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We revisit gauge anomalies from the purely on-shell perspective. We argue that violation of anomaly cancellation conditions manifests as a breakdown of collinear factorization. We explicitly construct one-loop 5-point amplitudes with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-04 Edoardo Alviani , Adam Falkowski

In this paper, we provide another angle to understand recent discoveries, i.e., the hidden zeros and corresponding 2-split behavior using the BCFW recursion relation. For the hidden zeros, we show that although the BCFW recursion relation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Bo Feng , Liang Zhang , Kang Zhou

The purpose of this review is to bridge the gap between a standard course in quantum field theory and recent fascinating developments in the studies of on-shell scattering amplitudes. We build up the subject from basic quantum field theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-14 Henriette Elvang , Yu-tin Huang

We study the application of BCFW recursion relations to the QED processes $0\to e^- e^+ n \gamma$. Based on 6-point amplitudes (both MHVA and NMHVA) computed from Feynman diagrams in the Berends-Giele gauge, we conduct a comprehensive study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Ke Li , Yuxin Liu , Qi-Shu Yan , Xiaoran Zhao

Berends-Giele currents are fundamental building blocks for on-shell amplitudes in non-abelian gauge theory. We present a novel procedure to construct them using the Bern-Kosower formalism for one-loop gluon amplitudes. Applying the pinch…

We study the three-particle and four-particle scattering amplitudes for an arbitrary, finite number of massive scalars, spinors and vectors by employing the on-shell massive spinor formalism. We consider the most general three-particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-02 Da Liu , Zhewei Yin

The BCFW recursion relation allows to find out the tree-level scattering amplitudes for gluons and tensor gauge bosons in generalized Yang-Mills theory. We demonstrate that the corresponding MHV amplitudes for the tensor gauge bosons of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-07 Ignatios Antoniadis , George Savvidy

We investigate off-shell perturbative renormalisation of pure quantum gravity for both background metric and quantum fluctuations. We show that at each new loop order, the divergences that do not vanish on-shell are constructed from only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 Vlad-Mihai Mandric , Tim R. Morris , Dalius Stulga

We describe a calculation of the on-shell renormalization factors in QCD and QED at the three loop level. Explicit results for the fermion mass renormalization factor Zm and the on-shell fermion wave function renormalization constant Z2 are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kirill Melnikov , Timo van Ritbergen

Off-shell Ward identities in non-abelian gauge theory continue to be a subject of active research, since they are, in general, inhomogeneous and their form depends on the chosen gauge-fixing procedure. For the three-gluon and four-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Naser Ahmadiniaz , Christian Schubert

We explore various tree-level double copy constructions for amplitudes including massive particles with spin. By working in general dimensions, we use that particles with spins $s\leq 2$ are fundamental to argue that the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara

We present a map between the tree-level Standard Model Effective Theory (SMEFT) in the Warsaw basis and massive on-shell amplitudes. As a first step, we focus on the electroweak sector without fermions. We describe the Feynman rules for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Rafael Aoude , Camila S. Machado

It is shown how the QED concept of a gauge-, scale- and scheme-independent one-loop effective charge can be extended directly at the diagrammatic level to QCD, thus justifying explicitly the ``naive non-abelianization'' prescription used in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 N. J. Watson

We employ on-shell methods to construct scattering amplitudes and derive effective theories involving massive spin-3/2 fermions interacting with spin 0, 1 and 2 bosons. The four-point massive amplitudes are constructed using an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Tony Gherghetta , Wenqi Ke

RG flow of central charge $c_{\rm eff}$ is investigated for the two boundary sine-Gordon model at the free Fermi limit. Thermodynamic Bethe ansatz approach is used to check the non-monotonic decreasing properties of $c_{\rm eff}$, its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Chaiho Rim

We derived the corresponding boundary condition on Fermi fields to the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with boundary magnetic fields. In order to obtain the correct boundary condition from the variation of the action at the edges, we carefully…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-09 Chihiro Matsui

We present a new gauge-independent approach to resonant transition amplitudes with nonconserved external currents, based on the pinch technique method. In the context of $2\to 2$ and $2\to 3$ scattering processes, we show explicitly that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 Joannis Papavassiliou , Apostolos Pilaftsis

In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to systematically determine the missing boundary contributions, when one uses the BCFW on-shell recursion relation to calculate tree amplitudes for general quantum field theories. After an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-06 Bo Feng , Kang Zhou , Chenkai Qiao , Junjie Rao

In this paper, we extensively investigate the new algorithm known as the multi-step BCFW recursion relations. Many interesting mathematical properties are found and understanding these aspects, one can find a systematic way to complete the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-21 Bo Feng , Junjie Rao , Kang Zhou

We study the renormalization group of generic effective field theories that include gravity. We follow the on-shell amplitude approach, which provides a simple and efficient method to extract anomalous dimensions avoiding complications from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Pietro Baratella , Dominik Haslehner , Maximilian Ruhdorfer , Javi Serra , Andreas Weiler