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We build upon the prior works of [1-3] to study tree-level planar amplitudes for a massless scalar field theory with polynomial interactions. Focusing on a specific example, where the interaction is given by $\lambda_3\phi^{3}\ +\lambda_4…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-10 P. B. Aneesh , Mrunmay Jagadale , Nikhil Kalyanapuram

Starting with the seminal work of Arkani-Hamed et al arXiv:1711.09102, in arXiv:1811.05904, the "Amplituhedron program" was extended to analyzing (planar) amplitudes in massless $\phi^{4}$ theory. In this paper we show that the program can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Prashanth Raman

The decomposition of a one-loop scattering amplitude into elementary functions with rational coefficients introduces spurious singularities which afflict individual coefficients but cancel in the complete amplitude. These cancellations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 David C. Dunbar , James H. Ettle , Warren B. Perkins

We investigate a new algebra-based approach of finding Grassmannian formulas for scattering amplitudes. Our prime motivation is massive amplitudes of 4D $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM, and therefore we consider a 6D Grassmannian formula, where we can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-06 Klaus Bering , Michal Pazderka

We propose new formulae for the two-loop n-point D-dimensional integrands of scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory and gravity. The loop integrands are written as a double-forward limit of tree-level trivalent diagrams, and are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Yvonne Geyer , Ricardo Monteiro , Ricardo Stark-Muchão

The computation of n-point planar amplitudes in N=4 SYM at strong coupling is known to be reduced to the search for solutions of the integrable 2d SO(4,2) sigma-model with growing asymptotics on the world-sheet and to the study of their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-11 A. Mironov , A. Morozov , T. N. Tomaras

We prove a lower bound for the modulus of the amplitude for a two-body process at large scattering angle. This is based on the interplay of the analyticity of the amplitude and the positivity properties of its absorptive part. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-03 Henri Epstein , André Martin

We initiate a systematic study of amplitudes with massive external particles on the Coulomb-branch of N=4 super Yang Mills theory: 1) We propose that (multi-)soft-scalar limits of massless amplitudes at the origin of moduli space can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Nathaniel Craig , Henriette Elvang , Michael Kiermaier , Tracy Slatyer

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

Dual conformal symmetry has had a huge impact on our understanding of planar scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills. At tree level, it combines with the original conformal symmetry generators to a Yangian algebra, a hallmark of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Johannes M. Henn

We show that a master integrand basis exists for all planar, two-loop amplitudes in massless four-dimensional theories which is fully stratified by rigidity -- with each integrand being either pure and strictly polylogarithmic or (pure and)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Nikhil Kalyanapuram

We use massive spinor helicity formalism to study scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ super-Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. We compute the amplitudes at an arbitrary point in the Coulomb branch of this theory. We compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-15 Md. Abhishek , Subramanya Hegde , Dileep P. Jatkar , Arnab Priya Saha

Recent breakthroughs in the study of scattering amplitudes have uncovered profound and unexpected connections with combinatorial geometry. These connections range from classical structures -- such as polytopes, matroids, and Grassmannians…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Thomas Lam

We present the full two-loop four-graviton amplitudes in N=4,5,6 supergravity. These results were obtained using the double-copy structure of gravity, which follows from the recently conjectured color-kinematics duality in gauge theory. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 C. Boucher-Veronneau , L. J. Dixon

We propose an all-loop expression for scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in multi-Regge kinematics valid for all multiplicities, all helicity configurations and arbitrary logarithmic accuracy. Our expression is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-16 V. Del Duca , S. Druc , J. M. Drummond , C. Duhr , F. Dulat , R. Marzucca , G. Papathanasiou , B. Verbeek

This article introduces a new approach to implement positivity for the 2-loop n-particle MHV amplituhedron, circumventing the conventional triangulation with respect to positive variables of each cell carved out by the sign flips. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-06 Ryota Kojima , Junjie Rao

We derive new constraints on massive gravity from unitarity and analyticity of scattering amplitudes. Our results apply to a general effective theory defined by Einstein gravity plus the leading soft diffeomorphism-breaking corrections. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-05 Clifford Cheung , Grant N. Remmen

The infrared structure of (multi-loop) scattering amplitudes is determined entirely by the identities of the external particles participating in the scattering. The two-loop infrared structure of pure \qcd\ amplitudes has been known for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 William B. Kilgore

Celestial amplitudes are multiple Mellin transforms w.r.t. conformal dimensions. For arbitrary multiplicity $n$ of massless states in sufficiently high space--time dimension $D$ we perform all Mellin integrations and find an associahedron…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Jin Dong , Stephan Stieberger

We define the square amplitudes in planar Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena theory (ABJM), analogous to that in $\mathcal{N}{=}4$ super-Yang-Mills theory (SYM). Surprisingly, the $n$-point $L$-loop integrands with fixed $N{:=}n{+}L$ are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-07 Song He , Canxin Shi , Yichao Tang , Yao-Qi Zhang