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We find that unitarity cuts and the duality between color and kinematics are sufficient constraints to bootstrap $D$-dimensional QCD scattering amplitudes starting from three-particle tree-level. Specifically, we calculate tree level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-25 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Aslan Seifi

We investigate color-kinematics duality for gauge-theory amplitudes produced by the pure nonabelian Yang-Mills action deformed by higher-dimension operators. For the operator denoted by F^3, the product of three field strengths, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-24 Johannes Broedel , Lance J. Dixon

Recently a powerful duality between color and kinematics has been proposed for integrands of scattering amplitudes in quite general gauge theories. In this paper the duality proposal is extended to the more general class of gauge theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Rutger H. Boels , Bernd A. Kniehl , Oleg V. Tarasov , Gang Yang

The double copy relationship between Yang-Mills theory and general relativity can be stated in terms of a field theory Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) momentum kernel, which maps two colour-ordered gluon amplitudes to a graviton amplitude at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-21 Tim Adamo , Sonja Klisch

Conventional Lagrangian formulations of gauge and gravity theories emphasize compactness and off-shell symmetry. This often obscures the structure of on-shell physical observables. In this work, we present a constructive framework that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-20 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Suna Zekioglu

We explore consequences of the recently discovered duality between color and kinematics, which states that kinematic numerators in a diagrammatic expansion of gauge-theory amplitudes can be arranged to satisfy Jacobi-like identities in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Zvi Bern , Tristan Dennen , Yu-tin Huang , Michael Kiermaier

We clarify the relation between the classical double copy and the double copy for amplitudes in the setting of selfdual gauge and gravity theories. To this end we construct explicit all-order perturbative solutions in these theories and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-21 Joris Raeymaekers

This review describes the duality between color and kinematics and its applications, with the aim of gaining a deeper understanding of the perturbative structure of gauge and gravity theories. We emphasize, in particular, applications to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-05 Zvi Bern , John Joseph Carrasco , Marco Chiodaroli , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban

In flat space, the color/kinematics duality states that perturbative Yang-Mills amplitudes can be written in such a way that kinematic numerators obey the same Jacobi relations as their color factors. This remarkable duality implies BCJ…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-17 Connor Armstrong , Arthur E. Lipstein , Jiajie Mei

We obtain the detailed Feynman rules for perturbative gauge theory on a fixed Yang-Mills plane wave background. Using these rules, the tree-level 4-point gluon amplitude is computed and some 1-loop Feynman diagrams are considered. As an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Tim Adamo , Eduardo Casali , Lionel Mason , Stefan Nekovar

Color/kinematics duality and the double-copy construction have proved to be systematic tools for gaining new insight into gravitational theories. Extending our earlier work, in this paper we introduce new double-copy constructions for large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-25 Marco Chiodaroli , Murat Gunaydin , Henrik Johansson , Radu Roiban

We study the duality between color and kinematics for the Sudakov form factors of ${\rm tr}(F^2)$ in non-supersymmetric pure Yang-Mills theory. We construct the integrands that manifest the color-kinematics duality up to two loops. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Zeyu Li , Gang Yang , Jinxuan Zhang

The Bern-Carrasco-Johansson (BCJ) double-copy construction reveals a fundamental structural connection between gauge and gravity theories. At its core, the BCJ double copy is directly due to a duality between the algebraic relations of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-16 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Sai Sasank Chava , Alex Edison , Eliseu Kloster , Suna Zekioğlu

We investigate tree-level five-point amplitudes in scalar-QCD expressed in terms of Sudakov variables and find the equivalent "gravitational" counterparts using the color-kinematics duality proposed by Bern, Carrasco, and Johannson. Taking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-29 Agustin Sabio Vera , Eduardo Serna Campillo , Miguel A. Vazquez-Mozo

We construct a simple Lorentz-invariant action for maximally supersymmetric self-dual Yang-Mills theory that manifests colour-kinematics duality. We also show that this action double copies to a known action for maximally supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-28 Leron Borsten , Branislav Jurco , Hyungrok Kim , Tommaso Macrelli , Christian Saemann , Martin Wolf

We explore color-kinematic duality for tree-level AdS/CFT correlators in momentum space. We start by studying the bi-adjoint scalar in AdS at tree-level as an illustrative example. We follow this by investigating two forms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-14 Soner Albayrak , Savan Kharel , David Meltzer

Recently a duality between color and kinematics has been proposed, exposing a new unexpected structure in gauge theory and gravity scattering amplitudes. Here we propose that the relation goes deeper, allowing us to reorganize amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Zvi Bern , Tristan Dennen

Using the ambitwistor string, we compute tree-level celestial amplitudes for biadjoint scalars, Yang-Mills and gravity to all multiplicities. They are presented in compact CHY-like formulas with operator-valued scattering equations and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Eduardo Casali , Atul Sharma

We review the recently discovered duality between color and kinematics in gauge theories. This duality leads to a remarkably simple double-copy relation between diagrammatic numerators of gravity scattering amplitudes and gauge-theory ones.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-13 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , H. Johansson

Color-factor symmetry is used to derive a KLT-type relation for tree-level QCD amplitudes containing gluons and an arbitrary number of massive or massless quark-antiquark pairs, generalizing the expression for Yang-Mills amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Robert W. Brown , Stephen G. Naculich