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Investigations of high-energy graviton-graviton and gluon-gluon scattering are performed in the leading eikonal approximation for the kinematic regime of large center of mass energy and low momentum transfer. We find a double copy relation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Ryo Saotome , Ratindranath Akhoury

The double copy relates scattering amplitudes in gauge and gravity theories. It has also been extended to classical solutions, and a number of approaches have been developed for doing so. One of these involves expressing fields in a variety…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Andres Luna , Silvia Nagy , Chris White

We propose and study a BCJ double-copy of massive particles, showing that it is equivalent to a KLT formula with a kernel given by the inverse of a matrix of massive bi-adjoint scalar amplitudes. For models with a uniform non-zero mass…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Laura A. Johnson , Callum R. T. Jones , Shruti Paranjape

The double copy is a remarkable relationship between gauge theory and gravity that has been explored in a number of contexts, most notably scattering amplitudes and classical solutions. The convolutional double copy provides a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Qiuyue Liang , Silvia Nagy

The double copy is by now a well-established relationship between scattering amplitudes and classical solutions in gauge and gravity (field) theories, and is itself inspired by amplitude relations in string theory. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 Riccardo Morieri , Igor Pesando , Michael L. Reichenberg Ashby , Chris D. White

The double copy relates gauge and gravitational theories, with widespread application to quantum scattering amplitudes and classical perturbative results. It also connects exact classical solutions of Abelian gauge and gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Brian Kent , Aaron Zimmerman

We construct the gravitational theory emerging from the double-copy of massive scalar quantum chromodynamics in general dimensions. The resulting two-form-dilaton-gravity theory couples to flavored massive scalars gravitationally and via…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Jan Plefka , Canxin Shi , Tianheng Wang

Recently, an intriguing relationship (the "double copy") has been discovered between theories like electromagnetism, and gravity. This potentially gives us a new way to think about gravity, and there are also practical applications…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-03 Chris D. White

Color-kinematics duality in the adjoint has proven key to the relationship between gauge and gravity theory scattering amplitude predictions. In recent work, we demonstrated that at four-point tree-level, a small number of color-dual EFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-14 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Laurentiu Rodina , Suna Zekioglu

Recent explorations on how to construct a double copy of massive gauge fields have shown that, while any amplitude can be written in a form consistent with colour-kinematics duality, the double copy is generically unphysical. In this paper,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-13 Mariana Carrillo González , Arshia Momeni , Justinas Rumbutis

Inspired by the recent progress in the field of scattering amplitudes, we discuss hypothetical particles which can be characterised as the double copies of fermions -- in the same way gravitons can be viewed as double copies of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Leonardo de la Cruz , Alexander Kniss , Stefan Weinzierl

The double copy procedure relates gauge and gravity theories through color-kinematics replacements and holds for both scattering amplitudes and in classical contexts. Moreover, it has been shown that there is a web of theories whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Mariana Carrillo-Gonzalez , Riccardo Penco , Mark Trodden

Color-kinematics (CK) duality is a remarkable symmetry of gluon amplitudes that is the key to the double copy which links gauge theory and gravity amplitudes. Here we show that the complete Yang-Mills action itself, including its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-23 Leron Borsten , Branislav Jurco , Hyungrok Kim , Tommaso Macrelli , Christian Saemann , Martin Wolf

The double copy relates scattering amplitudes in gauge and gravity theories, and has also been extended to classical solutions. In this paper, we study solutions in three spacetime dimensions, where the double copy may be expected to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-02 Mariana Carrillo González , Brandon Melcher , Kenneth Ratliff , Scott Watson , Chris D. White

We show how to double-copy Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) to Heavy Black Hole Effective Theory (HBET) for spin $s\leq 1$. In particular, the double copy of spin-$s$ HQET with scalar QCD produces spin-$s$ HBET, while the double copy of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 Kays Haddad , Andreas Helset

Using the principles of the modern scattering amplitudes programme, we develop a formalism for constructing the amplitudes of three-dimensional topologically massive gauge theories and gravity. Inspired by recent developments in four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-16 Nathan Moynihan

The double copy is, in essence, a map between scattering amplitudes in a broad variety of familiar field and string theories. In addition to the mathematically rich intrinsic structure, it underlies a multitude of active research directions…

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 extend a previously developed approach to relate thermal currents in the high temperature regime and classical limits of amplitudes. We consider the bi-adjoint scalar theory, which has the basic structure of a cubic theory and which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Leonardo de la Cruz

Celestial amplitudes which use conformal primary wavefunctions rather than plane waves as external states offer a novel opportunity to study properties of amplitudes with manifest conformal covariance and give insight into a potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Eduardo Casali , Andrea Puhm