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We present a prescription for computing tree-level scattering amplitudes in 10D super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory using the pure spinor worldline formalism. The pure spinor formalism has proven to be a powerful framework for studying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Max Guillen , Marcelo dos Santos , Eggon Viana

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

We are still learning intriguing new facets of the string theory motivated Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) relations linking products of amplitudes in Yang-Mills theories and amplitudes in gravity. This is very clearly displayed in computations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-12 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Pierre Vanhove

Gauge theory amplitudes in a non-helicity format are generated at all $n$-point and at tree level. These amplitudes inherit structure from $\phi^3$ classical scattering, and the string inspired formalism is used to find the tensor algebra.…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gordon Chalmers

Using the CHY-formalism and its extension to a double cover we provide covariant expressions for tree-level amplitudes with two massive scalar legs and an arbitrary number of gravitons in D dimensions. Using unitarity methods, such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Andrea Cristofoli , Poul H. Damgaard , Humberto Gomez

We expose simple and practical relations between the integrated four- and five-point one-loop amplitudes of N >= 4 supergravity and the corresponding (super-)Yang-Mills amplitudes. The link between the amplitudes is simply understood using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Z. Bern , C. Boucher-Veronneau , H. Johansson

In this paper, we study the tree amplitudes with gluons coupled to gravitons. We first study the relations among the mixed amplitudes. With BCFW on-shell recursion relation, we will show the color-order reversed relation, $U(1)$-decoupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 Yi-Xin Chen , Yi-Jian Du , Bo Feng

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

We present a double copy relation in AdS$_5$ which relates tree-level four-point amplitudes of supergravity, super Yang-Mills and bi-adjoint scalars.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Xinan Zhou

We review techniques for more efficient computation of perturbative scattering amplitudes in gauge theory, in particular tree and one-loop multi-parton amplitudes in QCD. We emphasize the advantages of (1) using color and helicity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 L. Dixon

Scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory can be represented in the formalism of Cachazo, He and Yuan (CHY) as integrals over an auxiliary projective space---fully localized on the support of the scattering equations. Because solving the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Jacob L. Bourjaily , Poul H. Damgaard , Bo Feng

In this paper, we generalize the Nguyen-Spradlin-Volovich-Wen (NSVW) tree formula from the MHV sector to any helicity sector. We find a close connection between the Permutohedron and the KLT relation, and construct a non-trivial mapping…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Qu Cao , Liang Zhang

Using the pure spinor formalism in part I [1] we compute the complete tree-level amplitude of N massless open strings and find a striking simple and compact form in terms of minimal building blocks: the full N-point amplitude is expressed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-15 Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer , Stephan Stieberger

Color-ordered amplitudes in gauge theories satisfy non-linear identities involving amplitude products of different helicity configurations. We consider the origin of such identities and connect them to the Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) relations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-20 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Bo Feng , Thomas Sondergaard

Carrollian amplitudes are scattering amplitudes of massless particles written in position space at null infinity. We study various aspects of Carrollian amplitudes for gauge theory and gravity at loop level using primarily the modified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Vijay Nenmeli , Bin Zhu

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

The naive double-copy of (multi) loop amplitudes involving massive matter coupled to gauge theories will generically produce amplitudes in a gravitational theory that contains additional contributions from propagating antisymmetric tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-01 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Ingrid A. Vazquez-Holm

In this short note, we prove the supersymmetric Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) relations between N=8 supergravity (SUGRA) and N=4 super Yang-Mills (SYM) tree-level amplitudes in the frame of S-matrix program, especially we do not use string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Bo Feng , Song He

Recently, Bern, Carrasco and Johansson conjectured dual identities inside the gluon tree scattering amplitudes. In this paper, we use the properties of the heterotic string and open string tree scattering amplitudes to refine and derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-21 S. -H. Henry Tye , Yang Zhang

Scattering amplitudes in $d+2$ dimensions can be expressed in terms of a conformal basis, for which the S-matrix behaves as a CFT correlation function on the celestial $d$-sphere. We explain how compact expressions for the full tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Tim Adamo , Lionel Mason , Atul Sharma