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We use the recently developed massive spinor-helicity formalism [1] of Arkani- Hamed et al. to propose a new class of recursion relations for tree-level amplitudes in gauge theories. These relations are based on a combined complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-13 Sourav Ballav , Arkajyoti Manna

We show how to apply the BCFW recursion relation to Feynman loop integrals with the help of the Feynman-tree theorem. We deconstruct in this way all Feynman diagrams in terms of on-shell subamplitudes. Every cut originating from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-18 M. Maniatis , C. M. Reyes

We review two novel techniques used to calculate tree-level scattering amplitudes efficiently: MHV diagrams, and on-shell recursion relations. For the MHV diagrams, we consider applications to tree-level amplitudes and focus in particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Andreas Brandhuber , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

Recently, an extension of the BCFW on-shell recursion relation suitable to compute gauge invariant scattering amplitudes with off-shell particles has been presented for Yang-Mills theories with fermions. In particular, 4- and 5-point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Mirko Serino

We complete the generalisation of the BCFW recursion relation to the off-shell case, allowing for the computation of tree level scattering amplitudes for full High Energy Factorisation (HEF), i.e. with both incoming partons having a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-03 Andreas van Hameren , Krzysztof Kutak , Mirko Serino

We derive the first ever on-shell recursion relations for amplitudes in effective field theories. Based solely on factorization and the soft behavior of amplitudes, these recursion relations employ a new rescaling momentum shift to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-03 Clifford Cheung , Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Chia-Hsien Shen , Jaroslav Trnka

We construct tree-level amplitude for massive particles using on-shell recursion relations based on two classes of momentum shifts: an all-line transverse shift that deforms momentum by its transverse polarization vector, and a massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-14 Yohei Ema , Ting Gao , Wenqi Ke , Zhen Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu , Ishmam Mahbub

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

Motivated by recent progress in calculating field theory amplitudes, we study applications of the basic ideas in these developments to the calculation of amplitudes in string theory. We consider in particular both non-Abelian and Abelian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-28 Rutger Boels , Kasper J. Larsen , Niels A. Obers , Marcel Vonk

We propose a recursion relation for tree-level scattering amplitudes in three-dimensional Chern-Simons-matter theories. The recursion relation involves a complex deformation of momenta which generalizes the BCFW-deformation used in higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Dongmin Gang , Yu-tin Huang , Eunkyung Koh , Sangmin Lee , Arthur E. Lipstein

We study "on-shell constructibility" of tree amplitudes from recursion relations in general 4-dimensional local field theories with any type of particles, both massless and massive. Our analysis applies to renormalizable as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Timothy Cohen , Henriette Elvang , Michael Kiermaier

The newly discovered splitting behavior of tree-level scattering amplitudes of particles and strings has been expressed in terms of currents containing one off-shell leg. In this work, we explain how to obtain on-shell representations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 Thales Azevedo , Humberto Gomez , Renann Lipinski Jusinskas

We construct an off-shell extension of cubic interaction vertices between massless bosonic Higher Spin fields on a flat background which can be obtained from perturbative bosonic string theory. We demonstrate how to construct higher quartic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-23 A. Fotopoulos , M. Tsulaia

Arkani-Hamed et. al. have recently shown that all tree-level scattering amplitudes in maximal supergravity exhibit exceptionally soft behavior when two supermomenta are taken to infinity in a particular complex direction, and that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen

We give a proof of BCFW recursion relations for all tree-level amplitudes of gravitons in General Relativity. The proof follows the same basic steps as in the BCFW construction and it is an extension of the one given for next-to-MHV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Paolo Benincasa , Camille Boucher-Veronneau , Freddy Cachazo

We construct a modified on-shell BCFW recursion relation to derive compact analytic representations of tree-level amplitudes in QED. As an application, we study the amplitudes of a fermion pair coupling to an arbitrary number of photons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Simon Badger , Johannes M. Henn

We investigate the application of the BCFW recursion relation to scattering amplitudes with one off-shell particle in a Yang-Mills theory with fermions. We provide a set of conditions of applicability of the BCFW recursion, stressing some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-15 A. van Hameren , M. Serino

Following~\cite{Arkani-Hamed:2017thz}, we derive a recursion relation by applying a one-parameter deformation of kinematic variables for tree-level scattering amplitudes in bi-adjoint $\phi^3$ theory. The recursion relies on properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-28 Song He , Qinglin Yang

One of the methods to calculate tree-level multi-gluon scattering amplitudes is to use the Berends-Giele recursion relation involving off-shell currents or off-shell amplitudes, if working in the light cone gauge. As shown in recent works…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Piotr Kotko , Mirko Serino , Anna M. Stasto

We derive pomeron vertex operators for bosonic strings and superstrings in the presence of D-branes. We demonstrate how they can be used in order to compute the Regge behavior of string amplitudes on D-branes and the amplitude of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-07 Angelos Fotopoulos , Nikolaos Prezas