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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 compute the disk amplitude of three closed strings in the pure spinor formalism. Among others, this amplitude probes tree-level gravitational interactions in the presence of Dp-branes. After disentangling holomorphic and anti-holomorphic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Andreas Bischof , Michael Haack , Stephan Stieberger

Explicit expressions for one-loop five supergraviton scattering amplitudes in both type II superstring theories are determined by making use of the pure spinor formalism. The type IIB amplitude can be expressed in terms of a doubling of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael B. Green , Carlos R. Mafra , Oliver Schlotterer

The full two-loop amplitudes for five massless states in Type~II and Heterotic superstrings are constructed in terms of convergent integrals over the genus-two moduli space of compact Riemann surfaces and integrals of Green functions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-06 Eric D'Hoker , Carlos R. Mafra , Boris Pioline , Oliver Schlotterer

The low-energy limit of the four-point 3-loop amplitude (including its overall coefficient) is computed in both type IIA and IIB superstring theories using the pure spinor formalism. The result is shown to agree with the prediction of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Humberto Gomez , Carlos R. Mafra

We extend our analysis of the soft behaviour of string amplitudes with massive insertions to closed strings at tree level (sphere). Relying on our previous results for open strings on the disk and on KLT formulae we check universality of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Massimo Bianchi , Andrea L. Guerrieri

We evaluate in great detail one-loop four-graviton field theory amplitudes in pure N=4 D=4 supergravity. The expressions are obtained by taking the field theory limits of (4,0) and (2,2) space-time supersymmetric string theory models. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Piotr Tourkine , Pierre Vanhove

We explicitly compute the (NS) sector conventional type-I superstring tree-level amplitudes at five points after compactifying to 4-D, express the QFT building block in the helicity basis, and give several attempts towards arbitrary $n$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-19 Chen Huang

We study the soft behavior of string scattering amplitudes at three level with massless and massive external insertions, relying on different techniques to compute 4-points amplitudes respectively with open or closed strings.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-15 Massimo Bianchi , Andrea L. Guerrieri

The hybrid formalism for the superstring is used to compute one-loop amplitudes with an arbitrary number of external d=4 supergravity states. These one-loop N-point amplitudes are expressed as Koba-Nielsen-like formulas with manifest d=4…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Nathan Berkovits , Brenno Carlini Vallilo

We give a simple prescription for computing, in the framework of the bosonic string theory, off-shell one-loop amplitudes with any number of external massless particles, both for the open and for the closed string. We discuss their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Cappiello , R. Marotta , R. Pettorino , F. Pezzella

Massless type IIB superstring amplitudes are organized according to the number of external states and their ${\mathrm U}(1)$ charge under the R-symmetry of type IIB supergravity. In this work, we analyze the low-energy expansion of one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Emiel Claasen , Mehregan Doroudiani

As a check of the first massive integrated vertex operator in the pure spinor formalism constructed in arXiv:1802.04486, we compute the one loop 2-point function of the stable non-BPS massive states in SO(32) heterotic string theory. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-13 Sitender Pratap Kashyap , Mritunjay Verma

We start a systematic investigation of the one-loop mass corrections to (super-)string massive higher-spin states. While the imaginary part of the relevant amplitudes are finite, being related to the width of the decay of the states into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 Massimo Bianchi , Maurizio Firrotta , Lorenzo Grimaldi

We calculate the bosonic string one-loop three- and four-point amplitudes to quadradic order in momentum, and we read off the one-loop low-energy two-derivative effective action for the massless fields, $S_{eff}$. Treating the renormalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-26 Sabine Harribey , Dimitrios Tsimpis

We evaluate one-loop open-string amplitudes at finite $\alpha'$ for the first time. Our method involves a deformation of the integration contour over the modular parameter $\tau$ to a fractal contour introduced by Rademacher in the context…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 Lorenz Eberhardt , Sebastian Mizera

We present a prescription for computing the tree-level two-point amplitude of closed strings in the pure spinor superstring formalism, thereby completing the analysis of such superstring amplitudes. The construction relies on fixing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Sitender Pratap Kashyap

We evaluate the one-loop four-graviton scattering amplitude in type-II superstring theory exactly in $\alpha'$. This result is achieved by combining physical insights into the $i\varepsilon$ prescription in string theory with a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Marco Maria Baccianti , Lorenz Eberhardt , Sebastian Mizera

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

We discuss relations between closed and open string amplitudes at one-loop. While at tree-level these relations are known as Kawai-Lewellen-Tye (KLT) and/or double copy relations, here we investigate how such relations are manifested at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-03 S. Stieberger