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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-09 Claude Duhr , Aniruddha Venkata , Chi Zhang

In this letter, we propose a stringy model for $n$-point tree-level form factor with the off-shell operator in the scalar and gluon theories, from the bosonic string disk amplitude: $n$ open string states and $1$ closed string state scatter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-14 Qu Cao

The perturbative approach to quantum field theories has made it possible to obtain incredibly accurate theoretical predictions in high-energy physics. Although various techniques have been developed to boost the efficiency of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Selomit Ramirez-Uribe , Roger J. Hernandez-Pinto , German Rodrigo , German F. R. Sborlini , William J. Torres Bobadilla

Scattering equations for tree-level amplitudes are viewed in the context of string theory. As a result of the comparison we are led to define a new dual model which coincides with string theory in both the small and large $\alpha'$ limit,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 N. E. J Bjerrum-Bohr , P. H. Damgaard , P. Tourkine , P. Vanhove

We investigate the tree-level S-matrix in gauge theories and open superstring theory with several soft particles. We show that scattering amplitudes with two or three soft gluons of non-identical helicities behave universally in the limit,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-31 Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen , Michael Zlotnikov

In this note we study tree-level scattering amplitudes of gravitons under a natural deformation which in the large $z$ limit can be interpreted either as a $k$-hard-particle limit or as a $(n-k)$-soft-particle limit. When $k=2$ this becomes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-02 Freddy Cachazo , Pablo Leon

Pion scattering amplitudes were recently found to vanish on specific kinematic loci, and to factorise close to these loci into a product of two lower-point amplitudes of an extended theory. We propose a diagrammatic representation of pion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-31 Yang Li , Tianzhi Wang , Tomáš Brauner , Diederik Roest

We review different notions of cuts appearing throughout the literature on scattering amplitudes. Despite similar names, such as unitarity cuts or generalized cuts, they often represent distinct computations and distinct physics. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-09 Ruth Britto , Claude Duhr , Holmfridur S. Hannesdottir , Sebastian Mizera

Scattering amplitudes with spinning particles are shown to decompose into multiple copies of simple building blocks to all loop orders, which can be used to efficiently reduce these amplitudes to sums over scalar integrals. Absence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-28 Rutger H. Boels , Qingjun Jin , Hui Luo

In this paper, we study a novel behavior developed by certain tree-level scalar scattering amplitudes, including the biadjoint, NLSM, and special Galileon, when a subset of kinematic invariants vanishes without producing a singularity. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Freddy Cachazo , Nick Early , Bruno Umbert

Scattering amplitudes connect theoretical descriptions to experimental predictions. Low energy terms of the scattering amplitude tend to factorize from the high energy. Different methods have already been established to understand the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-09 F. A. Andriantsarafara , A. N. Rasoanaivo

Following an argument advanced by Feynman, we consider a method for obtaining the effective action which generates the sum of tree diagrams with external physical particles. This technique is applied, in the unbroken \lambda \phi^4 theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Fernando T Brandt , Josif Frenkel

We compute the imaginary parts of genus-one string scattering amplitudes. Following Witten's $i\varepsilon$ prescription for the integration contour on the moduli space of worldsheets, we give a general algorithm for computing unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Lorenz Eberhardt , Sebastian Mizera

Very recently in arXiv:0705.0303 Alday and Maldacena gave a string theory prescription for computing (all) planar amplitudes in N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory at strong coupling using the AdS/CFT correspondence. These amplitudes are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven Abel , Stefan Forste , Valentin V. Khoze

Recently a new formulation for scattering amplitudes in Tr($\Phi^3$) theory has been given based on simple combinatorial ideas in the space of kinematic data. This allows all-loop integrated amplitudes to be expressed as ''curve integrals''…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Carolina Figueiredo , Hadleigh Frost , Giulio Salvatori

Scattering amplitudes are expected to admit a factorised structure in special kinematic limits, such as the Regge, soft and collinear limits. However, less is known about the precise mechanisms through which factorisation of $n$-particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 Claude Duhr , Einan Gardi , Sebastian Jaskiewicz , Jonas Lübken , Leonardo Vernazza

Tree-level scattering amplitudes for a scalar particle coupled to an arbitrary number N of photons and a single graviton are computed. We employ the worldline formalism as the main tool to compute the irreducible part of the amplitude,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-04 Naser Ahmadiniaz , Filippo Maria Balli , Olindo Corradini , José Manuel Dávila , Christian Schubert

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

Recent work has uncovered a connection between the symbol letters of general massless scattering and (permutations of) cluster variables of partial flag varieties. In this paper we explore the cluster adjacency of tree-level gluon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Shruti Paranjape , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich , He-Chen Weng

Scattering amplitudes in planar super-Yang-Mills theory satisfy several basic physical and mathematical constraints, including physical constraints on their branch cut structure and various empirically discovered connections to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-05 Thomas Harrington , Marcus Spradlin