoretical high-energy physics. This work explores the application of machine learning to a particular facet of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-05 Clifford Cheung , Aurélien Dersy , Matthew D. Schwartz

We present a new method for computing multi-loop scattering amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory. It extends the Generalized Unitarity method by constraining not only the integrand of the amplitude but also its full integrated form. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Piotr Bargiela

The effective amplitudes for gluon momentum p<<gT in hot QCD exhibit damping as a result of collisions. The whole set of n-point amplitudes is shown to be generated from one functional K(x,y;A), in addition to the induced current j(x;A).

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Guerin

In this note we consider minimal surfaces in three dimensional anti-de Sitter space that end at the AdS boundary on a polygon given by a sequence of null segments. The problem can be reduced to a certain generalized Sinh-Gordon equation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-20 Luis F. Alday , Juan Maldacena

We investigate n-gluon scattering amplitudes in the multi-Regge region of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling. Through a careful analysis of the thermodynamic bubble ansatz (TBA) for surfaces in AdS5 with n-g(lu)on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-08 J. Bartels , V. Schomerus , M. Sprenger

We consider the gravitational scattering of point particles in four dimensions, at Planckian centre of mass energy and low momentum transfer, or the eikonal approximation. The scattering amplitude can be exactly computed by modelling point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Saurya Das , Arundhati Dasgupta , P. Ramadevi , Tapobrata Sarkar

We present a powerful new approach to compute tree-level higher-point holographic correlators. Our method only exploits the flat-space limit, where we point out a novel and important simplification, and factorization of amplitudes in AdS.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-09 Luis F. Alday , Vasco Gonçalves , Maria Nocchi , Xinan Zhou

In this work, we extend the study of soft limits to (Anti) de Sitter spaces, investigating the analytic structure of holographic gluon correlators as part of a broader effort to reveal new symmetries and fundamental structures in gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-22 Soner Albayrak , Savan Kharel

We show how generalised unitarity cuts in D = 4 - 2 epsilon dimensions can be used to calculate efficiently complete one-loop scattering amplitudes in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This approach naturally generates the rational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Simon McNamara , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

We describe a general algorithm for the computation of the remainder function for n-gluon scattering in multi-Regge kinematics for strongly coupled planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. This regime is accessible through the infrared physics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-12 J. Bartels , V. Schomerus , M. Sprenger

Four point functions of general N=4 1/2-BPS primary fields, satisfying the next-next-to-extremality condition \Delta_{1}+\Delta_{2}+\Delta_{3}-\Delta_{4}=4 are studied at large N and strong coupling. We apply new techniques to evaluate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Linda I. Uruchurtu

We show how to calculate the one-loop scattering amplitude with all gluons of negative helicity in non-supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory using MHV diagrams. We argue that the amplitude with all positive helicity gluons arises from a Jacobian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

Both 3- and 4-point scattering amplitudes for spin-1 massless particles (gluons) and spin-2 massless particles (gravitons) are reviewed through self-contained step-by-step derivation. Gluon and graviton interactions are computed from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-12 Abhilash Mathews

We explore the space of consistent three-particle couplings in $\mathbb Z_2$-symmetric two-dimensional QFTs using two first-principles approaches. Our first approach relies solely on unitarity, analyticity and crossing symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Alexandre Homrich , Joao Penedones , Jonathan Toledo , Balt C. van Rees , Pedro Vieira

At tree-level, scattering amplitudes involving only gluons or gravitons are unaffected by supersymmetry, allowing them to be efficiently encoded by and extracted from those of maximally supersymmetric (N=4,8) theories. This fails beyond…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily

We consider gluons scattering in Type IIB string theory on AdS$_5\times S^5/\mathbb{Z}_2$ in the presence of D7 branes, which is dual to the flavor multiplet correlator in a certain 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ $USp(2N)$ gauge theory with $SO(8)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-21 Connor Behan , Shai M. Chester , Pietro Ferrero

In this paper, we study the four-point celestial leaf amplitudes of massless scalar and MHV gluon scattering. These leaf amplitudes are non-distributional decompositions of the celestial amplitudes associated with a hyperbolic foliation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-21 Raju Mandal , Sagnik Misra , Partha Paul , Baishali Roy

We present novel techniques for the computation of three-loop four-parton scattering amplitudes in full color, non-planar gauge theories. We elaborate on how the analytic results for these amplitudes can be used to confirm the conjectured…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-18 Amlan Chakraborty , Giulio Gambuti

We study massless open and closed string scattering amplitudes in flat space at high energies. Similarly to the case of AdS space, we demonstrate that, under the T-duality map, the open string amplitudes are given by the exponential of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Pawel Caputa , Shinji Hirano