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We evaluate one-loop finite-time amplitudes for graviton scattering in Matrix theory and compare to the corresponding amplitudes in supergravity. We find agreement for arbitrary time intervals at leading order in distance, providing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Oyvind Tafjord , Vipul Periwal

This paper investigates how tree-level amplitudes with massless quarks, gluons and/or massless scalars transforming under a single copy of the gauge group can be expressed in the context of the scattering equations as a sum over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-04 Stefan Weinzierl

We compute tree-level $n$-point scattering amplitudes in scalar field theories in terms of geometric invariants on a fibre bundle. All 0- and 2-derivative interactions are incorporated into a metric on this bundle. The on-shell amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 Mohammad Alminawi , Ilaria Brivio , Joe Davighi

Some time ago the general tree-level scattering amplitudes of N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory were expressed as certain Grassmannian contour integrals. These remarkable formulas allow to clearly expose the super-conformal, dual super-conformal,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Matthias Staudacher

We give a proof by direct computation that at tree level, the twistor-like superstring theory in the pure spinor formalism proposed very recently by Berkovits describes ten-dimensional N=1 super Yang-Mills in its heterotic version, and type…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-02 Humberto Gomez , Ellis Ye Yuan

We show that the tree-level spectrum of heavy particles can be directly extracted from the Wilson coefficients of the corresponding effective field theory at low energies. This procedure is exact when the number of resonances is finite, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-20 Francesco Calisto , Clifford Cheung , Grant N. Remmen , Francesco Sciotti , Michele Tarquini

We investigate the space of consistent tree-level extensions of the maximal supergravities in ten dimensions. We parametrize theory space by the first few EFT coefficients and by the on-shell coupling of the lightest massive state, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-07 Jan Albert , Waltraut Knop , Leonardo Rastelli

We present a new formula for all single trace tree amplitudes in four dimensional super Yang-Mills coupled to Einstein supergravity. Like the Cachazo-He-Yuan formula, our expression is supported on solutions of the scattering equations, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Tim Adamo , Eduardo Casali , Kai A. Roehrig , David Skinner

The BCFW recursion relations provide a powerful way to compute tree amplitudes in gauge theories and gravity, but only hold if some amplitudes vanish when two of the momenta are taken to infinity in a particular complex direction. This is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jared Kaplan

In the formulation of Cachazo, He, and Yuan, tree-level amplitudes for massless particles in gauge theory and gravity can be expressed as rational functions of the Lorentz invariants $k_a \cdot k_b$, $\epsilon_a \cdot k_b$, and $\epsilon_a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Stephen G. Naculich

In order to check the definite amplitude and the exact zero result of the amplitude of three massless points $(CAA)$ in both string theory and field theory side for $p=n$ case and to find all gauge field couplings to R-R closed string, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-26 Ehsan Hatefi

We present a generalized unitarity method for theories of point-particle worldlines coupled to gravity, analogous to that of scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory. This method allows the computation of perturbative observables from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Vincent F. He , Julio Parra-Martinez

We construct an expression for the n-point one-loop graviton scattering amplitude with a single negative helicity external leg using an augmented recursion technique. We analyse the soft-limits of these amplitudes and demonstrate that they…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Sam D. Alston , David C. Dunbar , Warren B. Perkins

High energy fixed angle scattering is studied in matrix string theory. The saddle point world sheet configurations, which give the dominant contributions to the string theory amplitude, are taken as classical backgrounds in matrix string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas Wynter

We find the complete set of conditions satisfied by the forward $2\to2$ scattering amplitude in unitarity and causal theories. These are based on an infinite set of energy dependent quantities -- the arcs -- which are dispersively expressed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-12 Brando Bellazzini , Joan Elias Miró , Riccardo Rattazzi , Marc Riembau , Francesco Riva

In this short note, we propose an algorithm based on the expansions of amplitudes, the dimensional reduction technic and the differential operators, to calculate the tree level scalar-graviton amplitudes with two massive scalars, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou , Guo-Jun Zhou

The EFT coefficients in any gapped, scalar, Lorentz invariant field theory must satisfy positivity requirements if there is to exist a local, analytic Wilsonian UV completion. We apply these bounds to the tree level scattering amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Claudia de Rham , Scott Melville , Andrew J. Tolley , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We investigate the ultraviolet (UV) behavior of two-scalar elastic scattering with graviton exchanges in higher curvature gravity theory. In the Einstein gravity, matter scattering is shown not to satisfy tree unitarity at high energy.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Yugo Abe , Takeo Inami , Keisuke Izumi , Tomotaka Kitamura

We exploit the tree level bosonic 4-particle scattering amplitudes in D=11 supergravity to construct the bosonic part of a linearized supersymmetry-, coordinate- and gauge-invariant. By differentiation, this invariant can be promoted to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Domenico Seminara

We calculate the genus-one three- and four-point amplitudes in the 2+2 dimensional closed N=(2,2) worldsheet supersymmetric string within the RNS formulation. Vertex operators are redefined with the incorporation of spinor helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Gordon Chalmers , Olaf Lechtenfeld , Bernd Niemeyer