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In this paper, we present an improvement of a method for computing scattering amplitudes that include external (polarized) fermions with the following features: the formulas are quite general and work for different kinematic configurations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Chopin

We develop a systematic unitarity method for loop-level AdS scattering amplitudes, dual to non-planar CFT correlators, from both bulk and boundary perspectives. We identify cut operators acting on bulk amplitudes that put virtual lines on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 David Meltzer , Eric Perlmutter , Allic Sivaramakrishnan

We study wave scattering from a gently curved surface. We show that the recursive relations, implied by shift invariance, among the coefficients of the perturbative series for the scattering amplitude allow to perform an infinite…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Giuseppe Bimonte

We investigate numerically different techniques to extract scattering amplitudes from the Euclidean Lattice {\phi}4 theory with two fields, having different masses. We present an exploratory study of the recently proposed method by Bruno…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-03 Marco Garofalo , Fernando Romero-López , Akaki Rusetsky , Carsten Urbach

Infrared divergences in the perturbative expansion of gauge theory amplitudes and cross sections have been a focus of theoretical investigations for almost a century. New insights still continue to emerge, as higher perturbative orders are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-16 Neelima Agarwal , Lorenzo Magnea , Chiara Signorile-Signorile , Anurag Tripathi

You might've heard about various mathematical properties of scattering amplitudes such as analyticity, sheets, branch cuts, discontinuities, etc. What does it all mean? In these lectures, we'll take a guided tour through simple scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-20 Sebastian Mizera

The Taylor expansion of wave fields with respect to shape parameters has a wide range of applications in wave scattering problems, including inverse scattering, optimal design, and uncertainty quantification. However, deriving the high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Gang Bao , Haoran Ma , Jun Lai , Jingzhi Li

Meson-Baryon Interactions can be successfully described using both Chiral Symmetry and Unitarity. The $s-$wave meson-baryon scattering amplitude is analyzed in a Bethe-Salpeter coupled channel formalism incorporating Chiral Symmetry in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 C. Garcia-Recio , J. Nieves , E. Ruiz Arriola , M. Vicente Vacas

This lecture note adresses the correspondence between spectral flows, often associated to unidirectional modes, and Chern numbers associated to degeneracy points. The notions of topological indices (Chern numbers, analytical indices) are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Pierre Delplace

We review two novel techniques used to calculate tree-level scattering amplitudes efficiently: MHV diagrams, and on-shell recursion relations. For the MHV diagrams, we consider applications to tree-level amplitudes and focus in particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

Recursion relations are succinctly obtained for $(++... +)$ and $(-++... +)$ amplitudes in the context of the space-cone gauge in QCD. We rely on the helicity symmetry of the problems to dictate our choices of reference twistors and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Diana Vaman , York-Peng Yao

This is the first in a series of papers presenting a new understanding of scattering amplitudes based on fundamentally combinatorial ideas in the kinematic space of the scattering data. We study the simplest theory of colored scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 N. Arkani-Hamed , H. Frost , G. Salvatori , P-G. Plamondon , H. Thomas

In these lectures, we discuss some well-known facts about Clifford algebras: matrix representations, Cartan's periodicity of 8, double coverings of orthogonal groups by spin groups, Dirac equation in different formalisms, spinors in $n$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 D. S. Shirokov

We show that the half-integrands in the CHY representation of tree amplitudes give rise to the definition of differential forms -- the scattering forms -- on the moduli space of a Riemann sphere with $n$ marked points. These differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Leonardo de la Cruz , Alexander Kniss , Stefan Weinzierl

We describe the recently developed on-shell bootstrap for computing one-loop amplitudes in non-supersymmetric theories such as QCD. The method combines the unitarity method with loop-level on-shell recursion. The unitarity method is used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carola F. Berger , Zvi Bern , Lance J. Dixon , Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

We consider UV divergences for the on-shell planar gluon-gluon scattering amplitudes in the gauge theory in arbitrary D-dimensions in the one-loop order. The amplitudes are evaluated using the standard Feynman diagram technique for several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 A. T. Borlakov , D. I. Kazakov

We propose a recursive method that makes use of the basic principle of unitarity to calculate the Landau singularities of n-point scattering amplitudes directly in kinematic space. For a vast class of Feynman diagrams, the method enables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-27 Simon Caron-Huot , Miguel Correia , Mathieu Giroux

In these lectures we provide a basic introduction into the topic of dispersion relation and analyticity. The properties of 2-point functions are discussed in some detail from the viewpoint of the K\"all\'en-Lehmann and general dispersion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-20 Roman Zwicky

Perturbative scattering amplitudes in gauge theories have remarkable simplicity and hidden infinite dimensional symmetries that are completely obscured in the conventional formulation of field theory using Feynman diagrams. This suggests…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jaroslav Trnka

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