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The purely on-shell approach to effective field theories requires the construction of independent contact terms. Employing the little-group-covariant massive-spinor formalism, we present the first systematic derivation of independent…

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We derive new amplitudes relations revealing a hidden unity among wide-ranging theories in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. Our results rely on a set of Lorentz invariant differential operators which transmute physical tree-level scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Clifford Cheung , Chia-Hsien Shen , Congkao Wen

We systematically explore the space of scalar effective field theories (EFTs) consistent with a Lorentz invariant and local S-matrix. To do so we define an EFT classification based on four parameters characterizing 1) the number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Clifford Cheung , Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Chia-Hsien Shen , Jaroslav Trnka

Recently, by using the known structure of one-loop scattering amplitudes for gluons in Yang-Mills theory, a recursion relation for tree-level scattering amplitudes has been deduced. Here, we give a short and direct proof of this recursion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Ruth Britto , Freddy Cachazo , Bo Feng , Edward Witten

We consider on-shell recursion relations for all Born QCD amplitudes. This includes amplitudes with several pairs of quarks and massive quarks. We give a detailed description on how to shift the external particles in spinor space and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Christian Schwinn , Stefan Weinzierl

Lecture notes on Poincar\'e-invariant scattering amplitudes and tree-level recursion relations in spinor-helicity formalism. We illustrate the non-perturbative constraints imposed over on-shell amplitudes by the Lorentz Little Group, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-30 Andrea Marzolla

We extend the soft theorems for scattering amplitudes of scalar effective field theories to one-loop order. Our analysis requires carefully accounting for the fact that the soft limit is not guaranteed to commute with evaluating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-18 Timothy Cohen , Ipak Fadakar , Andreas Helset , Filippo Nardi

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 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

The quantum effects encapsulated in loop corrections are crucial in quantum field theory for a wide variety of formal and phenomenological applications. In this article we propose and check a definition of the so-called single cut…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-18 Rutger H. Boels , Hui Luo

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

We study scattering equations and formulas for tree amplitudes of various theories in four dimensions, in terms of spinor helicity variables and on-shell superspace for supersymmetric theories. As originally obtained in Witten's twistor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-15 Song He , Zhengwen Liu , Jun-Bao Wu

We present a bottom-up construction of vector effective field theories using the infrared structure of scattering amplitudes. Our results employ two distinct probes of soft kinematics: multiple soft limits and single soft limits after…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Clifford Cheung , Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Chia-Hsien Shen , Jaroslav Trnka , Congkao Wen

In this letter, we construct the recursion relations for one-loop planar integrands in the SU(N) non-linear sigma model. This generalizes the soft recursions for tree-level amplitudes in a variety of quantum field theories with special soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-13 Christoph Bartsch , Karol Kampf , Jaroslav Trnka

We present a novel framework for deriving on-shell recursion relations, with a specific focus on biadjoint and pure Yang-Mills theories. Starting from the double-cover CHY factorization formulae, we identify a suitable set of independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Humberto Gomez

We use the amplitude soft bootstrap method to explore the space of effective field theories (EFT) of massless vectors and scalars. It is known that demanding vanishing soft limits fixes uniquely a special class of EFTs: non-linear sigma…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Filip Preucil , Jaroslav Trnka

We study in detail the general structure and further properties of the tree-level amplitudes in the SU(N) nonlinear sigma model. We construct the flavor-ordered Feynman rules for various parameterizations of the SU(N) fields U(x), write…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Jaroslav Trnka

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 emphasize that scattering amplitudes of a wide class of models to any order in the coupling are constructible by on-shell tree subamplitudes. This follows from the Feynman-tree theorem combined with BCFW on-shell recursion relations. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 M. Maniatis

We derive soft theorems for on-shell scattering amplitudes from non-linearly realised global space-time symmetries, arising from the flat space and decoupling limits of the effective field theories (EFTs) of inflation, while taking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-14 Zong-Zhe Du