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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 prove that all tree-level amplitudes in pure (super-)gravity can be expressed as term-wise, gauge-invariant double-copies of those of pure (super-)Yang-Mills obtained via BCFW recursion. These representations are far from unique: varying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-07 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Nikhil Kalyanapuram , Kokkimidis Patatoukos , Michael Plesser , Yaqi Zhang

We discuss the soft behaviour of open string amplitudes with gluons and massive states in any dimension. Notwithstanding non-minimal couplings of massive higher spin states to gluons, relying on OPE and factorization, we argue that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Massimo Bianchi , Andrea L. Guerrieri

These notes were given as lectures at the CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings and Gauge Theory 2010. We describe the structure of scattering amplitudes in gauge theories, focussing on the maximally supersymmetric theory to highlight…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 J. M. Drummond

We prove that the MHV vertex expansion is valid for any NMHV tree amplitude of N=4 SYM. The proof uses induction to show that there always exists a complex deformation of three external momenta such that the amplitude falls off at least as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Henriette Elvang , Daniel Z. Freedman , Michael Kiermaier

We have calculated the high spin parton splitting amplitudes postulating the Yangian symmetry of the scattering amplitudes for tensorgluons. The resulting splitting amplitudes coincide with the earlier calculations, which were based on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-10 Roland Kirschner , George Savvidy

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

We use the twistor-string theory on the B-model of CP^{3|4} to compute the maximally helicity violating(MHV) tree amplitudes for conformal supergravitons. The correlator of a bilinear in the affine Kac-Moody current(Sugawara stress-energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Changhyun Ahn

The fragmentation functions and scattering amplitudes are investigated in the framework of light-front perturbation theory. It is demonstrated that, the factorization property of the fragmentation functions implies the recursion relations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Christian A. Cruz-Santiago , Anna M. Stasto

We present a prescription to calculate manifestly gauge invariant tree-level helicity amplitudes for arbitrary scattering processes with off-shell initial-state gluons within the kinematics of high-energy scattering. We show that it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-24 A. van Hameren , P. Kotko , K. Kutak

In N=4 super Yang-Mills spin chain, we compute reflection amplitudes of magnon bound-state off giant graviton. We first compute the reflection amplitude off Y=0 brane boundary and compare it with the scattering amplitude between two magnon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Changrim Ahn , Dongsu Bak , Soo-Jong Rey

We compute tree-level gluon amplitudes as worldline correlators of vertex operators in a bosonic spinning particle model. In this framework, the particle's position degrees of freedom are extended by complex bosonic variables that encode…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-08 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Roberto Bonezzi , Olindo Corradini , Filippo Fecit

We propose a quantum algorithm for computing the n-gluon maximally helicity violating (MHV) tree-level scattering amplitude. We revisit a newly proposed method for unitarisation of non-unitary operations and present how this implementation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-17 Erik Bashore , Stefano Moretti , Timea Vitos

We illustrate the use of new on-shell methods, 4-dimensional unitarity cuts combined with on-shell recursions relations, by computing the A_4^{(1)}(phi,1^-,2^-,3^+,4^+) amplitude in the large top mass limit where the Higgs boson couples to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. D. Badger , E. W. N. Glover , Kasper Risager

Motivated by the success of Hodges' momentum twistor variables in planar Yang-Mills, in this note we introduce a set of new variables, the S variables, which are tailored for gravity (or more generally for theories without color ordering).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-02 Yuxiang Gu

We compute amplitudes for the process $g^* g^* \to q \overline q V^*$ (two virtual gluons into a quark, antiquark and a boson) at the tree level using the spinor-helicity formalism. The resulting analytic expressions are much shorter than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 Jan Ferdyan , Błażej Ruba

We discuss the dRGT massive gravity interacting with spin-0, spin-1/2, or spin-1 matter. The effective theory of a massive spin-2 particle coupled to matter particles is constructed directly at the amplitude level. In this setting we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-07 Adam Falkowski , Giulia Isabella

We use the infrared consistency of one-loop amplitudes in N=4 Yang-Mills theory to derive a compact analytic formula for a tree-level NNMHV gluon scattering amplitude in QCD, the first such formula known. We argue that the IR conditions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Radu Roiban , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We study the application of recursion relations to the calculation of finite one-loop gravity amplitudes. It is shown explicitly that the known four, five, and six graviton one-loop amplitudes for which the external legs have identical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Andreas Brandhuber , Simon McNamara , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

In this paper, we explore the applicability of the BCFW-like recursion relations \cite{He:2018svj,Yang:2019esm} to a wider class of positive geometries. Previously it was found in \cite{Jagadale:2022rbl}, the tree level scattering amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Sujoy Mahato , Sourav Roychowdhury