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Classical double copy is an intriguing relationship between classical solutions to a gravity theory and solutions to classical Yang-Mills equations. Although formally inspired by the double copy relation between (quantum) scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Athira PV , A Manu

We prove that the scattering equation formalism for Yang-Mills amplitudes can be used to make manifest the theory's color-kinematics duality. This is achieved through a concrete reduction algorithm which renders this duality manifest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Poul H. Damgaard , Bo Feng

We show that color-kinematics duality is present in tree-level amplitudes of quantum chromodynamics with massive flavored quarks. Starting with the color structure of QCD, we work out a new color decomposition for n-point tree amplitudes in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-29 Henrik Johansson , Alexander Ochirov

We clarify the relation between the classical double copy and the double copy for amplitudes in the setting of selfdual gauge and gravity theories. To this end we construct explicit all-order perturbative solutions in these theories and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-21 Joris Raeymaekers

We show that color-kinematics duality is a manifest property of the equations of motion governing currents and field strengths. For the nonlinear sigma model (NLSM), this insight enables an implementation of the double copy at the level of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-18 Clifford Cheung , James Mangan

We obtain the detailed Feynman rules for perturbative gauge theory on a fixed Yang-Mills plane wave background. Using these rules, the tree-level 4-point gluon amplitude is computed and some 1-loop Feynman diagrams are considered. As an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Tim Adamo , Eduardo Casali , Lionel Mason , Stefan Nekovar

We find that scattering amplitudes in massive scalar QCD can manifest the duality between color and kinematics at loop-level. Specifically we construct the one-loop integrands for four-point scattering between two distinct massive scalars,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-10 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Ingrid A. Vazquez-Holm

In a previous paper we observed that (classical) tree-level gauge theory amplitudes can be rearranged to display a duality between color and kinematics. Once this is imposed, gravity amplitudes are obtained using two copies of gauge-theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Zvi Bern , John Joseph M. Carrasco , Henrik Johansson

We investigate tree-level five-point amplitudes in scalar-QCD expressed in terms of Sudakov variables and find the equivalent "gravitational" counterparts using the color-kinematics duality proposed by Bern, Carrasco, and Johannson. Taking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-29 Agustin Sabio Vera , Eduardo Serna Campillo , Miguel A. Vazquez-Mozo

We study the duality between color and kinematics for the Sudakov form factors of ${\rm tr}(F^2)$ in non-supersymmetric pure Yang-Mills theory. We construct the integrands that manifest the color-kinematics duality up to two loops. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Zeyu Li , Gang Yang , Jinxuan Zhang

We discuss how Moyal deformations of gauge theories, which arise naturally from open string theory, fit into the paradigm of colour-kinematics duality and the double copy of gauge theory to gravity. Along the way we encounter novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-30 Richard J. Szabo

Color-kinematics duality states that the kinematic numerators of the cubic tree-level Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes obey the same symmetry properties that the color factors obey due to the Jacobi identity. We present a novel strategy for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Roberto Bonezzi , Christoph Chiaffrino , Olaf Hohm , Maria Foteini Kallimani

We expose simple and practical relations between the integrated four- and five-point one-loop amplitudes of N >= 4 supergravity and the corresponding (super-)Yang-Mills amplitudes. The link between the amplitudes is simply understood using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Z. Bern , C. Boucher-Veronneau , H. Johansson

To explore color/kinematics duality for general representations of the gauge group we formulate the duality for general abelian orbifolds of the SU(N), N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions, which have fields in the bi-fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Marco Chiodaroli , Qingjun Jin , Radu Roiban

We prove that the tree-level scattering amplitudes for (super) Yang-Mills theory in arbitrary dimensions and for M2-brane models exhibit color-kinematics (CK) duality. Our proof for Yang-Mills theory substantially simplifies existing ones…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Leron Borsten , Branislav Jurco , Hyungrok Kim , Tommaso Macrelli , Christian Saemann , Martin Wolf

The duality between color and kinematics was originally observed for purely adjoint massless gauge theories, and later found to hold even after introducing massive fermionic and scalar matter in arbitrary gauge-group representations. Such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-11 Henrik Johansson , Alexander Ochirov

Scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory are known to exhibit kinematic structures which hint to an underlying kinematic algebra that is dual to the gauge group color algebra. This color-kinematics duality is still poorly understood in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-02 Maor Ben-Shahar , Lucia Garozzo , Henrik Johansson

We find that unitarity cuts and the duality between color and kinematics are sufficient constraints to bootstrap $D$-dimensional QCD scattering amplitudes starting from three-particle tree-level. Specifically, we calculate tree level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-25 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Aslan Seifi

Conventional Lagrangian formulations of gauge and gravity theories emphasize compactness and off-shell symmetry. This often obscures the structure of on-shell physical observables. In this work, we present a constructive framework that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-20 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Suna Zekioglu

By employing the perturbiner method we study the tree- and one-loop-level amplitudes in (anti)self-dual Yang-Mills, focusing on color-kinematics duality and double copy features; they arise naturally even in the fully off-shell case. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-11 Daniel Herrera Correa , Cristhiam Lopez-Arcos , Alexander Quintero Velez