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We present and prove a formula for the MHV scattering amplitude of n gravitons at tree level. Some of the more interesting features of the formula, which set it apart as being significantly different from many more familiar formulas,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Dung Nguyen , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen

We show that on-shell recursion relations hold for tree amplitudes in generic two derivative theories of multiple particle species and diverse spins. For example, in a gauge theory coupled to scalars and fermions, any amplitude with at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Clifford Cheung

Two new formulas which express n-graviton MHV tree amplitudes in terms of sums of squares of n-gluon amplitudes are discussed. The first formula is derived from recursion relations. The second formula, simpler because it involves fewer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-19 Henriette Elvang , Daniel Z. Freedman

Recently, twistor-like formulations of tree amplitudes involving $n$ massless particles have been proposed for various 6D supersymmetric theories. The formulas are based on two different forms of the scattering equations: one based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 John H. Schwarz , Congkao Wen

In this paper, we give the general expressions for a special series of tree amplitudes of the Yang-Mills theory. This series of amplitudes have two adjacent massless spin-1 particles with extra-dimensional momenta and any number of positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-08 Yang An , Yi Li

We recast the action of pure gravity into a form that is invariant under a twofold Lorentz symmetry. To derive this representation, we construct a general parameterization of all theories equivalent to the Einstein-Hilbert action up to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-31 Clifford Cheung , Grant N. Remmen

In this paper, we generalize the Nguyen-Spradlin-Volovich-Wen (NSVW) tree formula from the MHV sector to any helicity sector. We find a close connection between the Permutohedron and the KLT relation, and construct a non-trivial mapping…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Qu Cao , Liang Zhang

We derive general tree-level recursion relations for amplitudes which include massive propagating particles. As an illustration, we apply these recursion relations to scattering amplitudes of gluons coupled to massive scalars. We provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Badger , E. W. N. Glover , V. V. Khoze , P. Svrcek

We demonstrate that QCD gluon amplitudes can be used to construct a Lagrangian for gravity. This procedure makes use of perturbative `squaring' relations between gravity and gauge theory that follow from string theory. We explicitly carry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. Bern , A. K. Grant

In this note, we prove that the recent proposal for the tree-level n-particle N=8 supergravity amplitudes by Cachazo and Geyer satisfies parity symmetry and soft limit behavior expected for graviton scattering amplitudes.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-28 Brenda Penante , Sayeh Rajabi , Grigory Sizov

We review two novel techniques used to calculate tree-level scattering amplitudes efficiently: MHV diagrams, and on-shell recursion relations. For the MHV diagrams, we consider applications to tree-level amplitudes and focus in particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

The recent progress in computing gauge theory amplitudes can be extended, in many cases, to theories incorporating gravity. This has improved our understanding of the perturbative expansion of N=8 supergravity supporting the ``no-triangle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-11 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , David C. Dunbar , Harald Ita

We use the recently developed massive spinor-helicity formalism [1] of Arkani- Hamed et al. to propose a new class of recursion relations for tree-level amplitudes in gauge theories. These relations are based on a combined complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-13 Sourav Ballav , Arkajyoti Manna

We derive an on-shell diagram recursion for tree-level scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=7$ supergravity. The diagrams are evaluated in terms of Grassmannian integrals and momentum twistors, generalising previous results of Hodges in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Connor Armstrong , Joseph A. Farrow , Arthur E. Lipstein

In the formulation of Cachazo, He, and Yuan, tree-level amplitudes for massless particles in gauge theory and gravity can be expressed as rational functions of the Lorentz invariants $k_a \cdot k_b$, $\epsilon_a \cdot k_b$, and $\epsilon_a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Stephen G. Naculich

We reformulate MHV scattering amplitudes in 4D gauge theory and supergravity as correlation functions of bilinear operators in a supersymmetric gaussian matrix model. The model retains the symmetries of an S(4) of radius L and the matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-05 Jonathan J. Heckman , Herman Verlinde

We review recent progress in computations of amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity. We compare the perturbative expansion of amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills and N=8 supergravity and discuss surprising similarities.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , David C. Dunbar , Harald Ita

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

We present a particularly nice D-dimensional graph-based representation of the full color-dressed five-point tree-level gluon amplitude. It possesses the following virtues: 1) it satisfies the color-kinematic correspondence, and thus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-12 Johannes Broedel , John Joseph M. Carrasco

A dual formulation of the S Matrix for N=4 SYM has recently been presented, where all leading singularities of n-particle N^{k-2}MHV amplitudes are given as an integral over the Grassmannian G(k,n), with cyclic symmetry, parity and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Freddy Cachazo , Clifford Cheung