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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

We present on the use of on-shell recursion relations. These can be used not only for calculating tree amplitudes, including those with masses, but also to compute analytically the missing rational terms of one-loop QCD amplitudes. Combined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Darren Forde

Beyond standard model (BSM) particles should be included in effective field theory in order to compute the scattering amplitudes involving these extra particles. We formulate an extension of Higgs effective field theory which contains…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Ryo Nagai , Masaharu Tanabashi , Koji Tsumura , Yoshiki Uchida

We elaborate the two-fold simplex-like structures of tree amplitudes in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills (N=4 SYM), through its connection to a mathematical structure known as the positive Grassmannian. Exploiting the reduced…

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

Bipartite on-shell diagrams are the latest tool in constructing scattering amplitudes. In this paper we prove that a Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten (BCFW)-decomposable on-shell diagram process a rational top-form if and only if the algebraic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Baoyi Chen , Gang Chen , Yeuk-Kwan E. Cheung , Yunxuan Li , Ruofei Xie , Yuan Xin

We investigate the soft decomposition of tree-level gluon amplitudes with split-helicity configurations. First, we show how any split-helicity amplitude can be fully fixed from inverse soft limit using BCFW calculation. We show how the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Andriniaina Narindra Rasoanaivo , Fanomezantsoa Arlivah Andriantsarafara

On-shell amplitudes are invariant under field redefinitions. Nonderivative field redefinitions have a natural interpretation as coordinate transformations on the target manifold. General field redefinitions, which may involve derivatives,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 Timothy Cohen , Xu-Xiang Li , Zhengkang Zhang

Using BCFW on-shell recursion techniques, we prove a sequence of explicit n-point Kawai-Lewellen-Tye relations between gravity and Yang-Mills amplitudes at tree level.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Bo Feng , Thomas Sondergaard

A remarkable connection between perturbative scattering amplitudes of four-dimensional planar SYM, and the stratification of the positive grassmannian, was revealed in the seminal work of Arkani-Hamed et. al. Similar extension for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Yu-tin Huang , CongKao Wen

On-shell constructibility is redefining our understanding of perturbative quantum field theory. The tree-level S-matrix of constructible theories is completely determined by a set of recurrence relations and a reduced number of scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-16 Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Francesco Di Filippo , Nathan Moynihan

Using the method of on-shell recursion relations we compute tree level amplitudes including D-dimensional scalars and fermions. These tree level amplitudes are needed for calculations of one-loop amplitudes in QCD involving external quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Callum Quigley , Moshe Rozali

We present a complete set of 4-point amplitudes in the constructive Standard Model at tree level. Any 4-point amplitude can be obtained from the results presented here by a suitable choice of masses, a permutation of the particles (by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-18 Neil Christensen

In this paper, we investigate the $2$-split behavior of tree-level amplitudes of bi-adjoint scalar (BAS), Yang-Mills (YM), non-linear sigma model (NLSM), and general relativity (GR) theories under certain kinematic conditions. Our approach…

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

We present a prescription for computing tree-level scattering amplitudes in 10D super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory using the pure spinor worldline formalism. The pure spinor formalism has proven to be a powerful framework for studying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Max Guillen , Marcelo dos Santos , Eggon Viana

By means of a kinematic analysis of tree level graviton amplitudes we find, at least through six points, that the reason of their decompositon as a sum over products of Yang-Mills amplitudes is on-shell gauge invariance and unitarity. As a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Luiz Antonio Barreiro , Ricardo Medina

Tree-level scattering amplitudes for gravitons, gluons and Goldstone particles in any dimensions are strongly constrained by basic principles, and they are intimately related to each other via various relations. We study two types of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Jin Dong , Song He , Linghui Hou

Recently, tree-level recursion relations for scattering amplitudes of gluons in Yang-Mills theory have been derived. In this note we propose a generalization of the recursion relations to tree-level scattering amplitudes of gravitons. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Freddy Cachazo , Peter Svrcek

We systematically explore the landscape of nonrelativistic effective field theories with a local $S$-matrix and enhanced symmetries and soft behavior. The exploration is carried out using both conventional quantum field theory methods based…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-18 Martin A. Mojahed , Tomáš Brauner

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

We initiate a systematic study on how to extract planar integrands of (supersymmetric) scattering amplitudes with $L$ loops and $n$ legs in Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena (ABJM) theory from the recently proposed (bosonic) generating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-09 Song He , Yao-Qi Zhang