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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

Arkani-Hamed et. al. have recently shown that all tree-level scattering amplitudes in maximal supergravity exhibit exceptionally soft behavior when two supermomenta are taken to infinity in a particular complex direction, and that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen

We discuss recursion relations for scattering amplitudes with massive particles of any spin. They are derived via a two-parameter shift of momenta, combining a BCFW-type spinor shift with the soft limit of a massless particle involved in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Adam Falkowski , Camila S. Machado

BCFW deformation has served as an extremely useful tool in providing a recursive approach in studying color-ordered gauge amplitudes. This procedure has also been generalized to the study of graviton scattering. An important ingredient of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-03 Chih-Hao Fu , Jen-Chi Lee , Chung-I Tan , Yi Yang

Celestial amplitudes are flat-space amplitudes which are Mellin-transformed to correlators living on the celestial sphere. In this note we present a recursion relation, based on a tree-level BCFW recursion, for gravitational celestial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-20 Alfredo Guevara

We construct an off-shell extension of cubic interaction vertices between massless bosonic Higher Spin fields on a flat background which can be obtained from perturbative bosonic string theory. We demonstrate how to construct higher quartic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-23 A. Fotopoulos , M. Tsulaia

We study all tree-level split helicity gluon amplitudes by using the recently proposed BCFW recursion relation and Hodges diagrams in ambitwistor space. We pick out the contributing diagrams and find that all of them can be divided into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-07 Bin Chen , Jun-Bao Wu

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 2018-02-20 Baoyi Chen , Gang Chen , Yeuk-Kwan E. Cheung , Ruofei Xie , Yuan Xin

In this paper, we explore the applicability of the BCFW-like recursion relations \cite{He:2018svj,Yang:2019esm} to a wider class of positive geometries. Previously it was found in \cite{Jagadale:2022rbl}, the tree level scattering amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Sujoy Mahato , Sourav Roychowdhury

We analyze the off-shell scattering amplitudes in the framework of the light-front perturbation theory. It is shown that the previously derived recursion relation between tree level off-shell amplitudes in this formalism actually resums…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-24 C. Cruz-Santiago , P. Kotko , A. Stasto

In this article, we analyze the boundary behaviors of pure Yang-Mills amplitudes under adjacent and non adjacent BCFW shifts in Feynman gauge. We introduce reduced vertexes for Yang-Mills fields, prove that these reduced vertexes are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-09 Yun Zhang , Gang Chen

The on-shell diagram is a very important tool in studying scattering amplitudes. In this paper we discuss the on-shell diagrams without external BCFW-bridges. We introduce an extra step of adding an auxiliary external momentum line. Then we…

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

We derive novel recursion relations for all loop amplitude integrands of planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in terms of unitarity-like `cuts' obtained via sequences of BCFW deformations in momentum-twistor space.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-04 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Simon Caron-Huot

I provide a basic introduction to modern helicity amplitude methods, including color organization, the spinor helicity formalism, and factorization properties. I also describe the BCFW (on-shell) recursion relation at tree level, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-02 Lance J. Dixon

6D maximal super Yang-Mills on-shell amplitudes are formulated in superspace using 6 dimensional twistors. The 3,4,5-point tree amplitudes are obtained by supersymmetrizing their bosonic counterparts and confirmed through the BCFW…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang , Warren Siegel

The appearance of BCFW on-shell recursion relation has deepen our understanding of quantum field theory, especially the one with gauge boson and graviton. To be able to write the BCFW recursion relation, the knowledge of boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-01 Bo Feng , Junqi Wang , Yihong Wang , Zhibai Zhang

We construct two and three-line shifts for tree-level amplitude with massless and/or massive particles, and provide a method to construct general multi-line shifts for all masses. We choose the massless-massive BCFW shift from these shifts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Chao Wu , Shou-Hua Zhu

In this paper, we extensively investigate the new algorithm known as the multi-step BCFW recursion relations. Many interesting mathematical properties are found and understanding these aspects, one can find a systematic way to complete the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-21 Bo Feng , Junjie Rao , Kang Zhou

In this paper, we investigate the expansion of tree level multitrace Einstein-Yang-Mills (EYM) amplitudes. First, we propose two types of recursive expansions of tree level EYM amplitudes with an arbitrary number of gluons, gravitons and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-12 Yi-Jian Du , Bo Feng , Fei Teng

We study the scattering amplitudes of mass-deformed Chern-Simons theories and Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theories with N=2 supersymmetry in three dimensions. In particular, we derive the on-shell supersymmetry algebras which underlie the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-05 Abhishek Agarwal , Arthur E. Lipstein , Donovan Young