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Scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory are independent of the field parameterization, which has a natural geometric interpretation as a form of `coordinate invariance.' Amplitudes can be expressed in terms of Riemannian curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Timothy Cohen , Nathaniel Craig , Xiaochuan Lu , Dave Sutherland

We present the first calculation of two-quark and five-gluon tree amplitudes using on-shell recursion relations. These amplitudes are needed for tree level 5-jet cross-section and an essential ingredient for next-to-leading order 4-jet and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Daniel de Florian , Jose Zurita

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 derive a recursion relation for loop-level scattering amplitudes of Lagrangian field theories that generalises the tree-level Berends-Giele recursion relation in Yang-Mills theory. The origin of this recursion relation is the homological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-07 Branislav Jurco , Tommaso Macrelli , Christian Saemann , Martin Wolf

Invariance of on-shell scattering amplitudes under field redefinitions is a well known property in field theory that corresponds to covariance of on-shell amputated connected functions. In recent years there have been great efforts to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Mohammad Alminawi

Using newly proposed BCF/BCFW recursion relations, compact formulas are obtained for tree-level n-gluon amplitudes of helicity structure --++...+. We then make an extension of these recursion relations to include fermions of multi-flavors,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mingxing Luo , Congkao Wen

The Ward identity in gauge theory constrains the behavior of the amplitudes. We discuss the Ward identity for amplitudes with a pair of shifted lines with complex momenta. This will induce a recursion relation identical to BCFW recursion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Gang Chen

We provide a recursive diagrammatic prescription for the exponentiation of gauge theory amplitudes involving products of Wilson lines and loops. This construction generalizes the concept of webs, originally developed for eikonal form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-21 Alexander Mitov , George Sterman , Ilmo Sung

We propose a conjectured formula that systematically maps covariant off-shell amplitudes to light-cone wave functions in scalar field theory. Through an explicit comparison at one-loop accuracy, we establish its equivalence to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Stéphane Munier

Over the past year, the "scalar-scaffolding" formalism has revealed a number of new features of gluon amplitudes. In this paper, we leverage these developments to study two distinct but related questions, linked by the scaffolding statement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Jeffrey V. Backus , Carolina Figueiredo

We investigate the relation between 4d ambitwistor string theory and on-shell diagrams for planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills and N=8 supergravity, and deduce several new results about their scattering amplitudes at tree-level and 1-loop. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Joseph A. Farrow , Arthur E. Lipstein

We propose a recursion relation for tree-level scattering amplitudes in three-dimensional Chern-Simons-matter theories. The recursion relation involves a complex deformation of momenta which generalizes the BCFW-deformation used in higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Dongmin Gang , Yu-tin Huang , Eunkyung Koh , Sangmin Lee , Arthur E. Lipstein

The gluon tree amplitudes of open twistor string theory, defined as contour integrals over the ACCK link variables, are shown to satisfy the BCFW relations, thus confirming that they coincide with the corresponding amplitudes in gauge field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Louise Dolan , Peter Goddard

Tree-level scattering amplitudes for a scalar particle coupled to an arbitrary number N of photons and a single graviton are computed. We employ the worldline formalism as the main tool to compute the irreducible part of the amplitude,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-04 Naser Ahmadiniaz , Filippo Maria Balli , Olindo Corradini , José Manuel Dávila , Christian Schubert

We define recursion relations for N = 8 supergravity amplitudes using a generalization of the on-shell diagrams developed for planar N = 4 super-Yang-Mills. Although the recursion relations generically give rise to non-planar on-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Paul Heslop , Arthur E. Lipstein

We give an explicit formula for all tree amplitudes in N=4 SYM, derived by solving the recently presented supersymmetric tree-level recursion relations. The result is given in a compact, manifestly supersymmetric form and we show how to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 J. M. Drummond , J. M. Henn

We present a proof of the Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten tree-level recursion relation for gluon amplitudes in QCD, based on a direct equivalence between BCFW decompositions and Feynman diagrams. We demonstrate that this equivalence can be made…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 Petros D. Draggiotis , Ronald H. P. Kleiss , Achilleas Lazopoulos , Costas G. Papadopoulos

We study "on-shell constructibility" of tree amplitudes from recursion relations in general 4-dimensional local field theories with any type of particles, both massless and massive. Our analysis applies to renormalizable as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Timothy Cohen , Henriette Elvang , Michael Kiermaier

We complete the generalisation of the BCFW recursion relation to the off-shell case, allowing for the computation of tree level scattering amplitudes for full High Energy Factorisation (HEF), i.e. with both incoming partons having a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-03 Andreas van Hameren , Krzysztof Kutak , Mirko Serino

I review the recent progress in studying long-distance singularities in gauge-theory scattering amplitudes in terms of Wilson lines. The non-Abelian exponentiation theorem, which has been recently generalised to the case of multi-leg…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-03 Einan Gardi