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We demonstrate the universality of the gravitational classical deflection angle of massless particles through O(G^3) by studying the high-energy limit of full two-loop four-graviton scattering amplitudes in pure Einstein gravity as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-22 Zvi Bern , Harald Ita , Julio Parra-Martinez , Michael S. Ruf

The asymptotic behavior of the scattering amplitude for two scalar particles at high energies with fixed momentum transfers is studied. The study is done within the effective theory of quantum gravity based on quasi-potential equation. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Nguyen Suan Han , Do Thu Ha , Nguyen Nhu Xuan

Feynman amplitudes at higher orders in perturbation theory generically have complex singular structures. Notwithstanding the emergence of many powerful new methods, the presence of infrared divergences poses significant challenges for their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Charalampos Anastasiou , George Sterman

Splitting amplitudes govern the behavior of scattering amplitudes at the momenta of external legs become collinear. In this talk we outline the calculation of two-loop splitting amplitudes via the unitarity sewing method. This method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. J. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

We evaluate the four-closed-string scattering amplitude, using the Polyakov string path integral in the proper-time gauge. By identifying the Fock space representation of the four-closed-string-vertex, we obtain a field theoretic expression…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-18 Taejin Lee

We construct all supergravity theories that can be obtained through factorized orbifold projections of N=8 supergravity, exposing their double-copy structure, and calculate their one-loop four-point scattering amplitudes. We observe a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Marco Chiodaroli , Murat Gunaydin , Radu Roiban

Within the framework of Einstein-Cartan gravity we consider an action, containing up to quadratic terms of the Ricci scalar and the Holst invariant, coupled non-minimally to a scalar field, including couplings of its derivatives to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-19 Theodoros Katsoulas , Kyriakos Tamvakis

We perform a general computation of the off-shell one-loop divergences in Einstein gravity, in a two-parameter family of path integral measures, corresponding to different ways of parametrizing the graviton field, and a two-parameter family…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 N. Ohta , R. Percacci , A. D. Pereira

The decomposition of a one-loop scattering amplitude into elementary functions with rational coefficients introduces spurious singularities which afflict individual coefficients but cancel in the complete amplitude. These cancellations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 David C. Dunbar , James H. Ettle , Warren B. Perkins

We present and numerically implement a computational method to construct relativistic scattering amplitudes that obey analyticity, crossing, elastic and inelastic unitarity in three and four spacetime dimensions. The algorithm is based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-17 Piotr Tourkine , Alexander Zhiboedov

We calculate the inelastic $2\to3$ one-loop amplitude for the scattering of two point-like, spinless objects with generic masses involving the additional emission of a single graviton. We focus on the near-forward, or classical, limit. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-27 Alessandro Georgoudis , Carlo Heissenberg , Ingrid Vazquez-Holm

Recent computations of scattering amplitudes show that N=8 supergravity is surprisingly well behaved in the ultraviolet and may even be ultraviolet finite in perturbation theory. The novel cancellations necessary for ultraviolet finiteness…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Z. Bern , J. J. Carrasco , D. Forde , H. Ita , H. Johansson

We use the duality between color and kinematics to simplify the construction of the complete four-loop four-point amplitude of N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, including the nonplanar contributions. The duality completely determines the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-17 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , L. J. Dixon , H. Johansson , R. Roiban

We demonstrate that pure N=4 supergravity is ultraviolet divergent at four loops. The form of the divergence suggests that it is due to the rigid U(1) duality-symmetry anomaly of the theory. This is the first known example of an ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-16 Zvi Bern , Scott Davies , Tristan Dennen , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We study ultra-Planckian $2\to2$ scattering in an Abelian gauge theory coupled to agravity, the scale-free and renormalizable realization of quadratic quantum gravity. Focusing on charged fermions and scalars interacting with the photon and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-06 I. F. Cunha , A. C. Lehum

A covariant path integral calculation of the even spin structure contribution to the one-loop N-graviton scattering amplitude in the type-II superstring theory is presented. The apparent divergence of the $N=5$ amplitude is resolved by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Lee Montag

Recent progress in unitarity techniques for one-loop scattering amplitudes makes a numerical implementation of this method possible. We present a 4-dimensional unitarity method for calculating the cut-constructible part of amplitudes and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-17 R. K. Ellis , W. T. Giele , Z. Kunszt

We develop a general formalism for computing classical observables for relativistic scattering of spinning particles, directly from on-shell amplitudes. We then apply this formalism to minimally coupled Einstein-gravity amplitudes for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Ben Maybee , Donal O'Connell , Justin Vines

Scattering amplitudes mediated by graviton exchange display IR singularities in the forward limit. This obstructs standard application of positivity bounds based on twice subtracted dispersion relations. Such divergences can be cancelled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 M. Herrero-Valea , A. S. Koshelev , A. Tokareva

In this review we describe a non-trivial relationship between perturbative gauge theory and gravity scattering amplitudes. At the semi-classical or tree level, the scattering amplitudes of gravity theories in flat space can be expressed as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Zvi Bern