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We use the twistor-string theory on the B-model of CP^{3|4} to compute the maximally helicity violating(MHV) tree amplitudes for conformal supergravitons. The correlator of a bilinear in the affine Kac-Moody current(Sugawara stress-energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Changhyun Ahn

We explicitly compute the tree-level on-shell four-graviton amplitudes in four, five and six dimensions for local and weakly nonlocal gravitational theories that are quadratic in both, the Ricci and scalar curvature with form factors of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Pietro Donà , Stefano Giaccari , Leonardo Modesto , Leslaw Rachwal , Yiwei Zhu

This article proves the cyclicity of anti-NMHV and N$^2$MHV tree amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM up to any number of external particles as an interesting application of positive Grassmannian geometry. In this proof the two-fold simplex-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-23 Junjie Rao

Motivated by the success of Hodges' momentum twistor variables in planar Yang-Mills, in this note we introduce a set of new variables, the S variables, which are tailored for gravity (or more generally for theories without color ordering).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-02 Yuxiang Gu

We study the relationship between the momentum twistor MHV vertex expansion of planar amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills and the all-loop generalization of the BCFW recursion relations. We demonstrate explicitly in several examples that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Song He , Tristan McLoughlin

We extend the twistor string theory inspired formalism introduced in hep-th/0407214 for calculating loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory to the case of N=1 (and N=2) super Yang-Mills. Our approach yields a novel representation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 James Bedford , Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

We investigate MHV tree-level gravity amplitudes as defined on the spinor-helicity variety. Unlike their gluon counterparts, the gravity amplitudes do not have logarithmic singularities and do not admit Amplituhedron-like construction.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Joris Koefler , Umut Oktem , Shruti Paranjape , Jaroslav Trnka , Bailee Zacovic

As an alternative to the usual Feynman graphs, tree amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory can be constructed from tree graphs in which the vertices are tree level MHV scattering amplitudes, continued off shell in a particular fashion. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Freddy Cachazo , Peter Svrcek , Edward Witten

The conjectured duality relating all-loop leading singularities of n-particle N^(k-2)MHV scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM to a simple contour integral over the Grassmannian G(k,n) makes all the symmetries of the theory manifest. Every…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Jaroslav Trnka

We develop a manifestly supersymmetric version of the generalized unitarity cut method for calculating scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory. We illustrate the power of this method by computing the one-loop n-point NMHV super-amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 J. M. Drummond , J. Henn , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We propose a new formulation of the complete tree-level S-matrix of N = 8 supergravity. The new formula for n particles in the k R-charge sector is an integral over the Grassmannian G(2,n) and uses the Veronese map into G(k,n). The image of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-29 Freddy Cachazo , Yvonne Geyer

The maximally helicity violating (MHV) tree level scattering amplitudes involving three, four or five gravitons are worked out in Unimodular Gravity. They are found to coincide with the corresponding amplitudes in General Relativity. This a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-15 Enrique Alvarez , Sergio Gonzalez-Martin , Carmelo P. Martin

The technology required for eikonal scattering amplitude calculations in Matrix theory is developed. Using the entire supersymmetric completion of the v^4/r^7 Matrix theory potential we compute the graviton-graviton scattering amplitude and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Jan C. Plefka , Marco Serone , Andrew K. Waldron

In arXiv:2008.04330 it was shown that supertranslation and $\overline{SL(2,\mathbb C)}$ current algebra symmetries, corresponding to leading and subleading soft graviton theorems, are enough to determine the tree level MHV graviton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh , Sai Satyam Samal

In this note we continue the exploration of the polytope picture for scattering amplitudes, where amplitudes are associated with the volumes of polytopes in generalized momentum-twistor spaces. After a quick warm-up example illustrating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Andrew Hodges , Jaroslav Trnka

We reformulate the twistor construction for hyper- and quaternion-K\"ahler manifolds, introducing new sigma models that compute scalar potentials for the geometry. These sigma models have the twistor space of the quaternionic manifold as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-14 Tim Adamo , Lionel Mason , Atul Sharma

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

Results for four-, five-, and six-parton tree amplitudes for massive quark-antiquark scattering with gluons are calculated using the recursion relations of Britto, Cachazo, Feng, and Witten. The required diagrams are generated using shifts…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Anthony Hall

We present a supersymmetric generalization of the MHV vertex expansion for all tree amplitudes in N=4 SYM theory. In addition to the choice of a reference spinor, this super MHV vertex expansion also depends on four reference Grassmann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-29 Michael Kiermaier , Stephen G. Naculich

We give an explicit formula for all tree amplitudes in N=4 SYM, derived by solving the recently presented supersymmetric tree-level recursion relations. The result is given in a compact, manifestly supersymmetric form and we show how to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 J. M. Drummond , J. M. Henn