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We study celestial amplitudes in (super) Yang-Mills theory using a parameterisation of the spinor helicity variables where their overall phase is not fixed by the little group action. In this approach the spin constraint $h-\bar{h}=J$ for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-26 Andreas Brandhuber , Graham R. Brown , Joshua Gowdy , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

The conjectured duality relating all-loop leading singularities of n-particle N^(k-2)MHV scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM to a simple contour integral over the Grassmannian G(k,n) makes all the symmetries of the theory manifest. Every…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Jacob Bourjaily , Freddy Cachazo , Jaroslav Trnka

We further develop celestial Mellin amplitudes arXiv:2412.11992 to capture the exchange of particles with spin. For massless external scalar fields, we derive closed-form celestial Mellin amplitudes for a spin-1 and spin-2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-13 Sébastien Malherbe , Paolo Pergola , Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

We investigate MHV tree-level gravity amplitudes as defined on the spinor-helicity variety. Unlike their gluon counterparts, the gravity amplitudes do not have logarithmic singularities and do not admit Amplituhedron-like construction.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Joris Koefler , Umut Oktem , Shruti Paranjape , Jaroslav Trnka , Bailee Zacovic

The operator product expansion (OPE) on the celestial sphere of conformal primary gluons and gravitons is studied. Asymptotic symmetries imply recursion relations between products of operators whose conformal weights differ by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-28 Monica Pate , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger , Ellis Ye Yuan

We present an ansatz for all one-loop amplitudes in pure Einstein gravity for which the n external gravitons have the same outgoing helicity. These loop amplitudes, which are rational functions of the momenta, also arise in the quantization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , M. Perelstein , J. S. Rozowsky

We elaborate the two-fold simplex-like structures of tree amplitudes in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills (N=4 SYM), through its connection to a mathematical structure known as the positive Grassmannian. Exploiting the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-23 Junjie Rao

The 4D 4-point scattering amplitude of massless scalars via a massive exchange is expressed in a basis of conformal primary particle wavefunctions. This celestial amplitude is expanded in a basis of 2D conformal partial waves on the unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Alexander Atanasov , Walker Melton , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger

We present new relations for scattering amplitudes of color ordered gluons, massive quarks and scalars minimally coupled to gravity. Tree-level amplitudes of arbitrary matter and gluon multiplicities involving one graviton are reduced to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Jan Plefka , Wadim Wormsbecher

We compute the operator product expansions of gluons and gravitons in celestial CFT from the worldsheet OPE of vertex operators of four-dimensional ambitwistor string theories. Remarkably, the worldsheet OPE localizes on the short-distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Tim Adamo , Wei Bu , Eduardo Casali , Atul Sharma

Inspired by the idea of viewing amplitudes in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM as differential forms on momentum twistor space, we introduce differential forms on the space of spinor variables, which combine helicity amplitudes in any four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Song He , Chi Zhang

We revisit the prescription commonly used to define holographic correlators on the celestial sphere of Minkowski space as an integral transform of flat space scattering amplitudes, known as celestial amplitudes. We propose a resolution to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-23 Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

Massive spinor-helicity variables in four dimensions are a useful tool for studying amplitudes between higher-spin fields and gravitons. Among them a special, simple set of amplitudes reproduces the linearized stress-energy tensor of a Kerr…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Lucile Cangemi , Iustin Surubaru

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

Celestial holography has led to the discovery of new symmetry algebras arising from the study of collinear limits of perturbative gravity amplitudes in flat space. We explain from the twistor perspective how a non-vanishing cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-28 Roland Bittleston , Giuseppe Bogna , Simon Heuveline , Adam Kmec , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

In celestial holography, the massive and massless scalars in 4d space-time are represented by the Fourier transform of the bulk-to-boundary propagators and the Mellin transform of plane waves respectively. Recently, the 3pt celestial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-24 Wei Fan

We elaborate on a new recursive method proposed in arXiv:2312.15484 for computing tree-level $n$-point supergluon amplitudes as well as those with one gluon, i.e., spinning amplitudes, in ${\rm AdS}_5 \times S^3$. We present an improved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-23 Qu Cao , Song He , Xiang Li , Yichao Tang

In this paper, we first study the consequence of spacetime translations and Lorentz transformations on Celestial CFT OPEs. Working with the light transforms of the operators belonging to the modified Mellin basis, we found that the leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Sourish Banerjee , Rudranil Basu , Sayali Atul Bhatkar

The simplification and reorganization of complex expressions lies at the core of scientific progress, particularly in theoretical high-energy physics. This work explores the application of machine learning to a particular facet of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-05 Clifford Cheung , Aurélien Dersy , Matthew D. Schwartz

In a recent paper, Witten proposed a surprising connection between perturbative gauge theory and a certain topological model in twistor space. In particular, he showed that gluon amplitudes are localized on holomorphic curves. In this note…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Simone Giombi , Riccardo Ricci , Daniel Robles-Llana , Diego Trancanelli