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We compute scalar three-point celestial amplitudes involving two and three massive scalars. The three-point coefficient of celestial amplitudes with two massive scalars contains a hypergeometric function, and the one with three massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Reiko Liu , Wen-Jie Ma

Massless scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime can be Mellin transformed to correlation functions on the celestial sphere at null infinity called celestial amplitudes. We study various properties of massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Dhritiman Nandan , Anders Schreiber , Anastasia Volovich , Michael Zlotnikov

We present the first computation of three-point celestial amplitudes in Minkowski space of massless scalars, photons, gluons, and gravitons. Such amplitudes were previously considered to be zero in the literature because the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Chi-Ming Chang , Wen-Jie Ma

We compute scattering amplitudes involving one massive scalar and two, three, or four gravitons. We show that when the conformal dimension of the massive scalar is set to zero, the resulting celestial correlators depend {\it only} on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-03 Adam Ball , Shounak De , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

Celestial holography provides a promising avenue to studying bulk scattering in flat spacetime from the perspective of boundary celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). A key ingredient in connecting the two sides is the celestial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Hongliang Jiang

We explore celestial amplitude corresponding to $2d$ bulk $\mathcal{S}$-matrix. We consider scalar particles with identical mass and show that the celestial amplitude becomes the fourier transform of the $2d$ $\mathcal{S}$-matrix written in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-16 Sarthak Duary

In celestial conformal field theory (CCFT), the 4d massless scalars are represented by 2d conformal operators with conformal dimensions $h=\bar{h}=(1+i\lambda)/2$. The Mellin transform of 4d massless scalar amplitudes gives the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-06 Wei Fan

In this paper, we study celestial amplitudes of Goldstone bosons and conformal soft theorems. Motivated by the success of soft bootstrap in momentum space and the important role of the soft limit behavior of tree-level amplitudes, our goal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-02 Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Jaroslav Trnka , Petr Vasko

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

Scattering amplitudes in $d+2$ dimensions can be recast as correlators of conformal primary operators in a putative holographic CFT$_d$ by working in a basis of boost eigenstates instead of momentum eigenstates. It has been shown previously…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-15 Prahar Mitra

We show that two- and three-point celestial (C)CFT$_{d-1}$ amplitudes can be directly obtained from correlation functions in a unitary Lorentzian CFT$_d$ on $\mathbb{R}\times S^{d-1}$. The recipe involves a rescaling of the operators,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Leonardo Pipolo de Gioia , Ana-Maria Raclariu

The all-loop resummation of SU$(N)$ gauge theory amplitudes is known to factorize into an IR-divergent (soft and collinear) factor and a finite (hard) piece. The divergent factor is universal, whereas the hard function is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-14 Hernán A. González , Francisco Rojas

The soft limits of scattering amplitudes have been extensively studied due to their essential role in the computation of physical observables in collider physics. The universal factorisation that occurs in these kinematic limits has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Tristan McLoughlin , Andrea Puhm , Ana-Maria Raclariu

In celestial holography, four-dimensional scattering amplitudes are considered as two-dimensional conformal correlators of a putative two-dimensional celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). The simplest way of converting momentum space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

In this paper, we study the four-point celestial leaf amplitudes of massless scalar and MHV gluon scattering. These leaf amplitudes are non-distributional decompositions of the celestial amplitudes associated with a hyperbolic foliation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-21 Raju Mandal , Sagnik Misra , Partha Paul , Baishali Roy

We start by constructing a conformally covariant improvement of the celestial light transform which keeps track of the mixing between incoming and outgoing states under finite Lorentz transformations in $\mathbb{R}^{2,2}$. We then compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Carmen Jorge-Diaz , Sabrina Pasterski , Atul Sharma

Celestial amplitudes are multiple Mellin transforms w.r.t. conformal dimensions. For arbitrary multiplicity $n$ of massless states in sufficiently high space--time dimension $D$ we perform all Mellin integrations and find an associahedron…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Jin Dong , Stephan Stieberger

Both celestial and momentum space amplitudes in four dimensions are beset by divergences resulting from spacetime translation and sometimes scale invariance. In this paper we consider a (linearized) marginal deformation of the celestial CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Eduardo Casali , Walker Melton , Andrew Strominger

Carrollian holography is a framework for flat space holography, suggesting that gravity in asymptotically flat spacetime in $D$ dimensions is dual to a conformal Carrollian field theory in $D - 1$ dimensions living at null infinity. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 Harshal Kulkarni , Romain Ruzziconi , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant

The functional structure of celestial amplitudes as constrained by Poincar\'e symmetry is investigated in $2,3,$ and $4$-point cases for massless external particles of various spin, as well as massive external scalars. Functional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-10 Y. T. Albert Law , Michael Zlotnikov
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