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Motivated by recent progress in the high-energy description of gravitational scattering, we develop a systematic Regge-theory framework for $2\to2+n$ amplitudes describing the scattering of two massive particles with $n$ graviton emissions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Francesco Alessio , Vittorio Del Duca , Riccardo Gonzo , Emanuele Rosi

We recursively construct tree-level electromagnetic and gravitational Compton amplitudes of higher-spin massive particles by the all-line transverse momentum shift. With three-point amplitude as input, we demonstrate that higher-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-04 Yohei Ema , Ting Gao , Wenqi Ke , Zhen Liu , Ishmam Mahbub

We analyze the validity of BCFW recursion relations for currents of n - 2 gluons and two massive quarks, where one of the quarks is off shell and the remaining particles are on shell. These currents are gauge-dependent and can be used as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-07 Ruth Britto , Alexander Ochirov

We construct a modified on-shell BCFW recursion relation to derive compact analytic representations of tree-level amplitudes in QED. As an application, we study the amplitudes of a fermion pair coupling to an arbitrary number of photons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Simon Badger , Johannes M. Henn

We complete the generalisation of the BCFW recursion relation to the off-shell case, allowing for the computation of tree level scattering amplitudes for full High Energy Factorisation (HEF), i.e. with both incoming partons having a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-03 Andreas van Hameren , Krzysztof Kutak , Mirko Serino

In this paper we define a new object, the momentum amplituhedron, which is the long sought-after positive geometry for tree-level scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory in spinor helicity space. Inspired by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 David Damgaard , Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Matteo Parisi

A remarkable connection between BCFW recursion relations and constraints on the S-matrix was made by Benincasa and Cachazo in 0705.4305, who noted that mutual consistency of different BCFW constructions of four-particle amplitudes generates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-04 Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

In gauge theories, contact terms play an important role in ensuring gauge invariance. In the spinor helicity formalism, the choice of a gauge-fixing condition manifests itself in the form of the choice of reference vector to write the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-17 Aakash Kumar , Arnab Rudra , Rahul Shaw

As a simple example of how recently developed on-shell techniques apply to nonlocal theories, we study the S-matrix of noncommutative gauge theories. In the complex plane, this S-matrix has essential singularities that signal the nonlocal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-09 Suvrat Raju

In this paper we focus on scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and define a long sought-after geometry, the loop momentum amplituhedron, which we conjecture to encode tree and (the integrands of) loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski

We develop a formalism for describing the most general notion of tree-level scattering amplitudes in 4d conformal higher spin theory. As conformal higher spin fields obey higher-derivative equations of motion, there are many distinct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-13 Tim Adamo , Simon Nakach , Arkady A. Tseytlin

Scattering amplitudes of massless particles in Minkowski space can be expressed in a conformal basis by Mellin transforming the momentum space amplitudes to correlation functions on the celestial sphere at null infinity. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Soner Albayrak , Chandramouli Chowdhury , Savan Kharel

Beyond standard model (BSM) particles should be included in effective field theory in order to compute the scattering amplitudes involving these extra particles. We formulate an extension of Higgs effective field theory which contains…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Ryo Nagai , Masaharu Tanabashi , Koji Tsumura , Yoshiki Uchida

It was proposed in hep-th/0403047 that all tree amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theory can be constructed from known MHV amplitudes. We apply this approach for calculating tree amplitudes of gauge fields and fermions and find agreement with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 George Georgiou , Valentin V. Khoze

We develop a spinor helicity formalism for five-dimensional scattering amplitudes of any mass and spin configuration. While five-dimensional spinor helicity variables have been previously studied in the context of N=2,4 supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-16 Andrzej Pokraka , Smita Rajan , Lecheng Ren , Anastasia Volovich , W. Wayne Zhao

We review the extension of modern techniques for the calculation of helicity amplitudes in QCD to massive particles. The focus is on the use of supersymmetric Ward identites that relate amplitudes with massive quarks to those with massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rutger Boels , Christian Schwinn , Stefan Weinzierl

We give a comprehensive review of recent developments on using the pure spinor formalism to compute massless superstring scattering amplitudes at tree level. The main results of the pure spinor computations are placed into the context of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

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 paper, we investigate tree-level scattering amplitude relations in $U(N)$ non-linear sigma model. We use Cayley parametrization. As was shown in the recent works [23,24] both on-shell amplitudes and off-shell currents with odd…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Gang Chen , Yi-Jian Du

Combining the Berends-Giele and on-shell recursion relations we obtain an extremely compact expression for the scattering amplitude of a complex scalar-antiscalar pair and an arbitrary number of positive helicity gluons. This is one of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-22 Paola Ferrario , German Rodrigo , Pere Talavera