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We show that a natural spinor-helicity formalism that can describe massive scattering amplitudes exists in $D=6$ dimensions. This is arranged by having helicity spinors carry an index in the Dirac spinor {\bf 4} of the massive little group,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Rishabh Jha , Chethan Krishnan , K. V. Pavan Kumar

Scattering amplitudes of gluons coupled with a pair of massive scalars, so-called massive scalar amplitudes, provide the simplest yet physically useful examples of massive amplitudes. In this paper we construct an S-matrix functional for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Yasuhiro Abe

Over the past year, the "scalar-scaffolding" formalism has revealed a number of new features of gluon amplitudes. In this paper, we leverage these developments to study two distinct but related questions, linked by the scaffolding statement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Jeffrey V. Backus , Carolina Figueiredo

We compute the three-loop four-gluon scattering amplitude in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, including its full color dependence. Our result is the first complete computation of a non-planar four-particle scattering amplitude to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-26 Johannes M. Henn , Bernhard Mistlberger

It is shown how tree-level multi-gluon helicity amplitudes with an arbitrary number of off-shell external gluons can be calculated via BCFW recursion. Compact expressions for helicity amplitudes for scattering processes of three and four…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 A. van Hameren

Recently, Bern, Carrasco and Johansson conjectured dual identities inside the gluon tree scattering amplitudes. In this paper, we use the properties of the heterotic string and open string tree scattering amplitudes to refine and derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-21 S. -H. Henry Tye , Yang Zhang

The spectrum of coherent gluon radiation from a quark-anti-quark pair experiencing multiple scatterings within a coloured medium is central for understanding in-medium parton cascades. Despite its foundational importance, current results…

We study gluon scattering amplitudes/Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling by calculating the area of the minimal surfaces in AdS_3 based on the associated thermodynamic Bethe ansatz system. The remainder function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-25 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Katsushi Ito , Kazuhiro Sakai , Yuji Satoh

In this thesis massive higher derivative gravity theories are analyzed in some detail. One-particle scattering amplitude between two covariantly conserved sources mediated by a graviton exchange is found at tree-level in $D$ dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-01 Ibrahim Gullu

We calculate one loop scattering amplitudes for arbitrary number of positive helicity on-shell gluons and one off-shell gluon treated within the quasi-multi Regge kinematics. The result is fully gauge invariant and possesses the correct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-05 Etienne Blanco , Andreas van Hameren , Piotr Kotko , Krzysztof Kutak

We present the analytic form of the two-loop five-gluon scattering amplitudes in QCD for a complete set of independent helicity configurations of external gluons. These include the first analytic results for five-point two-loop amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-06 S. Abreu , J. Dormans , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , B. Page

Recently, spin-one wavefunctions in four dimensions that are conformal primaries of the Lorentz group SL(2,C) were constructed. We compute low-point, tree-level gluon scattering amplitudes in the space of these conformal primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 Sabrina Pasterski , Shu-Heng Shao , Andrew Strominger

I study constraints on fundamental physics emerging from consistency of a unitary, local and perturbative $S$-matrix in $4d$. For massless particles, some new constraints arising from consistent complex factorisation of $2\rightarrow 2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Timothy Trott

This paper presents a calculation of the four gravitons amplitude in (Anti)-de Sitter space, focusing specifically on external gravitons with positive helicity. To achieve this, we employ a generalized recursion method that involves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Soner Albayrak , Savan Kharel

We present a field theoretical proof of the conjectured KLT relation which states that the full tree-level scattering amplitude of gluons can be written as a product of color-ordered amplitude of gluons and color-ordered amplitude of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Yi-Jian Du , Bo Feng , Chih-Hao Fu

Pasterski, Shao and Strominger have recently proposed that massless scattering amplitudes can be mapped to correlators on the celestial sphere at infinity via a Mellin transform. We apply this prescription to arbitrary $n$-point tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Anders Schreiber , Anastasia Volovich , Michael Zlotnikov

We show that, given a two-dimensional realization of the celestial OPE in self-dual Yang-Mills, we can find a scalar source around which scattering amplitudes replicate correlation functions computed from the 2D `gluon' operators in a limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-02 Walker Melton , Sruthi A. Narayanan

The scattering amplitude for the longitudinal weak bosons is investigated in the SU(3) gauge-Higgs unification as a function of the scattering energy, the Wilson line phase \theta_H and the warp factor. The \theta_H-dependence of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 Naoyuki Haba , Yutaka Sakamura , Toshifumi Yamashita

We study all tree-level split helicity gluon amplitudes by using the recently proposed BCFW recursion relation and Hodges diagrams in ambitwistor space. We pick out the contributing diagrams and find that all of them can be divided into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-07 Bin Chen , Jun-Bao Wu

We calculate the spectrum of gluons sourced by the branching of an energetic quark in the presence of an inhomogeneous QCD medium, focusing on the soft radiation limit. We take into account multiple soft interactions between the partons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 João Barata , Xoán Mayo López , Andrey V. Sadofyev , Carlos A. Salgado