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We propose a recursion relation for tree-level scattering amplitudes in three-dimensional Chern-Simons-matter theories. The recursion relation involves a complex deformation of momenta which generalizes the BCFW-deformation used in higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Dongmin Gang , Yu-tin Huang , Eunkyung Koh , Sangmin Lee , Arthur E. Lipstein

We continue the study of open associahedra associated with bi-color scattering amplitudes initiated in arXiv:1912.08307. We focus on the facet geometries of the open associahedra, uncovering many new phenomena such as fiber-product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-23 Aidan Herderschee , Fei Teng

We derive general tree-level recursion relations for amplitudes which include massive propagating particles. As an illustration, we apply these recursion relations to scattering amplitudes of gluons coupled to massive scalars. We provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Badger , E. W. N. Glover , V. V. Khoze , P. Svrcek

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

This thesis describes some of the recent (and some less recent) developments in calculational techniques for scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory. The focus is on on-shell recursion relations in complex momenta and on the use of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-04-22 Kasper Risager

Recently, it has been shown that on-shell scattering amplitudes can be constructed by the Feynman-tree theorem combined with the BCFW recursion relations. Since the BCFW relations are restricted to tree diagrams, the preceding application…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-20 Markos Maniatis

We give a proof of BCFW recursion relations for all tree-level amplitudes of gravitons in General Relativity. The proof follows the same basic steps as in the BCFW construction and it is an extension of the one given for next-to-MHV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Paolo Benincasa , Camille Boucher-Veronneau , Freddy Cachazo

Scattering amplitudes of $\operatorname{tr}(\phi^3)$ theory can be encoded as the canonical form of the Stasheff associahedron. Similarly, the flat-space wavefunction coefficients of the same theory are captured by the recently proposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-17 Stefan Forcey , Ross Glew , Hyungrok Kim

The amplituhedron determines scattering amplitudes in planar ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills by a single "positive geometry" in the space of kinematic and loop variables. We study a closely related definition of the amplituhedron for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Johannes Henn , Jaroslav Trnka

Recently, by using the known structure of one-loop scattering amplitudes for gluons in Yang-Mills theory, a recursion relation for tree-level scattering amplitudes has been deduced. Here, we give a short and direct proof of this recursion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-07 Ruth Britto , Freddy Cachazo , Bo Feng , Edward Witten

We calculate gauge theory one-loop amplitudes with the aid of the complex shift used in the Britto-Cachazo-Feng-Witten (BCFW) recursion relations of tree amplitudes. We apply the shift to the integrand and show that the contribution from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Savan Kharel , George Siopsis

Recently it has been shown that in gauge theories amplitudes to any perturbation order can be obtained by glueing together simple three-point on-shell amplitudes. These three-point amplitudes in turn are fixed by locality and Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-04 M. Maniatis

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

In this note, we prove that the realization of associahedron discovered by Arkani-Hamed, Bai, He, and Yun (ABHY) is a positive geometry for tree-level S-matrix of scalars which have no color and which interact via cubic coupling. More in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-11 Mrunmay Jagadale , Alok Laddha

Recently two of the authors presented a spinorial extension of the scattering equations, the `polarized scattering equations' that incorporates spinor polarization data. These led to new worldsheet amplitude formulae for a variety of gauge,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Giulia Albonico , Yvonne Geyer , Lionel Mason

The tree amplituhedra $\mathcal{A}_{n,k}^{(m)}$ are mathematical objects generalising the notion of polytopes into the Grassmannian. Proposed for $m=4$ as a geometric construction encoding tree-level scattering amplitudes in planar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Matteo Parisi

We show how to apply the BCFW recursion relation to Feynman loop integrals with the help of the Feynman-tree theorem. We deconstruct in this way all Feynman diagrams in terms of on-shell subamplitudes. Every cut originating from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 M. Maniatis , C. M. Reyes

Recent years have seen a surprising connection between the physics of scattering amplitudes and a class of mathematical objects--the positive Grassmannian, positive loop Grassmannians, tree and loop Amplituhedra--which have been loosely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Yuntao Bai , Thomas Lam

In this paper we study the orthogonal momentum amplituhedron $\mathcal{O}_k$, a recently introduced positive geometry that encodes the tree-level scattering amplitudes in ABJM theory. We generate the full boundary stratification of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 Tomasz Lukowski , Robert Moerman , Jonah Stalknecht

In the gauge-theoretic formulation of gravity the cubic vertex becomes simple enough for some graviton scattering amplitudes to be computed using Berends-Giele-type recursion relations. We present such a computation for the current with all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-05 Gianluca Delfino , Kirill Krasnov , Carlos Scarinci