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In this review we discuss currents in celestial CFT and the consistency of their naive symmetry algebras. In particular we study in detail the Jacobi identity and the double residue condition for soft insertions, hard momentum space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-16 Adam Ball

One of the methods to calculate tree-level multi-gluon scattering amplitudes is to use the Berends-Giele recursion relation involving off-shell currents or off-shell amplitudes, if working in the light cone gauge. As shown in recent works…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Piotr Kotko , Mirko Serino , Anna M. Stasto

The dual formulations of an infinite tower of tree-level soft theorems in asymptotically flat spacetimes for scattering amplitudes in the standard energy-momentum basis and for correlators of a 2D celestial conformal field theory imply a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Daniele Pranzetti , Domenico Giuseppe Salluce

We derive soft theorems for on-shell scattering amplitudes from non-linearly realised global space-time symmetries, arising from the flat space and decoupling limits of the effective field theories (EFTs) of inflation, while taking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-14 Zong-Zhe Du

We start by constructing a conformally covariant improvement of the celestial light transform which keeps track of the mixing between incoming and outgoing states under finite Lorentz transformations in $\mathbb{R}^{2,2}$. We then compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Carmen Jorge-Diaz , Sabrina Pasterski , Atul Sharma

Conformal Field Theory in a Minkowski setting is discussed in an embedding space approach, paying special attention to causality constraints for four-point amplitudes. The physics of dilatation and Lorentz boost is emphasized in specifying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-12 Pulkit Agarwal , Richard C. Brower , Timothy G. Raben , Chung-I Tan

We introduce Mellin amplitudes for correlation functions of $k$ scalar operators and one operator with spin in conformal field theories (CFT) in general dimension. We show that Mellin amplitudes for scalar operators have simple poles with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-16 Vasco Gonçalves , João Penedones , Emilio Trevisani

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

Using BCFW on-shell recursion techniques, we prove a sequence of explicit n-point Kawai-Lewellen-Tye relations between gravity and Yang-Mills amplitudes at tree level.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Bo Feng , Thomas Sondergaard

It is shown how tree-level multi-gluon helicity amplitudes with an arbitrary number of off-shell external gluons can be calculated via BCFW recursion. Compact expressions for helicity amplitudes for scattering processes of three and four…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 A. van Hameren

We derive a universal soft theorem for every scattering amplitude with at least one massless particle in an arbitrary theory of scalars. Our results follow from the geometry of field space and are valid for any choice of mass spectrum,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Clifford Cheung , Andreas Helset , Julio Parra-Martinez

We present a simple derivation of MHV amplitudes in massless spinor and scalar electrodynamics. Working with permutationally invariant amplitudes, we show that they are fully determined by their soft photon behavior and admit a simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-23 Christoph Bartsch , Karol Kampf , David Podivín

Twistor ideas have led to a number of recent advances in our understanding of scattering amplitudes. Much of this work has been indirect, determining the twistor space support of scattering amplitudes by examining the amplitudes in momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Lionel Mason , David Skinner

Using the recently introduced recursion relations with covariant massive-massless shift, we study tree-level scattering amplitudes involving a pair of massive vector bosons and an arbitrary number of gluons in the massive spinor-helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Sourav Ballav , Arkajyoti Manna

We investigate the embedding formalism in conjunction with the Mellin transform to determine tree-level gluon amplitudes in AdS/CFT. Detailed computations of three to five-point correlators are conducted, ultimately distilling what were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-02 Jinwei Chu , Savan Kharel

Recently, new soft graviton theorem proposed by Cachazo and Strominger has inspired a lot of works. In this note, we use the KLT-formula to investigate the theorem. We have shown how the soft behavior of color ordered Yang-Mills amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Yi-Jian Du , Bo Feng , Chih-Hao Fu , Yihong Wang

In a recent paper, here referred to as part I, we considered the celestial four-gluon amplitude with one gluon represented by the shadow transform of the corresponding primary field operator. This correlator is ill-defined because it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

Differential equations are powerful tools in the study of correlation functions in conformal field theories (CFTs). Carrollian amplitudes behave as correlation functions of Carrollian CFT that holographically describes asymptotically flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-09 Romain Ruzziconi , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

We present new soft theorems for photon, gluon, and graviton correlators at tree level in (Anti)-de Sitter space. The results are derived by applying conformal Ward identities to constrain the structure of Witten diagrams.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-16 Jiajie Mei , Yuyu Mo

We construct tree-level amplitude for massive particles using on-shell recursion relations based on two classes of momentum shifts: an all-line transverse shift that deforms momentum by its transverse polarization vector, and a massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-14 Yohei Ema , Ting Gao , Wenqi Ke , Zhen Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu , Ishmam Mahbub