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We show that the Mellin transform of an $n$-point tree level MHV gluon scattering amplitude, also known as the celestial amplitude in pure Yang-Mills theory, satisfies a system of $(n-2)$ linear first order partial differential equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh

We apply the solution to the recursion relation for the double-off-shell quark current to the problem of computing one loop amplitudes with an arbitrary number of gluons. We are able to compute amplitudes for photon-gluon scattering,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Gregory Mahlon

We review recent developments for the calculation of Born amplitudes in QCD. This includes the computation of gluon helicity amplitudes from MHV vertices and an approach based on scalar propagators and a set of three- and four-valent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Christian Schwinn , Stefan Weinzierl

In the high-energy limit, we compute the gauge-invariant three-parton forward clusters, which in the BFKL theory constitute the tree parts of the NNLO impact factors. In the triple collinear limit, we obtain the polarized double-splitting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Vittorio Del Duca , Alberto Frizzo , Fabio Maltoni

We compute the four-quark plus three-gluon and six-quark plus one-gluon tree level amplitudes using on-shell recursion relations. They are needed for the calculation of the 5-jet cross-section at the Born level, and constitute an essential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel de Florian , Jose Zurita

The efficient computation of color-summed QCD amplitudes at high parton multiplicities remains a central challenge for precision collider predictions. Existing approaches using trace, color-flow, or adjoint bases suffer from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-31 Oskar Bolinder , Rikkert Frederix , Malin Sjodahl

In the maximally-helicity-violating (MHV) configuration, tree-level single-trace Einstein-Yang-Mills (EYM) amplitude with one and two gravitons have been shown to satisfy a formula where each graviton splits into a pair of collinear gluons.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-03 Zhirun Li , Yi-Jian Du

A prescription is presented to construct manifestly gauge invariant tree-level scattering amplitudes with one or two off-shell initial-state gluons for processes with arbitrary particles in the final state, which allows for calculations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-09 A. van Hameren

We present MHV-rules for constructing perturbative amplitudes for a Higgs boson and an arbitrary number of partons. We give explicit expressions for amplitudes involving a Higgs and three negative helicity partons and any number of positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-13 S. D. Badger , E. W. N. Glover , Valentin V. Khoze

We compute the complete one-loop corrections to the simplest class of QCD gluon amplitudes, those with two color-adjacent opposite-helicity external particles. We present results for an arbitrary number of external legs. The computation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Darren Forde , David A. Kosower

Results for four-, five-, and six-parton tree amplitudes for massive quark-antiquark scattering with gluons are calculated using the recursion relations of Britto, Cachazo, Feng, and Witten. The required diagrams are generated using shifts…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Anthony Hall

We present a conjecture for the $n$-gluon one-loop amplitudes with maximal helicity violation. The conjecture emerges from the powerful requirement that the amplitudes have the correct behavior in the collinear limits of external momenta.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , G. Chalmers , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

We derive compact analytical formulae for all tree-level color-ordered gauge theory amplitudes involving any number of external gluons and up to three massless quark-anti-quark pairs. A general formula is presented based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-24 Lance J. Dixon , Johannes M. Henn , Jan Plefka , Theodor Schuster

We discuss the amplitudes describing N-gluon scattering in type I superstring theory, on a disk world-sheet. After reviewing the general structure of amplitudes and the complications created by the presence of a large number of vertices at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

We evaluate all split helicity gluon tree amplitudes in open twistor string theory. We show that these amplitudes satisfy the BCFW recurrence relations restricted to the split helicity case and, hence, that these amplitudes agree with those…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-10 Louise Dolan , Peter Goddard

Using the helicity formalism, we compute the contribution of a quark-antiquark pair to the tree-level multigluon amplitudes in the high-energy limit. The $\bar{q}\, q$-pair production is absent in the leading-log formalism, but contributes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Vittorio Del Duca

We present the one-loop QCD amplitudes for two external massless quarks and three external gluons ($\bar{q}qggg$). This completes the set of one-loop amplitudes needed for the next-to-leading-order corrections to three-jet production at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

An efficient numerical algorithm to evaluate one-loop amplitudes using tensor integrals is presented. In particular, it is shown by explicit calculations that for ordered QCD amplitudes with a number of external legs up to 10, its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-11 A. van Hameren

We consider a Higgs boson coupled to gluons via the five-dimensional effective operator H Tr G_{munu}G^{munu} produced by considering the heavy top quark limit of the one-loop coupling of Higgs and gluons in the standard model. We treat H…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-21 S. D. Badger , E. W. N. Glover , Kasper Risager

Using newly proposed BCF/BCFW recursion relations, compact formulas are obtained for tree-level n-gluon amplitudes of helicity structure --++...+. We then make an extension of these recursion relations to include fermions of multi-flavors,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mingxing Luo , Congkao Wen