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We provide a new set of on-shell recursion relations for tree-level scattering amplitudes, which are valid for any non-trivial theory of massless particles. In particular, we reconstruct the scattering amplitudes from (a subset of) their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Paolo Benincasa , Eduardo Conde

The standard unitarity-cut method is applied to several massive two-dimensional models, including the world-sheet AdS$_5\times S^5$ superstring, to compute $2\to 2$ scattering S-matrices at one loop from tree level amplitudes. Evidence is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-03 Valentina Forini , Lorenzo Bianchi , Ben Hoare

We show that the Veneziano amplitude of string theory is the unique solution to an analytically solvable bootstrap problem. Uniqueness follows from two assumptions: faster than power-law falloff in high-energy scattering and the existence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-10 Clifford Cheung , Aaron Hillman , Grant N. Remmen

We consider the gravitational scattering of point particles in four dimensions, at Planckian centre of mass energy and low momentum transfer, or the eikonal approximation. The scattering amplitude can be exactly computed by modelling point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Saurya Das , Arundhati Dasgupta , P. Ramadevi , Tapobrata Sarkar

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 address the scattering problem in two-dimensional integrable models, focusing on the sine-Gordon theory. We use the S-matrix bootstrap approach based on analytical properties of the S-matrix to compute scattering amplitudes of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-29 Valeriia Stolbova

In this paper, we present a simple and iterative algorithm that computes Anti-de Sitter space scattering amplitudes. We focus on the vector correlators in AdS in four dimensions in momentum space. These new combinatorial relations will…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-24 Soner Albayrak , Chandramouli Chowdhury , Savan Kharel

``Vectorial'' numerical algorithms are proposed for solving the inverse and direct spectral scattering problems for the nonlinear vector Schroedinger equation, taking into account wave polarization, known as the Manakov system. It is shown…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-06-09 Leonid L. Frumin

We develop a dynamical formulation of one-dimensional scattering theory where the reflection and transmission amplitudes for a general, possibly complex and energy-dependent, scattering potential are given as solutions of a set of dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ali Mostafazadeh

We show that the Mellin transform of an $n$-point tree level MHV gluon scattering amplitude, also known as the celestial amplitude in pure Yang-Mills theory, satisfies a system of $(n-2)$ linear first order partial differential equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh

We describe a new set of public, self-contained, and versatile computational tools for the investigation, manipulation, and evaluation of tree-level amplitudes in pure (super)Yang-Mills and (super)Gravity, $\phi^p$-scalar field theory, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily

We propose a numerical method to approximate the scattering amplitudes for the elasticity system with a non-constant matrix potential in dimensions $d=2$ and $3$. This requires to approximate first the scattering field, for some incident…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Juan A. Barceló , Carlos Castro

As part of the Snowmass community planning exercise, we highlight an ongoing program of research into the structure of scattering amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, particularly in the planar limit of a large number of colors. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-22 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Lance J. Dixon , Andrew J. McLeod , Marcus Spradlin , Jaroslav Trnka , Anastasia Volovich

We show how one-loop corrections to scattering amplitudes of scalars and gauge bosons can be obtained from tree amplitudes in one higher dimension. Starting with a complete tree-level scattering amplitude of n+2 particles in five…

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We provide a systematic method to compute tree-level scattering amplitudes with spinning external states from amplitudes with scalar external states in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. We write down analytic answers for various scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-23 Mahesh KN Balasubramanian , Raj Patil , Arnab Rudra

We propose a new, twistor string theory inspired formalism to calculate loop amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. In this approach, maximal helicity violating (MHV) tree amplitudes of N=4 super Yang-Mills are used as vertices, using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

We study cluster perturbation theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{84}, 522 (2000)] when auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo method is used for solving the cluster hamiltonian. As a case study, we calculate the spectral functions of the Hubbard…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Fei Lin , Erik S. Sorensen , Catherine Kallin , A. John Berlinsky

Motivated by the limited interaction between the mathematical physics community and theoretical physicists - particularly in high-energy theory - we present a computation that is typically the first example in QFT courses but, to our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 H. A. C. Grande , J. C. A Barata

We formulate new integration rules for one-loop scattering equations analogous to those at tree-level, and test them in a number of non-trivial cases for amplitudes in scalar $\phi^3$-theory. This formalism greatly facilitates the…

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