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We investigate the tree-level S-matrix in gauge theories and open superstring theory with several soft particles. We show that scattering amplitudes with two or three soft gluons of non-identical helicities behave universally in the limit,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-31 Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen , Michael Zlotnikov

At the tree level, the maximally helicity violating amplitudes of N gauge bosons in open superstring theory and of N gravitons in supergravity are known to have simple representations in terms of tree graphs. For superstrings, the graphs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

Soft limits of massless S-matrix are known to reflect symmetries of the theory. In particular for theories with Goldstone bosons, the double-soft limit of scalars reveals the coset structure of the vacuum manifold. In this letter, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-23 Wei-Ming Chen , Yu-tin Huang , Congkao Wen

We construct the unintegrated vertex operator at the first mass level of the open superstring from the OPE of massless vertices. Using BRST cohomology manipulations, the tree amplitude of two massless and one massive state is rewritten in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-06 Sitender Pratap Kashyap , Carlos R. Mafra , Mritunjay Verma , Luis Ypanaqué

We express one-loop string amplitudes involving both open and closed strings as sum over pure open string amplitudes. These findings generalize the analogous tree-level result to higher loops and extend the tree-level observation that in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-10 S. Stieberger

We argue that the scattering of gravitons in ordinary Einstein gravity possesses a hidden conformal symmetry at tree level in any number of dimensions. The presence of this conformal symmetry is indicated by the dilaton soft theorem in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Florian Loebbert , Matin Mojaza , Jan Plefka

We study the behaviour of Yang-Mills and gravity amplitudes under the soft limit in the four-dimensional ambitwistor string formalism and derive their soft theorems to arbitrary order. For this purpose, we apply some mathematics. Methods of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-01 QiouShi Li

Extensions of the photon and graviton soft theorems are derived in 4d local effective field theories with massless particles of arbitrary spin. We prove that effective operators can result in new terms in the soft theorems at subleading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-14 Henriette Elvang , Callum R. T. Jones , Stephen G. Naculich

We consider theories of weakly interacting higher spin particles in flat spacetime. We focus on the four-point scattering amplitude at high energies and imaginary scattering angles. The leading asymptotic of the amplitude in this regime is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Amit Sever , Alexander Zhiboedov

Soft theorems describe the behavior of scattering amplitudes when one or several external particles are taken to be energetically soft. In tree-level gravity there are universal soft theorems for the three leading orders in the soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-24 Eivind Jørstad , Sruthi A. Narayanan

Soft factorization has been shown to hold to sub-leading order in QED and to sub-sub-leading order in perturbative quantum gravity, with various loop and non-universal corrections that can be found. Here we show that all terms factorizing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-06 Colby DeLisle , Jordan Wilson-Gerow , Philip Stamp

The tree-level amplitude of six massless open strings is computed using the pure spinor formalism. The OPE poles among integrated and unintegrated vertices can be efficiently organized according to the cohomology of pure spinor superspace.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer , Stephan Stieberger , Dimitrios Tsimpis

We investigate the behavior of superstring disk scattering amplitudes in the presence of a soft external momentum at finite string tension. We prove that there are no $\alpha'$-corrections to the field theory form of the subleading soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-27 Burkhard U. W. Schwab

In theories of Einstein gravity coupled with a dilaton and a two-form, a soft theorem for the two-form, known as the Kalb-Ramond B-field, has so far been missing. In this work we fill the gap, and in turn formulate a unified soft theorem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Paolo Di Vecchia , Raffaele Marotta , Matin Mojaza

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

In this letter we show that the soft behaviour of photons and graviton amplitudes, after projection, can be determined to infinite order in soft expansion via ordinary on-shell gauge invariance. In particular, as one of the particle's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Zhi-Zhong Li , Hung-Hwa Lin , Shun-Qing Zhang

We show that at tree level, on-shell gauge invariance can be used to fully determine the first subleading soft-gluon behavior and the first two subleading soft-graviton behaviors. Our proofs of the behaviors for n-gluon and n-graviton tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-11 Zvi Bern , Scott Davies , Paolo Di Vecchia , Josh Nohle

We provide a prescription for computing two-point tree amplitudes in the pure spinor formalism that are finite and agree with the corresponding expression in the field theories. In [arXiv:1906.06051v1-arXiv:1909.03672v3], same results were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-15 Sitender Pratap Kashyap

We evaluate the one-loop four-graviton scattering amplitude in type-II superstring theory exactly in $\alpha'$. This result is achieved by combining physical insights into the $i\varepsilon$ prescription in string theory with a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Marco Maria Baccianti , Lorenz Eberhardt , Sebastian Mizera

In this paper we continue our investigation of superstring scattering amplitudes in the conformal basis. We focus on the case of four graviton scattering processes at 1-loop in \emph{closed} superstring theory. We write the expression for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-28 Anthonny F. Canazas Garay , Gaston Giribet , Yoel Parra-Cisterna , Francisco Rojas