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The expansions of tree-level amplitudes for one theory into amplitudes for another theory, which have been studied in various recent literatures, exhibit hidden connections between different theories that are invisible in traditional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Shi-Qian Hu , Kang Zhou

We elaborate the two-fold simplex-like structures of tree amplitudes in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills (N=4 SYM), through its connection to a mathematical structure known as the positive Grassmannian. Exploiting the reduced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-23 Junjie Rao

The Ward identities for amplitudes at the tree level are derived from symmetries of the corresponding classical dynamical systems. The results are applied to some 2 into n amplitudes.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Joanna Domienik , Piotr Kosinski

We conjecture that the leading two-derivative tree-level amplitudes for gluons and gravitons can be derived from gauge invariance together with mild assumptions on their singularity structure. Assuming locality (that the singularities are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Laurentiu Rodina , Jaroslav Trnka

This note study the soft behavior of Yang-Mills (YM) and bi-adjoint scalar (BAS) amplitudes at tree level, by using transmutation operators proposed by Cheung, Shen and Wen. By acting such transmutation operators to gravity amplitudes in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-18 Fang-Stars Wei

The momentum amplituhedron is a positive geometry encoding tree-level scattering amplitudes in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills directly in spinor-helicity space. In this paper we classify all boundaries of the momentum amplituhedron…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Livia Ferro , Tomasz Lukowski , Robert Moerman

We prove that soft theorems uniquely fix scattering amplitudes in a wide range of theories, including Yang-Mills, gravity, the non-linear sigma model, Dirac-Born-Infeld, dilaton effective theories, extended theories like NLSM$\oplus \phi^3$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-27 Laurentiu Rodina

Yang-Mills tree-level amplitudes contain singularities of codimension one like collinear and multi-particle factorizations, codimension two such as soft limits, as well as higher codimension singularities. Traditionally, BCFW-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-28 Sayeh Rajabi

We initiate a systematic study of amplitudes with massive external particles on the Coulomb-branch of N=4 super Yang Mills theory: 1) We propose that (multi-)soft-scalar limits of massless amplitudes at the origin of moduli space can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Nathaniel Craig , Henriette Elvang , Michael Kiermaier , Tracy Slatyer

Recently a new recursion relation for tree-level gluon amplitudes in gauge theory has been discovered. We solve this recursion to obtain explicit formulas for the closed set of amplitudes with arbitrarily many positive and negative helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Ruth Britto , Bo Feng , Radu Roiban , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We describe a new approach to understanding the origins of recently discovered "hidden zeros" and "smooth splitting" of tree-level amplitudes in $\text{Tr}\phi^3$, Non-Linear Sigma Model (NLSM), Yang-Mill-Scalar (YMS) and the special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Callum R. T. Jones , Shruti Paranjape

We consider the tree-level scattering amplitudes in the NS-NS (Neveu-Schwarz) massless sector of closed superstrings in the case where one external state becomes soft. We compute the amplitudes generically for any number of dimensions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-04 Paolo Di Vecchia , Raffaele Marotta , Matin Mojaza

We derive new amplitudes relations revealing a hidden unity among wide-ranging theories in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. Our results rely on a set of Lorentz invariant differential operators which transmute physical tree-level scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Clifford Cheung , Chia-Hsien Shen , Congkao Wen

We describe a new set of public, self-contained, and versatile computational tools for the investigation, manipulation, and evaluation of tree-level amplitudes in pure (super)Yang-Mills and (super)Gravity, $\phi^p$-scalar field theory, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily

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 explicitly present all coupling conditions required for tree-level unitarity (tree unitarity) in theories with a finite number of massive and massless particles of spin up to 1. They allow us to diagnose tree unitarity of a system using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Jaehoon Jeong , Pyungwon Ko , Yu-Hui Zheng

We propose a new bottom up method to construct tree amplitudes of non-linear sigma model (NLSM) and special Galileon theory (SG), based on assuming the universality of soft behaviors and the double copy structure. We extend the on-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou

We study tree-level celestial amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory -- Mellin transforms of multi-gluon scattering amplitudes that convert them into the correlators of conformal primary fields on two-dimensional celestial sphere. By using purely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Tomasz R. Taylor

We consider the tree amplitudes of production of $n_2$ scalar particles by $n_1$ particles of another kind, where both initial and final particles are at rest and on mass shell, in a model of two scalar fields with $O(2)$ symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. V. Libanov , V. A. Rubakov , S. V. Troitsky

We study effective actions for simultaneous breaking of space-time and internal symmetries. Novel features arise due to the mixing of Goldstone modes under the broken symmetries which, in contrast to the usual Adler's zero, leads to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-04 Massimo Bianchi , Andrea L. Guerrieri , Yu-tin Huang , Chao-Jung Lee , Congkao Wen