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This review describes the duality between color and kinematics and its applications, with the aim of gaining a deeper understanding of the perturbative structure of gauge and gravity theories. We emphasize, in particular, applications to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-05 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Marco Chiodaroli , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban

Tree-level scattering amplitudes of particles have a geometrical description in terms of intersection numbers of pairs of twisted differential forms on the moduli space of Riemann spheres with punctures. We customize a catalog of twisted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-26 Pouria Mazloumi , Stephan Stieberger

The infrared singularities of scattering amplitudes have historically contributed to much development in understanding fundamental structures in physics. However, the fate of the leading soft singularities of amplitudes in non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-16 Sonja Klisch

The double copy formalism provides an intriguing connection between gauge theories and gravity. It was first demonstrated in the perturbative context of scattering amplitudes but recently the formalism has been applied to exact classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Rashid Alawadhi , David S. Berman , Bill Spence , David Peinador Veiga

The double copy relationship between Yang-Mills theory and general relativity can be stated in terms of a field theory Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) momentum kernel, which maps two colour-ordered gluon amplitudes to a graviton amplitude at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-21 Tim Adamo , Sonja Klisch

We perform a Feynman diagram calculation of the two-loop scattering amplitude for gravitationally interacting massive particles in the classical limit. Conveniently, we are able to sidestep the most taxing diagrams by exploiting the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Clifford Cheung , Mikhail P. Solon

We explore consequences of the recently discovered duality between color and kinematics, which states that kinematic numerators in a diagrammatic expansion of gauge-theory amplitudes can be arranged to satisfy Jacobi-like identities in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Zvi Bern , Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang , Michael Kiermaier

Scattering amplitudes are both a wonderful playground to discover novel ideas in Quantum Field Theory and simultaneously of immense phenomenological importance to make precision predictions for e.g.~particle collider observables and more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-24 Enrico Herrmann , Jaroslav Trnka

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 propose a novel type of duality that connects a sequence of well-known theories with even-multiplicity scalar amplitudes: it relates the Yang-Mills theory coupled to a specific scalar matter sector to the nonlinear sigma model on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-04 Tomas Brauner , Yang Li , Diederik Roest , Tianzhi Wang

We present all-multiplicity formulae for the tree-level scattering of gluons and gravitons in the maximal helicity violating (MHV) helicity configuration, calculated in certain chiral strong fields. The strong backgrounds we consider are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-29 Tim Adamo , Lionel Mason , Atul Sharma

We use the duality between color and kinematics to obtain scattering amplitudes in non-minimal conformal N=0,1,2,4 (super)gravity theories. Generic tree amplitudes can be constructed from a double copy between (super-)Yang-Mills theory and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-11 Henrik Johansson , Josh Nohle

The scattering of test fields by sandwich waves has been studied extensively. It has been found that for a variety of test fields, the energy of the scattered waves is amplified. In this paper, Scattering of test gravitational waves by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-13 Ziqian Tang

We propose new formulae for the two-loop n-point D-dimensional integrands of scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory and gravity. The loop integrands are written as a double-forward limit of tree-level trivalent diagrams, and are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Yvonne Geyer , Ricardo Monteiro , Ricardo Stark-Muchão

Scattering amplitudes in planar super-Yang-Mills theory satisfy several basic physical and mathematical constraints, including physical constraints on their branch cut structure and various empirically discovered connections to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-05 Thomas Harrington , Marcus Spradlin

We obtain the matter-graviton scattering amplitude in the gravitational theory of quadratic curvature, which has $R_{\mu\nu}^2$ term in the action. Unitarity bound is not satisfied because of the existence of negative norm states, while an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Yugo Abe , Takeo Inami , Keisuke Izumi

We compute the leading probability for a gluon to flip helicity state upon traversing a background plane wave gauge field in pure Yang-Mills theory and QCD, with an arbitrary number of colours and flavours. This is a one-loop calculation in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Tim Adamo , Anton Ilderton

The double copy is a well-established relationship between gravity and gauge theories. It relates perturbative scattering amplitudes as well as classical solutions, and recently there has been mounting evidence that it also applies to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-17 Rashid Alawadhi , David S. Berman , Chris D. White , Sam Wikeley

The calculation of scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory at loop level is important for the analysis of background processes at particle colliders as well as our understanding of perturbation theory at the quantum level. We present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Rutger H. Boels , Reinke Sven Isermann

We revisit the emergence of a Yang-Mills symmetry in theories with massless spin 1 particles from fundamental physical properties of scattering amplitudes. In the standard proofs, some symmetry and reality properties of the coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Renato M. Fonseca , Clara Hernandez-Garcia , Javier M. Lizana , Manuel Perez-Victoria