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In this lecture we summarize recent calculations pointing to the possible ultraviolet finiteness of N = 8 supergravity in four dimensions. We outline the modern unitarity method, which enables multiloop calculations in this theory and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-02 Z. Bern , J. J. M. Carrasco , H. Johansson

We prove that all tree-level amplitudes in pure (super-)gravity can be expressed as term-wise, gauge-invariant double-copies of those of pure (super-)Yang-Mills obtained via BCFW recursion. These representations are far from unique: varying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-07 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Nikhil Kalyanapuram , Kokkimidis Patatoukos , Michael Plesser , Yaqi Zhang

We demonstrate that loop integrands of (super-)gravity scattering amplitudes possess surprising properties in the ultraviolet (UV) region. In particular, we study the scaling of multi-particle unitarity cuts for asymptotically large momenta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 Alex Edison , Enrico Herrmann , Julio Parra-Martinez , Jaroslav Trnka

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

Lecture notes on Poincar\'e-invariant scattering amplitudes and tree-level recursion relations in spinor-helicity formalism. We illustrate the non-perturbative constraints imposed over on-shell amplitudes by the Lorentz Little Group, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-30 Andrea Marzolla

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 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 examine a unitarity of a particular higher-derivative extension of general relativity in three space-time dimensions, which has been recently shown to be equivalent to the Pauli-Fierz massive gravity at the linearized approximation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-18 Masashi Nakasone , Ichiro Oda

In unitarity cut method, compact input of on-shell tree level amplitudes is crucial to simplify calculations. Although BCFW on-shell recursion relation gives very compact tree level amplitudes, they usually contain spurious poles. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Bo Feng , Gang Yang

Recently it has been shown that in gauge theories amplitudes to any perturbation order can be obtained by glueing together simple three-point on-shell amplitudes. These three-point amplitudes in turn are fixed by locality and Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-04 M. Maniatis

We analyse the high-energy behavior of tree-level graviton Compton amplitudes for particles of mass m and arbitrary spin, concentrating on a combination of forward amplitudes that will be unaffected by eventual cross- couplings to other,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Cucchieri , S. Deser , M. Porrati

We study the gravity-mediated scattering of scalar fields based on a parameterisation of the Lorentzian quantum effective action. We demonstrate that the interplay of infinite towers of spin zero and spin two poles at imaginary squared…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 Tom Draper , Benjamin Knorr , Chris Ripken , Frank Saueressig

Tree-level gravitational amplitudes satisfy an infinite hierarchy of soft factorization theorems. The existence of these theorems has been recently linked with the existence of an infinite tower of asymptotic symmetries. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-17 Samim Akhtar

In recent years, the BCFW construction provided a very powerful tool for computing scattering amplitudes as well as it shed light on the perturbation theory structure. In this talk, we discuss the long-standing issue of the boundary term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Paolo Benincasa

We construct two and three-line shifts for tree-level amplitude with massless and/or massive particles, and provide a method to construct general multi-line shifts for all masses. We choose the massless-massive BCFW shift from these shifts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Chao Wu , Shou-Hua Zhu

We revisit gauge anomalies from the purely on-shell perspective. We argue that violation of anomaly cancellation conditions manifests as a breakdown of collinear factorization. We explicitly construct one-loop 5-point amplitudes with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-04 Edoardo Alviani , Adam Falkowski

We exploit the tree level bosonic 4-particle scattering amplitudes in D=11 supergravity to construct the bosonic part of a linearized supersymmetry-, coordinate- and gauge-invariant. By differentiation, this invariant can be promoted to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Domenico Seminara

Using only general features of the S-matrix and quantum field theory, we prove by induction the Kawai-Lewellen-Tye relations that link products of gauge theory amplitudes to gravity amplitudes at tree level. As a bonus of our analysis, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-13 N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Poul H. Damgaard , Bo Feng , Thomas Sondergaard

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 compute the tree level 4-particle bosonic scattering amplitudes in D=11 supergravity. By construction, they are part of a linearized supersymmetry-, coordinate- and 3-form gauge-invariant. While this on-shell invariant is nonlocal,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Deser , D. Seminara