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In QCD, the amplitude for multiple soft gluon emissions has been shown to exhibit a form of coherence, wherein one-loop corrections are rendered IR finite by the transverse momentum of the real emissions. Using a sequence of soft-collinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Jeffrey Robert Forshaw , Jack Holguin , Aditya Pathak

The soft bootstrap program aims to construct consistent effective field theories (EFT's) by recursively imposing the desired soft limit on tree-level scattering amplitudes through on-shell recursion relations. A prime example is the leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-28 Ian Low , Zhewei Yin

This article studies methods to obtain relations for scattering amplitudes at the loop level, with concrete examples at one loop. These methods originate in the analysis of large so-called Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten shifts of tree level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Rutger H. Boels , Reinke Sven Isermann

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 show how to use the Bern-Kosower master formula, originally a generating functional for on-shell gluon matrix elements, to derive well-organized form factor decompositions of the off-shell one-particle-irreducible N - gluon vertices. Two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-28 Naser Ahmadiniaz , Christian Schubert

Recently, the Cachazo-He-Yuan (CHY) approach for calculating scattering amplitudes has been extended beyond tree level. In this paper, we introduce a way of constructing CHY integrands for $\Phi^3$ theory up to two loops from holomorphic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Humberto Gomez , Sebastian Mizera , Guojun Zhang

Soft-gluon resummation within the framework of heavy quarkonium hadroproduction is considered. A few selected cases are studied in detail. A sizeable increase of the cross sections with respect to the next-to-leading order predictions with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Matteo Cacciari

Worldline techniques are employed to study the general behaviour of the fermion-fermion collision amplitude at very high energies in a non-abelian gauge field theory for the forward and fixed angle scattering cases. A central objective of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. I. Karanikas , C. N. Ktorides

We present a computation of the global soft function for single-inclusive hadronic jet production at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling constant involving four light-like Wilson lines. Our soft function belongs to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Yaroslav Balytskyi , Jianbo Gao

We study soft theorems at one loop in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory through finite order in the infrared regulator and to subleading order in the soft parameter {\delta}. In particular, we derive a universal constraint from dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Andreas Brandhuber , Edward Hughes , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

We examine soft gluon physics, focusing on recently developed path integral methods. Two example applications of this technique are presented, namely the classification of soft gluon amplitudes beyond the eikonal approximation, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-20 Chris D. White

We describe a new approach to understanding the origins of recently discovered "hidden zeros" and "smooth splitting" of tree-level amplitudes in $\text{Tr}\phi^3$, Non-Linear Sigma Model (NLSM), Yang-Mill-Scalar (YMS) and the special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Callum R. T. Jones , Shruti Paranjape

In this work, we study the local zeta functions of Calabi-Yau fourfolds. This is done by developing arithmetic deformation techniques to compute the factor of the zeta function that is attributed to the horizontal four-form cohomology.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-15 Hans Jockers , Sören Kotlewski , Pyry Kuusela

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

This chapter introduces the foundational elements of scattering amplitudes. It is meant to be accessible to readers with only a basic understanding of quantum field theory. Topics covered include: the four-dimensional spinor-helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-10 Andreas Brandhuber , Jan Plefka , Gabriele Travaglini

We describe the hexagon function bootstrap for solving for six-gluon scattering amplitudes in the large $N_c$ limit of ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. In this method, an ansatz for the finite part of these amplitudes is constrained at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-28 Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Claude Duhr , Matt von Hippel , Jeffrey Pennington

I derive a class of functions unifying all singular limits for the emission of a given number of soft or collinear gluons in tree-level gauge-theory amplitudes. Each function is a generalization of the single-emission antenna function of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 David A. Kosower

We describe a chiral formalism for processes involving both energetic hadrons and soft Goldstone bosons, which extends the application of soft-collinear effective theory to multibody B decays. The nonfactorizable helicity amplitudes for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 Benjamin Grinstein , Dan Pirjol

We extend the AdS/CFT prescription of Alday and Maldacena to finite temperature $T$, defining the amplitude for gluon scattering in ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills at strong coupling from string theory. It is defined by a lightlike ''Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Katsushi Ito , Horatiu Nastase , Koh Iwasaki

We present a framework that resums threshold enhanced large logarithms to all orders in perturbation theory for the production of a pair of leptons in Drell-Yan process and of Higgs boson in gluon fusion as well as in bottom quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-31 A. H. Ajjath , Pooja Mukherjee , V. Ravindran