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We recursively construct tree-level electromagnetic and gravitational Compton amplitudes of higher-spin massive particles by the all-line transverse momentum shift. With three-point amplitude as input, we demonstrate that higher-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-04 Yohei Ema , Ting Gao , Wenqi Ke , Zhen Liu , Ishmam Mahbub

We review the recently developed bootstrap method for the computation of high-multiplicity QCD amplitudes at one loop. We illustrate the general algorithm step by step with a six-point example. The method combines (generalized) unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carola F. Berger

The Cachazo-He-Yuan (CHY) formula for on-shell scattering amplitudes are extended off-shell. The off-shell amplitudes are M\"obius invariant, and have the same momentum poles as the on-shell amplitudes. The same technique is also used to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-23 C. S. Lam , York-Peng Yao

We compute the integrand of the full-colour, two-loop, five-gluon scattering amplitude in pure Yang-Mills theory with all helicities positive, using generalized unitarity cuts. Tree-level BCJ relations, satisfied by amplitudes appearing in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-16 Simon Badger , Gustav Mogull , Alexander Ochirov , Donal O'Connell

We compute in conventional dimensional regularisation the tree-level splitting amplitudes for a gluon parent which splits into four collinear partons. This is part of the universal infrared behaviour of the QCD scattering amplitudes at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Vittorio Del Duca , Claude Duhr , Rayan Haindl , Achilleas Lazopoulos , Martin Michel

In this paper we present the all-loop conjecture for integrands of Wilson line form factors, also known as reggeon amplitudes, in N=4 SYM. In particular we present a new gluing operation in momentum twistor space used to obtain reggeon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 A. E. Bolshov , L. V. Bork , A. I. Onishchenko

We compute off-shell three- and four-tachyon amplitudes at tree level by using a prescription based on the requirement of projective invariance. In particular we show that the off-shell four-tachyon amplitude can be put in the same form as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Cuomo , R. Marotta , F. Nicodemi , R. Pettorino , F. Pezzella , G. Sabella

We derive a general expression for on-shell recursion relations of closed string tree-level amplitudes. Starting with the string amplitudes written in the form of the Koba-Nielsen integral, we apply the BCFW shift to deform them. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Pongwit Srisangyingcharoen , Aphiwat Yuenyong

We use on-shell methods to calculate tree-level effective field theory (EFT) amplitudes, with no reference to the EFT operators. Lorentz symmetry, unitarity and Bose statistics determine the allowed kinematical structures. As a by-product,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Yael Shadmi , Yaniv Weiss

We use tree-level perturbation theory to show how non-supersymmetric one-loop scattering amplitudes for a Higgs boson plus an arbitrary number of partons can be constructed, in the limit of a heavy top quark, from a generalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Lance J. Dixon , E. W. N. Glover , Valentin V. Khoze

We compute the two-loop QED helicity amplitudes for the scattering of a lepton pair with an off-shell and an on-shell photon, $0\to\ell\bar\ell\gamma\gamma^*$, using the approximation of massless leptons. We express all master integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-10 Simon Badger , Jakub Kryś , Ryan Moodie , Simone Zoia

We propose the on-shell superfield description for tree amplitudes of D=11 supergravity and the BCFW (Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten)-type recurrent relations for these superamplitudes.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-07 Igor Bandos

We propose a quantum algorithm for computing the n-gluon maximally helicity violating (MHV) tree-level scattering amplitude. We revisit a newly proposed method for unitarisation of non-unitary operations and present how this implementation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-17 Erik Bashore , Stefano Moretti , Timea Vitos

I discuss how to obtain angular decay distributions for sequential cascade decays using helicity methods. The angular decay distributions follow from a reasonably simple master formula involving bilinear forms of helicity amplitudes and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-13 J. G. Körner

The consequences of on-shell supersymmetry are studied for scattering amplitudes with massive particles in four dimensions. Using the massive version of the spinor helicity formalism the supersymmetry transformations relating products of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-22 Rutger H. Boels , Christian Schwinn

We show that a natural spinor-helicity formalism that can describe massive scattering amplitudes exists in $D=6$ dimensions. This is arranged by having helicity spinors carry an index in the Dirac spinor {\bf 4} of the massive little group,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Rishabh Jha , Chethan Krishnan , K. V. Pavan Kumar

We describe techniques that simplify the calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes with many external legs, which are needed for next-to-leading-order (NLO) corrections to multi-jet processes. The constraints imposed by perturbative unitarity,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. C. Dunbar , D. A. Kosower

We perform a comprehensive study of on-shell recursion relations for Born amplitudes in spontaneously broken gauge theories and identify the minimal shifts required to construct amplitudes with a given particle content and spin quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Robert Franken , Christian Schwinn

We calculate the triple gluon, ghost-gluon and quark-gluon vertex functions at two loops in the MSbar scheme in the chiral limit for an arbitrary linear covariant gauge when the external legs are all off-shell.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-16 J. A. Gracey

In this paper we consider tree-level gauge invariant off-shell amplitudes (Wilson line form factors) in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM with arbitrary number of off-shell gluons or equivalently Wilson line operator insertions. We make a conjecture for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-20 L. V. Bork , A. I. Onishchenko