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The construction of amplitudes on curved space-times is a major challenge, particularly when the background has non-constant curvature. We give formulae for all tree-level graviton scattering amplitudes in curved self-dual radiative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-11 Tim Adamo , Lionel Mason , Atul Sharma

The simplicity and hidden symmetries of (Super) Yang-Mills and (Super)Gravity scattering amplitudes suggest the existence of a "weak-weak" dual formulation in which these structures are made manifest at the expense of manifest locality. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Freddy Cachazo , Clifford Cheung , Jared Kaplan

We display the vertex operators for all states in the conformal supergravity sector of the twistor string, as outlined by Berkovits and Witten. These include `dipole' states, which are pairs of supergravitons that do not diagonalize the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-19 Louise Dolan , Jay N. Ihry

Scattering amplitudes of gluons coupled with a pair of massive scalars, so-called massive scalar amplitudes, provide the simplest yet physically useful examples of massive amplitudes. In this paper we construct an S-matrix functional for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Yasuhiro Abe

Recently we discussed how Einstein supergravity tree amplitudes might be obtained from the original Witten and Berkovits twistor-string theory when external conformal gravitons are restricted to be Einstein gravitons. Here we obtain a more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Tim Adamo , Lionel Mason

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 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

Motivated by potential applications to holography on space-times of positive curvature, and by the successful twistor description of scattering amplitudes, we propose a new dual matrix formulation of N = 4 gauge theory on S(4). The matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Jonathan J. Heckman , Herman Verlinde

Twistor ideas have led to a number of recent advances in our understanding of scattering amplitudes. Much of this work has been indirect, determining the twistor space support of scattering amplitudes by examining the amplitudes in momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Lionel Mason , David Skinner

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 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 explore the space of meromorphic amplitudes with extra constraints coming from the shape of the leading Regge trajectory. This information comes in two guises: it bounds the maximal spin of exchanged particles of a given mass; it leads…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-28 Kelian Häring , Alexander Zhiboedov

The tree-level S-matrix of type II supergravity can be computed in scattering equation form by correlators in a worldsheet theory analogous to a chiral, infinite tension limit of the pure spinor formalism. By defining a non-minimal version…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-01 Tim Adamo , Eduardo Casali

Inspired by the idea of viewing amplitudes in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM as differential forms on momentum twistor space, we introduce differential forms on the space of spinor variables, which combine helicity amplitudes in any four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Song He , Chi Zhang

We present a new method, exact in $\alpha'$, to explicitly compute string tree-level amplitudes involving one massive state and any number of massless ones. This construction relies on the so-called twisted heterotic string, which admits…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Max Guillen , Henrik Johansson , Renann Lipinski Jusinskas , Oliver Schlotterer

We extend the recently established Mellin correspondence of supergravity and superstring amplitudes to the case of arbitrary helicity configurations. The amplitudes are discussed in the framework of Grassmannian varieties. We generalize…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-11 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

We use the embedding of Einstein gravity with cosmological constant into conformal gravity as a basis for using the twistor action for conformal gravity to obtain MHV scattering amplitudes not just for conformal gravity, but also for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Tim Adamo , Lionel Mason

Arkani-Hamed, Cachazo, Cheung and Kaplan have proposed a Grassmannian formulation for the S-matrix of N=4 Yang-Mills as an integral over link variables. In parallel work, the connected prescription for computing tree amplitudes in Witten's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Dhritiman Nandan , Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen

We present a complete computation of superstring scattering amplitudes at tree level, for the case of Neveu-Schwarz insertions. Mathematically, this is to say that we determine explicitly the superstring measure on the moduli space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-15 Sergio Luigi Cacciatori , Samuel Grushevsky , Alexander A. Voronov

This paper presents a worldsheet theory describing holomorphic maps to twistor space with N fermionic directions. The theory is anomaly free when N=8. Via the Penrose transform, the vertex operators correspond to an N=8 Einstein…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-08 David Skinner